A short video designed to help you get more out of your Web searches.

From Lee Lefever of the Commoncraft Show

Lee Lefever, "The Commoncraft Show," explains the premise behind various forms of social media, such as blogs or podcasts.

By Lee LeFever of the Commoncraft Show.

Christy Keeler is visiting faculty in education at University of Nevada.

Philosopher and technology guru Stephen Downes on how you can harness the power of the Internet for your own professional development (and apply in your teaching practice with students).

STUDIO 242 NOTE: A sample PowerPoint presentation by Laurence Lessig, who is well-known as a master of presentation.

LESSIG'S NOTE: This is a talk (ok, a long talk, ~30 minutes) about whether Google's Book Search project -- called "massive copyright infringement" by the American Association of Publishers, is "fair use"? It is. (less)

Stand Up comedy about how not to make Power Point presentations (less)

What is a podcast?jrhode8 min 14 sec - Jul 12, 2007Jason Rhode provides a brief introduction to the technology of podcasting and mentions a few of the instructional benefits and considerations for using this new medium for information delivery

Learn about this new, new social networking tool.

How to add a free iTunes podcast episode to your Blackboard course. Free podcast episodes are available from faculty at other institutions as well as major media outlets, such as NPR.

How to embed (paste) a YouTube video into your Blackboard course.

Stephen Downes, National Research Council in Canada, at a Taipei conference on eLearning and the open source concept.

UK researcher Graham Atwell discusses the impact of new technologies on learning; and the pervasiveness of learning in and out of the classroom.

Graham Attwell in the U.K. on ePortfolio purposes, development, and implementation.

http://www.ted.com Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. (less)

Using the Web 2.0 write up in Wikipedia this video is to help teach educators about Web 2.0 tools. (less)

An overview of Web 2.0 resources and helpful hints for integrating them into scholarly research and pedagogy, courtesy of USC's Holly Willis and Mark Marino.Holly Willis is a research assistant professor in the USC School of Cinematic Arts and director of academic programs for the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.Mark Marino is a lecturer in the Writing Program at the USC College of Letters, Arts & Science. (less)