Quick and easy homework addition...

Just added this to your homework for this week:

Add your Second Life name to your page on this (the class) wiki

Something I should have thought of before...

Professor Avatar...

As we enter immersive gaming and virtual environments, I came across this article that I thought might be of interest:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/10/16/conway

Enjoy :-)

A General Kudo for everyone...

Just in the process of grading...just wanted to say a collective "Great Job" to everyone...

I've only been grading for about 3hrs now..."Sticky" homework assignments? :-)

Final due by 5.9...

Just a reminder as I don't yet know some of your topics/ideas for your final (I really should know by now).

Remember there is a page for the final at:
http://russl.pbwiki.com/Final

and a video explanation at:
http://librarysteve.com/598vids/finaltalk/finaltalk.html

If you've already emailed me/spoke with me you can disregard this post.

Free Social Media Tools for Educators

http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22456

Forwarded to my by Wally Hastings, visiting Professor at RU. Very nice article about Social sites...addresses a lot of the needs and wants of the educators among us.

TeacherTube

As I start to watch your screencasts (and re-watch some of your educational videos), I just wanted to make sure that you all knew about:

http://teachertube.com/

Not obligating anyone to anything, but a lot of your videos would be great additions to that site.

Great blog post on blog laws in the US...

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

From:
http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/

CIL08 Resources from the Conference

While not as good as "being here":

Blog Posts

Flickr

del.icio.us

SlideShare

enjoy...just don't too "lost" in everything...

CIL08 InfoTubey Awards

As we just finished the video content section of class, I thought you all would be interested in this:

http://www.infotubey.com/

I like 'em all, but the zombie one is really funny :-)

Prof Request

Hi all,

In order to make next week a little more manageable for me...

IF you finish this week's video work early please let me know via email so I can grade it early.

No obligation whatsoever, please take as much time as you like (well at least up to the deadline)...I'm just trying to reduce the amount of things I need to do while I'm at the conference and when I get back.

Thank you, Steve

Photoshop Online

https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html


not hugely robust, but integrates into Facebook...

Steve at CIL/ISE

From Sunday through Wednesday I'll be at the Computers in Libraries/Internet at Schools East conference in Arlington, VA.

On Monday I get the opportunity to present on Screencasting at Internet at Schools East, and will hopefully get more school library folks to incorporate screencasting into their library/school sites and teaching...after that, I'm taking some time to enjoy my favorite library conference (and to enjoy the experience with my Librarian wife, Kelly :-)

(I find it kind of interesting that I'm going to do a presentation on Screencasting the same week that you all will be learning Screencasting...didn't plan it that way...honest).

What this means is that you all are going to be "running the ship" next week...I'll check in as I can, but less than usual. If you have a "crisis" you can email me, but I'm not going to promise a quick return. I'll check in on Twitter when I can, but wireless is suppose to be spotty at the hotel/conference (which is ridiculous for a Tech conference...), and I won't even think of meebo'ing.

Please do your best to help each other when possible...twitter and meebo seems to be the best communication channels for help requests, but if you have other things set up that's great as well.

As always please let me know if you have any questions, Steve