TedCurran.net » Searching http://www.tedcurran.net Education Technology, Free Apps & Lifehacks for Teachers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:15:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger's guide http://www.tedcurran.net/2009/10/finding-copyright-friendly-images/ http://www.tedcurran.net/2009/10/finding-copyright-friendly-images/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:02:46 +0000 Ted Curran http://www.tedcurran.net/?p=260 Image via Wikipedia Flickr.com, Yahoo.com, and Google (and now Bing.com) can be great places to find images of just about anything under the sun. Unfortunately, many of the images you find are the intellectual property of someone else– so you … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
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Flickr.com, Yahoo.com, and Google (and now Bing.com) can be great places to find images of just about anything under the sun. Unfortunately, many of the images you find are the intellectual property of someone else– so you can’t include them with having to worry about being hauled up in copyright court.

Creative Commons to the rescue! Many bloggers know about the brilliant IP license which enables content creators (like the person who owns that picture you want) to allow their work to be distributed, modified, and even resold under a “some rights reserved” license. This frees bloggers to freely use the vast treasure of images, sounds, and multimedia on the internet to build and create something new. Add to the mix the vast libraries of public domain content available through a wikimedia license and you have a treasure trove of usable images.

I’m still waiting for “one free image search engine to rule them all”, but until then, I will have to settle for the best wiki collection of free image sources anywhere. Check out Copyright Friendly’s exhaustive list of great image resources for some gorgeous free images. As always, double-check to be sure that the images you are using are CC, public domain, or otherwise legal to include into your blog.

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]]> http://www.tedcurran.net/2009/10/finding-copyright-friendly-images/feed/ 2 Great Resources for FREE Software http://www.tedcurran.net/2009/04/great-resources-for-free-software/ http://www.tedcurran.net/2009/04/great-resources-for-free-software/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:04:00 +0000 Ted Curran http://www.tedcurran.net/blog/?p=150 Every time I get a new computer, I always visit these sites to stock up my computer with free goodies. Check it out! www.OpenSourceWindows.org www.OpenSourceMac.org www.osalt.com Pack.Google.com Labs.Google.com

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Every time I get a new computer, I always visit these sites to stock up my computer with free goodies. Check it out!
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]]> http://www.tedcurran.net/2009/04/great-resources-for-free-software/feed/ 0 Student Blogging= Easy Grading, Authentic Feedback and Review http://www.tedcurran.net/2008/09/student-blogging-easy-grading-authentic-feedback-and-review/ http://www.tedcurran.net/2008/09/student-blogging-easy-grading-authentic-feedback-and-review/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:13 +0000 Ted Curran http://teacherhax.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/student-blogging-easy-grading-authentic-feedback-and-review/ This semester, I had all of the students in my digital design class start a blog on either Blogger or Tumblr (.com) where they would be posting all of their work for my class. I then had them send me … Continue reading →

]]> This semester, I had all of the students in my digital design class start a blog on either Blogger or Tumblr (.com) where they would be posting all of their work for my class. I then had them send me the web address in an email so I could subscribe to it with a blog reader like Netvibes (or Google Reader, if you prefer). This allows me to look at a page full of student work like this:
From this screen, I can view any post on any student’s blog, and I can leave comments & grades on their work. I have already divided this screen by student class meeting, so I’m looking at only students in “C Block “right now. I can also make this screen public, so the students in my classes can view each other’s work and comment on it.

When I click into one student’s blog feed, it looks like this:

I can look at all of her posts in the Netvibes interface, and then I can click over to her blog if I want to leave her comments.

This week, we will be getting familiar with the grading rubric used to grade students’ work, and they will be applying it to one another’s work. They will be using this interface to give each other comments (constructive, I hope!) Wish me luck!

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