Multimedia - Project CEP812

Creating an Online Community of digital learning resources

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Content from: http://teachertube.com/teachervision.php. TeacherVision content is organized by subject, grade and theme.  Theme pages feature cross-curricular lessons for every area of focus, making it simple for teachers to create a study unit that is inclusive and varied. Printable books are compilations of the best materials within every topic studied in today's classrooms.  The uniquely powerful mix of content is drawn from trusted educational associations and the world's best children's publishers, including the Council for Exceptional Children, Educators for Social Responsibility, Houghton Mifflin Company, the National Association for Music Education, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster, Inc., and the vast resources available within the Pearson family.

Site dedicated to sharing information related to the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom.

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Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues.

Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. We especially hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog. If you feel that you are a beginner and want some extra help, please click here to join the Beginner Group as soon as you've registered.

Using video and Web 2.0 technology to encourage dialogic instructional practices

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Video-Based Response & Revision: Dialogic Instruction Using Video and Web 2.0 … A Heintz, C Borsheim, S Caughlan, MM Juzwik, MB … – … Issues in Technology and …, 2010
This article documents the curricular decisions made by a teacher educator research team whose
guiding theoretical focus for intern practice is dialogic instruction. Over a 2-year sequence, teaching
interns used video and Web 2.0 technologies to respond critically to and revise their

Utilizing existing media components to create new multimedia content

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Finding free multimedia for your site from multimedia | CMS Report

I was just thinking the other day how nice it would be to find a list of places for free stock images that could be used to spice up things at my sites. Then comes along this article at Mashable, 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog. I love it when things work out this way.

Nothing makes a blog post more eye-catching than a great header image, but not all publishers have artistic talent. And even accomplished digital creatives often crave some found material to start from or work with in a project. Luckily for all of the above, sources abound for finding a compelling photo to grab your readers’ eyes and draw them in, or to locate fresh multimedia to remix.

Please feel free to add your own list of legitimate sources of free multimedia in the comments form below.