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Professor Garfield Cyberbullying By Paws Incorporated is an iPad app to help kids learn about cyberbullying. Check it out. I have it on my iPad also if anyone wants to see what it looks like and doesn't have an iPad of their own. Many schools are getting them and it's possible you'll run into them in your schools.

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Undergraduate pre-service teachers' glogsters on Digital Citizenship (may load a little slowly)

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Collecting & Sharing Stock Photos

It is important when developing instructional materials to avoid potential copyright issues. One great way to do this is to take your own stock photos to save for future use. Think about things you might like to be able to post pictures of on a course website or use in a presentation. Science teachers might want a picture of a beaker or a lab or a tree, history teachers might want pictures from a museum, English teachers might want pictures to inspire poetry or writing projects, math teachers might want pictures that could be used to show how equations appear in real life like a half-built bridge or building, etc. You may want pictures of campus or the capitol or a pencil or backpack. Foreign language teachers may want to take some vocabulary pictures.

For example: Some random stock photos (I took most of these on UNL's campus on Thursday, June 14, 2012.)

I used picasaweb to store and organize my pictures so that I can also share them with others and post them as part of my professional teaching portfolio. Here's how I did it: (be sure to click on the photos if all you can see are little gray icons)

Start by logging into Picasa and clicking upload.

Name your album

Highlight and drag your images here

Click Ok at the bottom once it's done uploading

click on one of your picture and select add location

a map pops up where you can search for a place

zoom in and move the pin to exactly where you want to identify and click save location

click on the + tag symbol to the right of tags

type in some words that describe the picture to make it searchable (if you need to use a phrase or multiple words, use "quotes" around them)

Click on the title of the album at the top of the screen to go back to a full overview and choose "Actions" and them "album properties"

here you can change the title and description and other info but most importantly! check the privacy settings! You may choose "public on the web"; "Limited, anyone with the link"; or "Only you" depending on who you want to be able to see the album. If you wish to share it, choose one of the first two named options

save changes takes you back to the overview, now chose "captions"

this gives you an overview where you can tab through and create a caption for each photo

going back to the overview screen notice the options on the right

click on "link to this album" to get the link to share with others

#stock photos #photos #picasa #picasaweb #images #image #photo #web 2.0 #copyright #clipart #achievement hints

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Digital Citizenship - Friday 6/15/2012

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Yesterday I went to the Tech Edge Conference at UNL with the rest of my class and many current teachers. I found the conference fascinating but it was long. I enjoyed the examples that the keynote speaker used to connect his topic to real life. For example, his metaphor with The Wizard of Oz and...

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Today I learned some great tips and fun ideas about ways to incorporate technology in the classroom. The key note speaker encouraged us teachers and educators to get informed with the possibilities of technology. He wanted everyone to consider how they could incorporate more technology in whatever...

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Yesterday, I attended the TechEdge Conference at UNL. I did not necessarily think that I would learn that much, coming from a generation of technology, but I was much surprised to say the least. While I only attended two of the sessions, I found that both speakers were engaging and well educated...

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