We get the opportunity to learn iMovie this morning! Lucky people!! It is one of our favorite software packages to learn. This is a place where we are listing resources for the course for Educational Value as well as general How To's. Feel free to suggest additional resources to add to this blog posting. Have fun and learn a lot today.

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http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/podcast/PMPodcast.mp4
Paul Martin's iMovie about Podcasting for YOU!

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/sciencetg/ie/
iMovie in education

http://www.apple.com/support/imoviehd/
Apple iMovie HD Resource Page

http://www.apple.com/support/imoviehd/hottips/
Hot Tips for imovie hd from i life 06

http://www.apple.com/support/imoviehd/shortcuts/
keyboard shortcuts for iMovie HD

http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm
Digital Storytelling in the classroom with imovie

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/list.html
iMovies in K-12 Education from Springfield Public Schools

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/
Example iMovies from K-12 Education

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/
Apple Learning Interchange

http://connect.educause.edu/browse
Educause Connect

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Click Here to take Endnotes Workshop survey

Endnotes Web Site, this is a great starting point for all resources and support related to Endnotes.

UVM libraries Web Site about Endnote

Download the file to search UVM libraries in ENDNOTE here!

Enjoy EndNote. It is a very nice tool. (when it works correctly!!)

See us at the CTL Dr Is In if you need additional help.

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In preparation for our podcasting workshop on August 7th in 113T Waterman, Will and I decided to put together a resource page for the faculty and staff attending our workshop. This is a mixture of articles, how to's and ways to use podcasts in education. We hope you find these links useful.

Cheers,
Holly and Will

Podcasting Resources:

Articles:
Podcasts: Improving Quality and Accessibility, from the Journal

Legal Guide:
Podcasting Legal Guide by Creative Commons

Faculty Examples:

Charlie Rathbone's Wiki Space
Paul Martin's Podcast for YOU!

Websites:
Will Richardson's Blog, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
Poducate Me
Podcasting for Professors
Podcasting for Teachers
Yahoo Search Engine Podcasts Directory
Odeo.com, listen to a huge variety of podcasts for free
iTunesU
University of Vermont, iTunesU site

How to's:

Directions for making a podcast with Audicity or GarageBand by Yahoo
GarageBand tutorials, from the Apple website

Software:
GarageBand, by Apple Computer (comes pre-loaded with a Mac Computer)
Audacity, a free audio editing program
Odeo Studio, create your on free podcast with the easy Odeo Studio interface

RSS feed readers for Podcasting

Doppler, subscribe to RSS feeds for your favorite podcasts

Publish to UVM Zoo files (Web Access)

https://uvm.edu/files/

In addition, could you all please take a few moments to give us feedback by filling out our ONLINE SURVEY. Click Here to take survey THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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This image (an animated gif file) is from the Wikimedia Commons. It was featured as the "picture of the day" for March 14, 2006, and has been nominated as one of the finest images on the Wikimedia Commons.

The Wikimedia Commons is one of several sites that offer copyrighted material with internet and education friendly licensing terms. (The Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.) When you are browsing sites for images and other media, please read the copyright notices to see the usage terms. Refences:

Wikimedia Commons, Image:Steam_locomotive_work.gif, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Steam_locomotive_work.gif

Wikimedia Commons, Featured Pictures, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures

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Google Notebook is a Firefox (and IE) extention that creates a notepad at the bottom right of the browser. You can "cut and paste" information from the current webpage (text, images, links), insert tags, and store the information on your Google "page." The notebook can be private or public. Installing the Firefox extentions and then restarting the browser takes you to a startup tutorial page. After that, we're on.

Although it's branded "Google Labs", not "Google Beta", it feels more like betaware - some of the features are less than idea when compared to popular social network sites - or maybe I should just read the manual :).

[1] Google Notebook, for IE and FireFox, http://www.google.com/notebook

[2] Press release, "Sony delivers world's first full-function, pocket-sized PC", San Diego, May 16, 2006. http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/computer_peripheral/notebooks/release/22130.html

[3] Apple Website, Introducing the all-new MacBook, http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html

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Our recently released guidelines for online course development includes the requirement for a policy "quiz":

This should be a link to a quiz, located on the left navigation sidebar. The quiz contains two questions, including a link the UVM Academic Honesty Policy, as well as a brief paragraph stating the student's understanding of copyright law. The student must answer in agreement to both to pass the quiz.

Basically, the student must acknowledge the existence of the respective UVM policies. This is similar to those license agreements you must agree to before installing software on your computer (you do read them, right?).

We've provided this quiz as a file that you can import into your course. In addition, I've created a "screencast" showing how to import the quiz into your course. WebCT includes documentation for this as well.

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We've recently published the guidelines we use when developing online courses. While this document is geared toward those using WebCT to develop fully online courses, it should also be of interest to anyone planning an online addition to their traditional classroom experience. For more about WebCT at UVM, visit the WebCT@UVM gateway page, or the resources area of the CTL website.

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John sent me this great interactive game for learning colors. COLOR box : a color theory game looks kind of like tetris, but instead of focusing on shapes, the object of the game is to use the additive color system to combine colors of adjacent blocks.

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