If you have not created an account using California K12 High Speed Network, you should. Educators with a California educational email account may sign up for a Calaxy account. After you have created an account you can upload videos, pictures, documents and podcasts. You may also create blogs and Moodle on-line classes. Visit the following link to create an account http://www.k12hsn.org/about/registration/index.php?cmd=mk&typ=usr

If you want to browse Calaxy click on this link:
http://www.k12hsn.org/calaxy/

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The University of South Florida has created the Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence for faculty development at USF. The Center will store audio and video podcasts that will support teaching and learning. This along with Lit2Go is a must visit for educators. To visit this site open iTunes, select iTunes U and then select University of South Florida. You may also use the search feature of iTunes by typing in “C21TE” to access the files or you may use this link - http://itunes.usf.edu/

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The Center for Social Media just posted a new video and PDF explaining how to use Fair Use in Education. The document "Code of Best Practices In Fair Use for Media Literacy Education" can be found at this site: - http://tinyurl.com/5oxerd

The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Edutopia, has now released videos that share success stories from educators in “the field”. These videos cover a wide range of topics such as: “Project Learning”, “Technology Integration”, and “Integrated Studies”. Click on this link to gain access to these videos.

Boston television station WGBH is offering the PBS series The Presidents for free on iTunes University. If you open iTunes and then look for iTunes U link on the left side of the website you will be able to browse the site for WGBH show. I am including a direct link to the first video on Franklin Roosevelt.

Are you interested in new music for your podcasts, presentations, and videos? Then check out Jamendo @ http://www.jamendo.com/en for a wide variety of Creative Commons music. Molly Large posted a blog about the site that gives an excellent description of the site. Here is a link to Molly’s blog post for additional information - http://dplc.ctap10.org/node/135.

I've just learned about Yahoo!'s new free service exclusively for teachers. It will let us create and share standards-based materials and connect to other teachers. You can learn more at http://teachers.yahoo.com.

The edZone requires an educational email address to create an account to use the tools available to post blogs, podcasts, documents, videos, images. The site is user-friendly and easy to navigate to the different areas of the site. The following is a description from the site:
“The California K-12 High Speed Network (K12HSN) is offering a comprehensive set of tools to support teaching and learning in California classrooms. This free suite of tools, edZone, currently includes blogging, videoconference scheduling and a file sharing system where educators can upload videos, podcasts, images and documents. EdZone is an excellent tool to share lesson ideas, upload student learning objects, disseminate best practices, and more! Make sure you take advantage of these free resources provided by the California K-12 High Speed Network and the California Department of Education.

EdZone will soon be expanded to include Instant Messaging, Moodle, Wikis, Social Networking, Moodle-an online course management system and other Web 2.0 tools to enhance today's classroom environment. Watch for these new tools in Summer 2008!”

Visit the following link to get started: http://www.k12hsn.org/edzone/

Need help understanding what RSS is all about, view the video from Common Craft. Here is the link - http://tinyurl.com/6m6b2h
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WGBH's Teachers’ Domain contains a free digital library with companion educators guides. These resources can be used for non-commercial, educational purposes only. Check these resources out at iTunes® University then click on the WGBH Teachers’ Domain link. Keep Up the Tech!!