$30,000,000 Deal for Sharing Video!

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I recently visited with a colleague of mine this past week, and it gave me an idea to blog about today’s topic. Most people have already heard about Youtube. You know where you can create a free account and post your own videos online. Here is a real life rags to riches story. Recently an unknown film producer produced a short four minute video costing around $300, in which robots where attacking a city and Hollywood found it. There soon was a bidding war for the video and finally Sam Raimi, the producer of "Spiderman" offered him a $30 million dollar deal. That’s right a 30 million dollar deal to collaborate with him to produce a new movie with robots of the future blowing up a city. If you the video above is not working, here is the link Panic Attack! or you can click on the picture above. So far this video has received over 5,500,000 hits. To learn more about the video, yahoo has posted a blog discussing more details of the future Hollywood blockbuster. Just visit http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzzlog-uruguay-to-hollywood.html So what kind of effect does this have on teachers?



If you have a video creation in which you are teaching a concept or idea you can post it on either http://www.youtube.com/ or http://www.teachertube.com/ Teachertube is a video sharing web site, in which teachers post their collection of videos. When you go to presentations for staff professional development, you know how the presenter usually has a funny video clip stressing an important point in his or her presentation. This is the site where most of those clips are coming from. So check out these new video sharing web sites and yes, you too can produce your own videos to share with the whole world.

Stay tune to next years blogs. I will be teaching you how to download videos from Youtube directly to your computer that you can use in presentations. I will also be reviewing the new flip camera by flip and sharing with you my exciting video about the Wintery Blizzard in West Central Texas I encountered, where I was stranded on the highway for 9 hours with thousands of other people. I will be showing you how to edit, crop pictures and take screen shots of your work in MS Word and soon I will be going step by step how to set up your own microphone in your classroom. I can't forget twitter, how to host your own web cast, and how to create your own podcast, as well as more picture sharing web sites. We have an exciting new year coming so stay tuned and we will see you next year. A lot of school districts have banned Youtube so I have posted the video here.

Tell the Whole World!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a talking picture worth? This week I am introducing a new web site that lets you turn any picture into a talking picture. That’s right, a regular picture into a talking picture. All you have to do is click on the picture to the left or click on the following link: http://www.blabberize.com/ Just like the picture says, it only takes 30 seconds. It's fast, easy and also fun to use. How would you like to use this tool to teach the students a concept or an idea from a talking picture?Your students or audience will love it. You can also put it in presentations or entertain your audience to make a point. Hope you have fun playing with it and we will see you next week.

Express Your Next List of Words With Creativity!

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As you know, we all give our students list of words, ides or concepts to remember. How can we find a unique and fun way for students to remember them? Well here is a cool web site that can turn your list of words or ideas into a format that represent them in a unique way. It allows us to express creativity by putting words all together to make unique vertical and horizontal designs called word clouds. You can use different colored fonts, layouts and colors in your own word cloud. After you have finished creating your word cloud then you can save it or print it or share it with others in their gallery. You can also see other word cloud creations that other people have made and shared with the world. To try it out for free you can visit http://www.wordle.net/ Hope you enjoy this site and we will see you next week.

Valuable Writing and Brain Based Resources!

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Today I will be sharing valuable writing and brain based research resources. My first web site has numerous writing resources you can use with your elementary writing class. The web site is located at: http://tinyurl.com/Writing201 I attended three full days of training in which most of the ideas came from Colleagues/Teachers who attended the New Jersey Writing Project and shared their wonderful ideas with us. Here is a list of the recommended books that were given to us at the NJ Writing Workshop.





The next web site has many brain based research resources that Eric Jensen shared with us at a Workshop in San Diego, California. Eric Jensen is a major leader in the brain based research area and speaks at numerous engagements every year. Also there are resources and ideas from another work shop I recently attended in Dallas, Texas. Most of the ideas can be used as topics for discussion with teachers to facilitate collaborative discussions in Professional Development settings. The web site is located at: http://tinyurl.com/ErikJensen Hope you enjoy these two resources. Here are a few of the resources that were mentioned in his workshop and I have already added these resources to my library.

Making Professional Movies with Digital Pictures/Videos for Free!

Today, I am going to share with you some valuable resources on how to make free movies or digital stories with your computer. There is a free software program the Microsoft has installed on all computers that have Windows and most people do not even know that this program is on their own computer. The name of this free program is called Windows Movie Maker (2).

So, what do you do with all those digital pictures and videos you have taken over the past holiday? You can turn them into a professional movie by using the program above. To find the program on your computers you click on Start -> Programs -> Accessories or you can find it in your Programs menu. Look for this picture to the left, when you are looking for it.
Now, I can go over the program and explain all the details of how to add pictures, add video, edit, clip, copy, cut, combine full-motion video, still images, narration, music, effects, titles, and transitions to create your own movies or you can learn it for free by viewing the following link through atomiclearning: http://www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2 When you click on the link you will watch professional videos on how to use the program step by step. You can watch from the comfort of your own home, then follow along step by step. Hope you enjoy the free tutorials (they are priceless). Here is another tutorial in which you can read step by step on how to use Windows Movie Maker (2): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx With this program you can also learn about Creating Digital Stories with Windows Movie Maker 2 Just click on the link above and it will take you to the University of Houston web site on Creating Digital Stories. Hope this helps and we will be sharing more and exciting and free info. in the future with you.

Samara - Professional Blogger Template

Title: Samara Blogger Template

Author: Newwpthemes.com

Category: Blogger Template

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Samara is a cool Blogger template, with nice RSS and Twitter icons on top. Designed in Wordpress by Newwpthemes.com and brought to Blogger by Klodian. Samara blogger template has some features, such as: 2 columns, right sidebar, simple, red, search box, top menu, personal, grunge.

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Power Point Resources - Free!

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Today, I am sharing a wonderful web site that has hundreds of pre-made power points you can use with your students. You can also download them to your computer or a flash drive/jump drive or a portable hard drive. Here is the web site. http://www.pppst.com/

If you are interested in creating your own blog, it is as easy as clicking on this link below to get the instructions. http://mikejmoran.typepad.com/visual_media/2009/11/creating-a-blog-using-blogger.html or you can click on this link below to see the document http://www.scribd.com/doc/22339943/Creating-a-Blog-in-Blogger If you want to download the power point or PDF then you can become a member of http://www.scribd.com/ for free and download all types of free informational documents. You can post any online document to share with the community. You can also charge for people to download your document and you keep 80% of profit. Happy exploring, and we hope you will enjoy the web sites. More valuable resources to come in the future, so stay tuned.

Welcome!

Welcome to my Technology blog. Here you will find valuable resources that you can utilize with your students. We look forward to collaborating with you online. Take care.

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Title: Box Tube Wordpress Template

Author: Dezzain(dot)Com

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Title: MobiPress - Premium Blogger Template

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Title: LightWord Professional Wordpress Template

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Title: Arras Theme Premium Wordpress Template

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After very long time I finaly created one new three column free business website template for my blog. I have been bussy with my other projects.

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Title: The Morning After Time

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Title: Blogging Pro Template

Author: Design Disease

Category: Blogger Template

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Title: World of WarCraft 2 Blogger

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Category: Blogger Template

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Title: Cuatro Magazine Premium Template

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Title: Revolution Church Blogger Template

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Natural Essence blogger template

Title: Natural Essence

Author: OZ

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This template has a woodsy nature feel to it yet it’s quite inviting for any sort of blog. Natural Essence is a 2 columns new Blogger template with brown as base color.

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World of WarCraft Wordpress Template

Title: World of WarCraft Wordpress Template

Author: TemplatePanic

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World of Warcraft Wordpress Theme, for game lover. This is a 3-column layout template. Featuring: Valid XHTML and Valid CSS, Widgets ready, bottom menu, Comment gravatar, related posts, recent comments and recent posts ready with no plugin needed. This template tested with wordpress 2.2 in Firefox, IE 7, Opera and Safar.

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Author: template panic

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Title: Reformasi - wordpress magazine style

Author: Sha from www.blogger-template.info

Category: magazine style, wordpress web 2.0 templates, free templates, web template, ads ready, premium template, professional template

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This template created by Sha. He made this template in such a way that seems like template on popular magazine website. Also with various ads space ready and some interest plugins give this template more profitable for your business web.
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Author: Deluxe Theme

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Pretty casino templates for wordpress CMS. With soft green and white for based color make this template look so calm. Also 125x125 ads ready on left sidebar.

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Title: Ads Theme

Author: EblogTemplate

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This is the best premium blogger template for your business blog that i can recommended to you. It’s a wonderful web 2.0 popular blog layout with some great built in ads spots (ads space) in header, 125x125 on sidebar, 468x60 ads on top content and also with more features.

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HamaSaki 1.6 Wordpress Templates

Title: Hamasaki 1.6

Author: Nurudin Jauhari

Category: wordpress web 2.0 theme, web 2.0 templates, magazine template, professional template, ads ready, widget ready, magazine style

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Revolution Life Style

Title: Revolution Life Style - web2.0 template

Author: Brian Gardner

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Revolution Life Style is a web 2.0 template for your blog, magazine style make this template look so professional. Also this theme is widget ready (wordpress version) and have three column, fixed width, white background colour, tan, teal, purple and more. You can get this template in two version, blogger version and wordpress version. Now you can Take Your Blog to a Higher Level !

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Title: Church Premium Wordpress Theme

Author: StudioPress

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Church is a professional themes for wordpress with 3-column, magazine style and Widget-ready.

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Title: Aspire - Blogger Template

Author: Info Creek

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Title: Naruto VS Sasuke

Author: www.SkinCorner.com

Category: blogger template, dark, orange, anime template, 3 column, naruto template, free templates

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Title: SoDeliciousBlack - web2.0

Author: www.web2themes.com

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Langit Blogger Theme

Title: Langit Blogger Template

Author: OZ

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GreenTech -Wordpress theme

Title: GreenTech

Author: DailyBlogTips.com

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