Kate Hart: Citing Sources: A Quick and Graphic Guide Academia has lots and lots and lots of systems in place for assuring that credit is always given where credit is due. If you're writing a paper, there are particular ways to cite internet sources-- even tweets and Facebook posts. But what about on the internet? We know we're supposed to cite sources, but a standardized system hasn't developed, and in the meantime, you could face a lawsuit if you steal someone else's work, even by accident. Does that mean you can't ever elaborate on someone else's ideas or repeat a little of what someone else said? *click to expand As always, a couple of notes: - Because of space/design limitations, I didn't include an important guideline: Never repost someone's article in its entirety. - Remember that in addition to credits, citations are there to help others track down information they need. - Media and academic sites have their own in-house rules, and so should you. However. Head over to Stacked for more posts about blogging ethics and best practices!
Automated Video Editing Site Makes Movie Magic Out of Raw Footage Devices proffering video capture are nearing ubiquity. Hence, so too are lackluster, unedited video clips. Magisto to the rescue. The Israel-based startup is launching to the public Tuesday with an automated video editing platform. Magisto's promise: Give us your unedited footage, and we'll give you a short movie that you can proudly show off to friends and family. In fact, that's nearly all there is to the site. Magisto is not for the artistically-inclined, obsess-over-every-detail video editor. "The average person doesn’t edit videos," says Magisto co-founder and CEO Oren Boiman. The startup is keeping mum on its secret sauce, but does say that its proprietary technology is designed to automatically find the best footage in your videos. Magisto's magic formula, from what we've seen, works impressively well — so well, we'd like to see the startup release mobile applications for quicker uploads, and remove its branding at the end of finished movies. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, adventtr
How Teachers Use Technology: The Latest Research Back in 2011, I wrote a post about the "New Digital Divide." Based on Pew Research data from 2011, it was apparent that, while many previously marginalized populations now had more access to the Internet, these populations were accessing the Internet mostly through mobile devices, which are limiting, especially when trying to build and create online or access job applications or opportunities. Just this past week, Pew released a new study called How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms. It explores how teachers use the Internet for their own professional learning, with their students and for communicating with families. Who's Connected and Who Isn't As a member of a large online community of educators through Twitter and other social media outlets, I know how much of an impact the Internet has had on educators and their classrooms across the world. Same Old Digital Divide
NoodleTools : MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian Bibliography Composer, Online Notecards 7 Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers Introducing new technology tools to your students or to your colleagues can become a frustrating exercise if you end up repeating the same step-by-step directions over and over again. Not only is it frustrating for you to repeat those directions, it can also be frustrating for the students who want to go ahead but can't because you're waiting until everyone is on the same page. One way to avoid that is to create annotated screen captures of the tools you're introducing. Another way to avoid repeating directions over and over again is to creating screencast videos in which you explain each step of the process. The tool that I use most often of creating annotated screen capture images is Jing. To use Jing you must download and install the free software for your Mac or PC. Show Me What's Wrong is a free service offered by Screencast-O-Matic. Screenr is a very simple, easy-to-use tool for creating screencast videos.
Mark Slabinski's Blog - 8 Key Principles of Writing Effective Game Dialogue The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Writing can be one of the most brutal challenges in crafting an entertaining game. You can sit in front of your laptop for 12 hours and pump out page after page of absolute drivel and feel like you’ve barely accomplished anything. Writing dialogue is already challenging enough, but it’s even more difficult in an interactive space. Writing in games in general is tricky business, but here are 10 things I’ve learned throughout my years that have stuck with me. 1. Has Hofman was onto something when he said that. Think of a simple example, say, of an NPC asking you to kill some wolves for them. "Hail, noble traveler. So much pointless information. "Traveler, help me! Much better. 2. But let's take this a step further. His dialogue should be anything but static or clinical: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
APA Formatting and Style Guide Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here. Please use the example at the bottom of this page to cite the Purdue OWL in APA. You can also watch our APA vidcast series on the Purdue OWL YouTube Channel. Note: For more information about services for the Purdue University community, including one-to-one consultations, ESL conversation groups and workshops, please visit the Writing Lab site. General APA Guidelines Your essay should be typed and double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5" x 11"), with 1" margins on all sides. Font The 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual requires that the chosen font be accessible (i.e., legible) to all readers and that it be used consistently throughout the paper. While the APA Manual does not specify a single font or set of fonts for professional writing, it does recommend a few fonts that are widely available.
10 Internet Technologies Educators Should Be Informed About – 2011 Update These Technologies Are Changing Education. Are You Familiar With Them? It’s been nearly two and half years since the publication of the first “10 internet technologies that educators should be informed about” article on this site and given the fast paced evolution of technology it’s time for an update. Below you will find updated information for 5 of the technologies from the original posting, and 5 new technologies that have earned their rightful place in the list (displacing 5 other types of tech, that while still worthy, are not quite as relevant today, IMHO). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Another important education technology trend is the exploding use of mobile devices. Well, there you have it – ten technologies that teachers, administrators, and educational technologists should be keeping an eye on and considering for their schools and classrooms, if they aren’t already using them. About Kelly Walsh Print This Post
Teaching Kids the Rules of the Game Culture Flickr:Gitsul Back when Jill Vialet was a kid, she used to play with her neighborhood friends for hours at a time, unsupervised. It seemed unstructured, because no adults had established any parameters. “We knew how to pick teams, resolve conflicts, there were spoken and unspoken rules,” she says. “It seems naïve to think that kids are going to figure out how to do it all on their own on the playground.” In the past generation, emphasis on play has shifted dramatically. Vialet is the founder of Playworks, a nonprofit organization that coaches schools, teachers, and playground supervisors on how to encourage good play practice. “If you talk with some principals, they see recess as a time of day that has a negative impact on school climate,” she says. “Recess is meaner than it used to be,” one Oakland principal told New York Times writer David Bornstein. Playworks steps in to help schools create a structure for play, and to familiarize both adults and kids with the tools of play.
10 Ideas for Classroom Video Projects “… ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.” (Stephen Downes) If you follow my Twitter-stream, you know that I spend a lot of time viewing, collecting & sharing videos. 1) Conversation with Future Me/You: “A Conversation with My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition” is a recently popular video by Jeremiah McDonald. While presenting with my brother George (he’s likely blogged about this somewhere) in Australia this past Summer, I remember him discussing how this activity would be an excellent beginning/end of year exercise that students of all ages could enjoy and learn from. Another angle for this activity could be to create a video or a dialogue with a literary, historical or popular media character. 2) Genre Shifting Movie Trailers:
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