Black History Month

February is Black History Month.

There is a free curriculum unit on African American history available from K12 Handhelds. It includes an interactive ebook, a virtual field trip, and more.

Also, my mashup this month features audio from black history, as well as some great music. Give it a listen, and make sure to check out the free offer for a lucky listener on the site.

Also, on the mashup page is a list of multimedia resources you can use in your own classroom. Many of these are open, sharable resources that you can use with students to create your own mashups or other multimedia projects.

Podcasts by secondary students

My first mashup for the new year will feature podcasts by secondary students. If your middle school or high school students produce a podcast or if you have a favorite, post it here or drop me an email.

Parent podcasts

The beginning of another new school year, and it's a good time to think about how to facilitate strong home-school communications. With everyone's schedules getting busier and busier, this is difficult.

One way to communicate so that people can participate on their own schedules is through podcasting.

The latest of my mashups highlights how schools and other organizations are using podcasting to get information to parents.

[Image: Reprinted with permission from ClipArt.com; copyrighted property of JupiterImages used with permission under license.]

Mashup on museum podcasts

The newest show in Karen's Mashups features podcasts from museums. These are good resources to bring virtual field trips to life or to supplement a wide variety of curriculum units.

Let us know if you have an idea for a topic for one of our future mashup shows.

[Image: Reprinted with permission from ClipArt.com; copyrighted property of JupiterImages used with permission under license.]

PD podcasts

My newest mashup with audio podcasts for professional development is up.

If a part of your job is providing professional development, you should be thinking about podcasting as a delivery option.

The next mashup will be on museum podcasts. Post or email me your favorites!

Free "copyleft" visual resources

Every day, I am becoming a bigger advocate for copyleft licensing options for content. Copyleft licenses lets the creator maintain ownership (and copyright), while allowing others to share the content under terms specified by the creator.

If you are looking for images to use in presentations, copyleft content offers you a legal option for free content. If you are creating content, consider sharing it with others under a copyleft agreement.

My newest podcast features a sampling of great copyleft visual resources, like clip art, photos, and video. (If you missed it, the last show was on audio resources.) Both of these shows were really fun to produce (and a lot of work to edit, but that's part of the fun).

Here is a list of copyleft sources to look at:

Clipart
* Open Clip Art Library [Note: This site is in transition, but this art is also downloadable from other sites.]
* Wikimedia Commons

Photos
* Wikimedia Commons
* The Open Photo Project
* morgueFile
* Stock.XCHNG
* Flickr
* NASA
* Library of Congress

Video and animation
* Wikimedia Commons
* NASA's Earth Observatory [lets you build your own custom animations]
* Internet Archive

Music
* ccMixter
* Wikimedia Commons music
* Internet Archive (wide variety of stuff here, not all copyleft)
* Partners in Rhyme
* MusOpen

Spoken word
* Spoken Wikipedia
* Library of Congress
* Voice of America
* Internet Archive (wide variety of stuff here, not all copyleft)

Sound Effects
* The Freesound Project
* Partners in Rhyme
* US Fish and Wildlife Service (animal sounds)

Search engines for other copyleft content
* Creative Commons
* Wikimedia Commons
* Common Content
* ibiblio

At some point in the future, I'll do another podcast on copyleft-licensed educational resources. Hope you enjoy!

Video-based professional development

The newest show on Karen's Educational Mashups is up. This show features different ways that video resources are being used to provide just-in-time professional development. With all the time pressures on teachers, I'd expect this to be a growing area as schools look for creative solutions to building professional learning environments.

New mashup is available

The new show from Karen's Mashups is up. This one features podcasts produced by elementary students. You'll be impressed by the great work done by these kids and by how much thinking and learning is obviously going on.

If you're doing a workshop or presentation on podcasting for schools, please feel free to share any of these mashups to show the power of podcasting.

Educational Podcast Mashup

OK, Tony inspired me. Thanks, Tony. After my last post, he asked if I could post the mashup I made. Well, it was too long and had some other issues that made it suitable for my workshops and sessions, but not necessarily for a download, but now I've edited it. It's shorter and now includes only pieces for which I have permission or are open source or public domain. (Some of you know how strongly I feel about intellectual property and copyright.)

Here it is:
- Audio only version (MP3)
- Video version with credits (WMV; for Windows)
- Video version with credits (MP4; for Mac and vid ipod)

I hope this gives you some ideas for how you might use podcasting in education. Here are links for the pieces included. If you like them, subscribe!

Bob Sprankle and Wells Elementary (Room 208 and now 209 Podcast)

Spoken Wikipedia

Grammar Girl

Los Angeles County Office of Education

Tony Vincent, Learning in Hand

Radio WillowWeb and Willowdale Elementary

Colonial Williamsburg

Englishcaster.com

LD Podcast

THANKS to you all!

If you like this , let me know by posting a comment here, and maybe I'll do more. It sure was fun to put together.


P.S. If anyone notices a drain on the bandwidth at the Doubletree....it might be me. ;)
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Welcome to Spokane and NCCE

I just got into Spokane for NCCE, and the weather is beautiful!

On the plane on the way here, I put together a quick mashup* of education-related podcasts. It was a lot of fun -- there are so many great podcasts now that it was hard to choose from them all. I tried to pick some from a variety of genres: kid-produced podcasts, podcasts for parents, podcasts about technology (for professional development), podcasts produced by museums, podcasts by educational service centers, etc.

If you're at NCCE or another future workshop of mine on podcasting, stop by to hear the results.
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*This is a good example of one of the features of Wikipedia -- not many other online resources have information about current tech terms and topics.

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