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Images

How to get images

There are many sources of images for your digital story that are not subject to the copyright laws. These images can be reused and modified

• Creative Commons, http://search.creativecommons.org/
• Flickr, http://flickr.com/creativecommons
• A common category for reusable images , Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
• FlickrCC, http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/
• Free images, http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
• Pics4Learning educational images http://www.pics4learning.com/
• Historic photos from the Library of Congress, http://www.flickr.com/commons

Photos Linked to Photos

Presented at the TED Conference...Amazing photos with the same meta data can be linked together

Technology and Friends

One thing that we are observing is how technology affects our world---school,work, love, family and play. Has the internet, email, social sites changed our definition of a "friend". Has it changed our relationships?

Microsoft Tries to Purchase Yahoo

In our last communication Yahoo had plans to restructure and become more like Facebook and other social sites. Now Microsoft has offered share holders a lot on money $44 billion to purchase Yahoo. Why do you think Microsoft would do this? What advantages do they see? Will this move influence the strategic plans of Google? Stay tuned. Things happen quickly on the internet?
What do you think?

Listen to conversation with Times reporter, Andrew Sorkin http://graphics8.nytimes.com/podcasts/2008/02/01/02backstory-sommer-sorkin.mp3

Cellphone Novels in Japan

Its all thumbs!!! Her novel sold 400,000 copies.
Why?

I am amazed. Technology and people produce change that is unexpected all the time. The internet is such a creative platform for communication.

A Space for Creativity

Some environments seem to promote creativity. An artist’s studio, a pottery studio, a kitchen, and hopefully a writer’s desk come to mind. The class was very observant about how they create an environment for learning:

• Ermira said, I have to work with loud music
  
• Jesse said, What helps me is by looking at scenery and just drawing it.
  
• Kelsey said, When i take notes they arent very helpful at that tiem and place but later on i usually go back to them and use them for guidlines.
  
• Lauren said, Thinking or drawing always helps me understand things much better.
  
• Ariel said, I can always draw in my old sketchbook if I want too, or I can use my computer and write in a word document to get my thoughts down on paper.
  
• Autumn said, When I'm most creative when I'm listening to music in my room.
  
• Brendon said, Most of these places are eerie places such as cemetaries, or in the woods at night. I also get inspiration believe or not from places such as churches or any sacred place like that
  
• Brendan said, I need to be distracted while I work
  
• Jacob said, Although it is hard to explain, I believe that nature is the best cultivator for the mind.
  
• Jay said, I think that people are the most creative in the places that they are most comfortable. I also like to write in my spiral notebook.
  
• Jeremy F. said, i feel like im most creative in my room sitting at my computer with no sounds.
  
• Jeremy Z. said, Sometimes I realize that I write my best work when I am inspired by some sort of recent event, particularly a tragedy. For example, for my English class, we were given an assignment to do one of various things to write a two-page entry in our journals, but for mine, a great deal of ideas ran through my head.
  
• John said, I have a cool pen made 100% of blue glass, that you dip in ink to write with, and a really cool green leather notebook, that really help my creative side come out.
  
• Katherine said My house is a good place for me to be creative. My basement is very quiet and away from any distractions.