001+Eighth+Session

Session Eight is going to revisit movies and other cool things you can do with images and sound, even if you aren't an artist.

First, everyone needs a YouTubeaccount. Actually, if you have a Google account, you have a YouTube account already, you just need to activate it. We'll use this to collect and organize favorite videos. Did you know that Greensboro Day School has it's very own YouTube Channel?

YouTube too, well, plebeian for you? Did you know we have a subscription to United Streaming Video, by the Discovery Channel? We do! Let's take a look at what it has to offer.

The next part of the session will be a rapid visual tour. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is a start.

Flickr Animoto Glogster Voicethread Aviary Comic Creator Make Belief Comics Manga Yourself (avatar creator, some content is not for little kids) Mini Mizer (fun avatar creation) Comic Life (the only one of these that is a program rather than a website).

The last bit of the session was inspired by a radio show Laura Drewicz Ewing shared with me. I have a couple of pet peeves about email and, frankly, I'd like to try to shift our culture here at GDS around email a little bit. So, we're going to talk and see if we can't start a mini-revolution. A while back, I read the book Sendand, while it didn't really seem like more content than a long magazine article, a couple of ideas have really stuck with me. So, I'll talk a little about my pet peeves, then you share yours!

1--How to email a hyper link. (Hint, there's a little more than cut and paste involved.) 2--Exactly how polite do you need to be around here, anyway? 3--Thanks for the answer, but what was the question, again?