Resources


 * Resources from Tuesday Morning Session**
 * Connectome TED Talk
 * Qooqle Web Site
 * Qooqle Video
 * Google Jockeying
 * Delicious Directions

Widgetbox [|www.widgetbox.com] Userid: vtfdi Password: technology Make your widget Save your widget Copy the code (for Scholar, choose the Flash code) Paste the code in Scholar (directions below)
 * Resources for Tuesday Afternoon Session**
 * **Widgets**: Customizable items you can put into Scholar or your website

Embedding a widget in Scholar 1. Log into Scholar (using Firefox) 2. Paste the code into the Home Page (Options, Source, Save) –or- 3. Click on Resources (either on your main page or within a course) or add to the main page 4. Click on Add, HTML Page 5. Type in any information you want on the page 6. Click on source 7. Paste the copied code from you map above 8. Save 9. You can then save the URL and make this link available on the toolbar.


 * Resources for Wednesday Morning Session**
 * [|As We May Think Article]
 * [|A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs]
 * [|Seth Godin Why do we Blog?]
 * [|Scott Rosenberg Top Ten Myths about Blogging]
 * [|Starlings as an Invasive Species]
 * [|Gardner's Blog]
 * [|Jennifer's Blog]
 * [|APGAR Slide for Class Meetings]
 * [|How to Embed Anything in your Blog]
 * We will find instructions for how to boolean search for RSS tags on Delicious
 * [|Google Jockey Information]
 * [|Gardner's Class from Last Fall]


 * Resources for Wednesday Afternoon Session**
 * [|Link to Jane Austen Google Earth]
 * [|Images to use on Google Maps/Google Earth] or [|More Images]
 * [|Building Better Balloons]
 * [|Google Earth Outreach (Tutorials, Samples, etc.)]
 * [|Mountain Top Removal Tour on Google Earth]
 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling]
 * [|DS 106: Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Personal Cyber Infrastructure]
 * [|John Udell Heavy Metal Umlaut]
 * [|WayBack Machine]
 * [|Mother of all Funk Chord]
 * [|Virtual Choir]
 * [|Star Wars Uncut]
 * [|Digital Storytelling at UMBC]
 * [|Course Trailers at Harvard]
 * [|Harvard Trailer on Youtube]
 * [|The Wilderness Downtown] (view in Chrome for best results)

> Magnatune maintains generous policies regarding non-commercial use of our music. To request music for use in a non-commercial project, you must first meet the [|legal requirement] for "non-commercial use" as defined by the Creative Commons License which governs all Magnatune MP3 files. If you meet these requirements, simply find the Magnatune music you want, click the "license" link and then select the option that reads "non-commercial and student projects." Follow instructions from there. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=FH3O6oFy2JI  Zombies! Based off a level in Left 4 Dead, looks like a good recreation.
 * Resources for Thursday Morning Session**
 * Bruce Hull's [|course wiki]
 * [|Lego Nature]
 * Howard Rheingold's [|Tools For Thought]
 * From Erika: [|Digital Storytelling]
 * Alan Levine's [|Flickr CC Attribution Helper]
 * [|Magnatune]: streaming music, downloads, music for projects: **What About Non-Commercial Projects?**
 * Ebooks ([|news flash from Amazon]) (Amanda Hocking [|interview], [|setting the record straight], [|Amazon listings], [|new deal with St. Martin's])
 * [|Quantum Computers]
 * [|Augmented Reality demo]: the world as a writable surface.
 * [|Alternate Reality Games] (Wikipedia). [|ARGNetwork], [|the year in Alternate Reality Games](2010)
 * James Gee, [|What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy]
 * [|LEEEEROY JENKINS]
 * [|Philosopher's Lament]
 * [|Philosopher's Revision, Collaboration, Scholarly Project]
 * @avantgame, [|Reality is Broken / Jane McGonigal website], [|Jane McGonigal TED Talk]
 * [|Ze Frank]
 * [|Constance Steinkuehler]
 * [|Interview with Joi Ito at MIT Media Lab]
 * [|Kotaku, The Gamer's Guide]
 * Wonderful essay on gaming in the London Review of Books: [|John Lanchester, "Is It Art?"],
 * Little Big Planet: [|commercial site], [|Wikipedia article with statistics], sample YouTube videos of user-created levels (from Ian Campbell, of [|Break Stuff Steal Things)]:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=UoMziyYRC1Q  Sony put out a thing showing off amazing community based levels, and  it's got a bunch of different examples/stuff about world records.  It's a little publicity-y, but it's really good.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=quo0rnvhzFM  The making of time-lapse video, which is in itself cool, for this  level called "Lights and Shadows"

 http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=dGpZIMF5K14  which is super pretty.

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 * More LBP Levels [|Back to the Future], [|The History Of Videogames], [|Rocket Assisted RollerCoaster]
 * [|Emerging Technologies]: MIT Technology Review (2011)
 * [|IT Conversations]
 * [|Horizon Project]
 * [|7 Things You Should Know (EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative)]
 * [|Institute For The Future]

Thursday Afternoon Resources
 * [|Feynman's Video #4]