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Web 2.0 Fun…and Educational! Amy Hopkins [email_address] This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license

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<ul><li>How can technology help you be a better student? </li></ul>

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21 st Century Learners

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What do students do regularly with technology outside of school? <ul><li>Gaming over 64% of students play online </li></ul><ul><li>Download music #1 activity by MS and HS students </li></ul><ul><li>Social networking 40% of middle school students </li></ul><ul><li>67% of high school students </li></ul><ul><li>Email, IM, texting over 50% of HS students </li></ul>

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What do STUDENTS do regularly with technology? <ul><li>Writing assignments- 74% </li></ul><ul><li>Online research – 72% </li></ul><ul><li>Checking assignments or grades online – 58% </li></ul><ul><li>Creating slideshows, videos for schoolwork - 57% </li></ul><ul><li>Email or IM about assignments - 44% </li></ul>

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Shift Happens More information on Shift Happens can be found at: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

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Simplified online content creation Ideas Creativity Collaboration Technical know-how unimportant Usually publically accessible

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<ul><li>Web 2.0 can help you be a better student! </li></ul>

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Wiki with Resources <ul><li>http://techisthefuture.wikispaces.com </li></ul>

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GOOGLE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

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Google Account

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<ul><li>Personalized homepage for Google Account holders </li></ul>

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Google Toolbar <ul><li>Bookmarks </li></ul><ul><li>Custom Buttons </li></ul><ul><li>Settings on toolbar can be accessed from any computer with the toolbar </li></ul><ul><li>Download at: </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_toolbar_ie/ </li></ul>

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Google Products http://www.google.com/options/

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Firefox ROX! <ul><li>My Collection of Add-Ons </li></ul><ul><li>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/amyhopkins </li></ul>

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Vocabulary Needed! <ul><li>RSS – “Really Simple Syndication” The ability of web content to be shared and republished </li></ul>

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RSS in Plain English – The Common Craft Show

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Vocabulary Needed! <ul><li>Tags </li></ul><ul><li>The subject descriptors given to Web 2.0 based information which can also be used to search out items of interest </li></ul><ul><li>Web feed/News feed </li></ul><ul><li>Feeds are most commonly used with web sites that are frequently updated, like blogs and news sites. </li></ul><ul><li>By creating a ‘feed’, the author can easily syndicate his or her content in a format that others can access by subscribing to the feed. </li></ul><ul><li>When the author changes the content on the site, it’s automatically updated on the desktop or web page of every single person who subscribes to that feed. </li></ul>

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AGGREGATORS

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What is an Aggregator? <ul><li>Holds a list of web sites and resources that offer RSS feeds. </li></ul><ul><li>Retrieves the information from each RSS feed page listed. </li></ul><ul><li>Checks for new content and retrieves the updated news </li></ul>

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Google Reader

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BLOGS

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Blogs <ul><li>A weblog (usually shortened to blog ) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of articles </li></ul><ul><li>Most often, articles are listed in reverse chronological order. </li></ul><ul><li>Blogging is the posting of journal-like pages to a website. Pages can contain photos or media - mainly focus on written thoughts posted to a website. </li></ul><ul><li>Typically, a blog &quot;post&quot; can be &quot;commented&quot; on by others, allowing for discussion on the topic. </li></ul>

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Blogs in Plain English from the Common Craft Show

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Courtesy of http://www.weblogcartoons.com/

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How do you find good blogs to read? <ul><li>Check out blog directories: </li></ul><ul><li>www.blogcatalog.com </li></ul><ul><li>www.blogged.com </li></ul><ul><li>http://technorati.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.icerocket.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://blogsearch.google.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.blogdigger.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.blogsearchengine.com </li></ul><ul><li>www.blogarama.com </li></ul>

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Blogger Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video ... Features - http://www.blogger.com/features

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AUDIO and Podcasting

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Podcasting <ul><li>According to Wikipedia , “A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. </li></ul><ul><li>Podcasting is a term coined from the combination of “iPod,” a popular digital audio player, and “broadcast. </li></ul><ul><li>Subscribe to a podcast feed and then have it automatically delivered to your computer when there is a new episode. </li></ul>Photo Courtesy of Oliver Hartmann

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Tech Chick Tips – a podcast I subscribe to

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iTunes – search for podcasts

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Other Podcast Directories: <ul><li>Podcast Blaster </li></ul><ul><li>Podanza </li></ul><ul><li>Podcast Alley </li></ul><ul><li>Digital Podcast </li></ul>

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Audacity <ul><li>Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds </li></ul>

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Voki <ul><li>Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. </li></ul><ul><li>You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. </li></ul><ul><li>Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone. </li></ul>

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Creating Podcasts <ul><li>Audacity – free, open-source software to record audio </li></ul><ul><li>PodOmatic – storehouse for audio recording </li></ul><ul><li>Blogger – blog to create feed for podcast </li></ul><ul><li>Feedburner – burn the feed </li></ul>

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COLLABORATION, PRESENTATIONS and PRODUCTIVITY

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets <ul><li>docs.google.com </li></ul><ul><li>Google Docs & Spreadsheets is available to everyone with a Google account. </li></ul><ul><li>Docs & Spreadsheets lets you </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Upload Word, Excel. Or PowerPoint files or </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Create new documents and spreadsheets online </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Edit your files online </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Invite others to edit your files online </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>View the files’ version histories and roll back to previous versions </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Publish the finished files to the world as web pages or blog posts </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Download the final, edited files as .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .html, and/or .zip files </li></ul></ul>

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Google Docs Templates <ul><li>Google Docs now has 314 document, spreadsheet, and presentation templates you are free to use. </li></ul><ul><li>You can create a new document from a template by choosing New > From Template… </li></ul><ul><li>docs.google.com/templates </li></ul>

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Drop.io <ul><li>Set up a private space to drop any files by phone, email, web, widget or fax and then share them with whoever you want via a variety of outputs. </li></ul>

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Etherpad Collaborate on a the same page in a text document in real time. Each editor is in a different color.

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Twiddla <ul><li>Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. </li></ul>

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WIKIS

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Wiki <ul><li>Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. </li></ul>From The Common Craft Show

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Wikispaces <ul><li>Wikispaces now hosts over 750,000 wikis for over 1,800,000 people. </li></ul><ul><li>Allows educators to have ad-free wikis for classroom use – http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers </li></ul><ul><li>Take a tour - http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction </li></ul>

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Hardware Review http://mrshoppy.wikispaces.com/Input+Device

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Google Sites <ul><li>Google Sites is a free, online, web editor that lets you easily create your own group websites. </li></ul><ul><li>Google even gives you your own URL [sites.google.com/site/ sitename ] and 10 GB of storage for your pages and uploaded files. </li></ul><ul><li>Negative: At this point, no code embed feature </li></ul>

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Example of a Student Portfolio created in Google Sites

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VIDEO

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Getting Video Ready to Use <ul><li>Many videos don’t come ready for immediate use in the classroom. </li></ul><ul><li>Sometimes download and converting to other formats is necessary. </li></ul><ul><li>My instructions on how to do this are here </li></ul>

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Animoto Create video from your pictures. Use my Animoto in Education account and you will be able to create full-length video, instead of the standard 30 second video. https://animoto.com/sign_up My promo code is edu6lab0509

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Jing <ul><li>Jing is a free screen capture program you can download to your computer, which you can use to take snapshots, or record whatever you are doing. </li></ul><ul><li>Files save as .swf files – need to be converted </li></ul><ul><li>Or </li></ul><ul><li>Upgrade to Jing Pro – saves as smaller, .mp4 files </li></ul>

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Stupeflix <ul><li>Stupeflix is a web service that turns your pictures, videos, and text into professional videos. </li></ul>

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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING and NETWORKING

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Social Bookmarking <ul><li>The ability to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. </li></ul><ul><li>Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others. </li></ul>

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Social Bookmarking in Plain English From The Common Craft Show

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Diigo <ul><li>My Bookmarking site of choice </li></ul><ul><li>Save bookmarks under “tags” allowing me to easily look at categories at any time </li></ul><ul><li>Share my bookmarks with my classes or colleagues </li></ul><ul><li>Look at other’s bookmarks for ideas/websites – Look under “Tag Communities” </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/user/ahopkins </li></ul>

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IMAGES/PHOTOS

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Flickr <ul><li>Flickr is an image and video hosting website </li></ul><ul><li>It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications – launched in 2004 </li></ul><ul><li>In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo warehouse. </li></ul><ul><li>Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed. </li></ul><ul><li>It claims to host more than 2 billion images. </li></ul>

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Flickr Resources <ul><li>Spell with Flickr </li></ul><ul><li>Flickr Toys collection </li></ul>

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Creative Commons

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Wanna Work Together? Basics of Creative Commons

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License Conditions Creators choose a set of conditions they wish to apply to their work. Attribution You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request. . Share Alike You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. No Derivative Works You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it. Non Commercial You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.

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Six Licenses offered through CC http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses <ul><li>Attribution </li></ul><ul><li>Attribution Share Alike </li></ul><ul><li>Attribution No Derivatives </li></ul><ul><li>Attribution Non-Commercial </li></ul><ul><li>Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike </li></ul><ul><li>Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives </li></ul>

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Great places to find Flicker Creative Common pictures Flickr Storm FlickrCC Compfight

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Windows MovieMaker project using pictures from Flickr Video Courtesy of Samantha Martin

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Cool Text Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work.

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TypoGenerator <ul><li>Turns a piece of text into a piece of art. </li></ul>

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ImageChef Using ImageChef's site, choose from dozens of fun templates that you can customize with your own text to create professional quality images with your own personal touch. Registered users can instantly post their personalized images to other sites

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BlockPosters Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed Once you're happy with your selection, you can download the PDF file containing your newly created images and print each one massively blown up, resulting in a huge pixel poster to stick on your wall ...

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Resizr Resizr is a free online image resize and crop tool with lots of extras! Features: Resize Pictures with High quality Crop to get just what you want Rotate 90, 180, 270 degrees Specify the exact size you want Resize unlimited pictures Share your pictures On the web With MySpace CODES!! Via E-Mail Send to your mobile phone (FREE!) Make your own cell phone background

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Wordle Generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom – http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5

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Picnik <ul><li>Picnik is an online photo editing service. Currently it can import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search and also offers options to upload from a computer or to upload from a website. </li></ul>Photo Courtesy of Lexie King

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Photoshop Photoshop.com is the complete solution for managing, editing, storing, and sharing your photos online, with tutorials, inspiration and more

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CONVERTING

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Zamzar <ul><li>Convert any type of files, including Youtube. Email notification when ready, pick up from the site. </li></ul>

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Media-Convert Convert almost any file (document, image, video, etc) to almost any file format. Upload from your computer or from URL. Instantly available for download.

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Format Factory <ul><li>Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter. </li></ul><ul><li>Software Download – It’s FREE </li></ul><ul><li>Format Factory's Features: </li></ul><ul><li>Supports converting all popular video, audio, picture formats to others. </li></ul><ul><li>Repairs damaged video and audio files. </li></ul><ul><li>Reduces Multimedia file size. </li></ul><ul><li>Supports iphone, ipod multimedia file formats. </li></ul><ul><li>Picture converting supports Zoom, Rotate/Flip, tags. </li></ul><ul><li>DVD Ripper. </li></ul>

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DRAWING

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quickmaps <ul><li>My House using quickmaps </li></ul>Plot items on a map and lets you either link to the map or embed it on your own site

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Bomomo <ul><li>A fun application which allows you to create great abstract images </li></ul>

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Sumo Paint Picture Courtesy of CJ Tawater Sumo Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support.

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ORGANIZATION

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Remember the Milk <ul><li>Add RTM to other Services </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/ </li></ul>

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Dial2Do Available in 24 Countries Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things!

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Mindomo A web-based mind mapping tool. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends.

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Evernote <ul><li>Remember everything! Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere </li></ul>

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Google Calendar

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PRESENTATIONS

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Slideshare <ul><li>Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar. </li></ul><ul><li>My Slidespace - http://www.slideshare.net/ahopkins/slideshows </li></ul>

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Glogster <ul><li>Combine images, video, music, photos and audio to create multimedia pages. Embed into any webpage. </li></ul>

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embedit.in <ul><li>A service that allows you to embed documents and files in a webpage or blog instead of having to link to them. </li></ul><ul><li>The files display directly in the browser, no software required. </li></ul>

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MUSIC

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Mixter ccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative works.

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Jamendo <ul><li>Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. </li></ul><ul><li>Share your music, download your favorite artists! </li></ul>

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Garageband <ul><li>GarageBand.com is a large online community of independent musicians and music fans. </li></ul><ul><li>Founded in 1999, the site is used by musicians who seek greater exposure </li></ul><ul><li>The site is also used by music fans to discover new independent artists. </li></ul><ul><li>Some is Creative Commons -licensed music content </li></ul>Good Times by Kevin Mitchum

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Internet Radio <ul><li>Pandora </li></ul><ul><li>theRadio.com </li></ul><ul><li>Jango </li></ul><ul><li>Last.fm </li></ul>

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Amy Hopkins [email_address] Resources for this presentation: http://techisthefuture.wikispaces.com Resources for another Web 2.0 presentation: http://tcea2009.wikispaces.com