A Digital What?

That's right.. a Digital Goonie!  After going through all the different blogs from the Educational Technology choices the digitalgoonies.com blog caught my attention.  First and foremost, the name itself is rather catchy, and therefore is what intrigued me to look into it in the first place.  The lastest blog post in this blog is titled, "Time for a Qwiki," which I think is cleverly named in reference to talking about Wikis.  The explanation of a Wiki Page given briefly in the blog post is basically a bunch of images and a narrative story brought together in a kind of slide show story telling way.  This one inparticular was all about the Dallas Cowboys football team and the words were narrated right to you!  I have worked with a WikiPage before in my UnderGrad, but I did not know that they can be read right to you!  One other blog post in particular that caught my attention was from January and it talked about copyright and digital imaging.  This was important because that is what we are learning about right now in glass.  Did you know that you cannot just take a specific image from the internet and use it for yourself to do projects and what not?  You can't!  You have to look into seeing if these images are copyrighted or not and then, if they are not, you are more than welcome to use it but you have to make sure first.  This blog explained to teachers that they need to let their students know which images are okay to be used and which are not, and by showing the students these tools to know the difference will help them to, "not get arrested" as the article's image displays.  I liked that it talked about teachers actually being able to be fined because they are basically "stealing" these pictures from the internet without realizing that these pictures, mostly, are copyrighted.  I cannot wait to look into this digitalgoonies.com blog in the future to see what else they have blogged about and what informative information they are putting out there.