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Common Craft: Project Based Learning

9th - 10th
Presentation Note: This video is courtesy of BIE.org and includes a title slide at the end of the video.
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Common Craft: Protecting Reputations Online

9th - 10th
This video discusses the long-term risks of sharing inappropriate information on the Web. It encourages viewers to "think before you click" and offers tips for being responsible with photos, video and stories. Points include:
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Common Craft: Qr Codes

9th - 10th
This video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone.
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Common Craft: Rss

9th - 10th
This video introduces RSS as a way to subscribe to websites and save time on the Web. An "old vs. new" theme illustrates how RSS differs from visiting web sites independently.
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Common Craft: Search Engine Optimization (Seo)

9th - 10th
This video uses a recipe analogy to explain the importance of search engine rankings and what can help your site achieve higher rankings.
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Common Craft: Secure Passwords

9th - 10th
Passwords are essential to using the Web and criminals have become very good at guessing them. This video teaches the risks and how to create a secure password and keep it secret.
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Common Craft: Secure Websites

9th - 10th
These days websites make security a priority, but it is hard to know when a website is secure, or what makes it so. This video teaches the basics of website security and how to recognize a secure site.
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Common Craft: Sharepoint

9th - 10th
People often feel overwhlemed at work and tools like Sharepoint can help manage and organize all the messages, document and calendars in one place. This video identifies the benefits of this application.
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Common Craft: Smart Grid

9th - 10th
This video focuses on the basic ideas that make up the smart grid, which is the next generation of the network that delivers electricity to our homes.
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Common Craft: Social Bookmarking

9th - 10th
This video introduces the basics of bookmarking services like Delicious.com. The video uses an example of teachers using Social Bookmarking to share links to useful websites.
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Common Craft: Social Media

9th - 10th
This video is a metaphor-rich explanation of Social Media. It tells a story of a town that changes as a result of democratization.
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Common Craft: Social Media and the Workplace

9th - 10th
This video reviews how social media sites like blogs, Twitter and Facebook are changing how companies think about external communication. It includes points on:
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Common Craft: Social Networking

9th - 10th
This video introduces the basic ideas behind Social Networking. It focuses on the role of social networking in solving real-world problems.
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Common Craft: Social Networking (Facebook)

9th - 10th
This video teaches the basic ideas behind social networking with sites like Facebook. It tells the story of a woman who discovered how social networking revealed a world that was formerly hidden from view.
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Common Craft: Stock Markets

9th - 10th
This video is an introduction to the basic ideas behind stock markets.
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Common Craft: Twitter

9th - 10th
This video introduces the Twitter service. It focuses on Twitter's ability to connect people in new ways, using short messages.
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Common Craft: Twitter for Business

9th - 10th
Twitter has evolved into a powerful business tool. Organizations large and small are using it to communicate with and learn from customers. This video focuses on the three businesses who use Twitter in different ways.
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Common Craft: Twitter Search

9th - 10th
This video uses a metaphor of "Twitterville" to illustrate the opportunities to use the Twitter Search feature to find people and information, read news and discover emerging information.
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Common Craft: Video Editing

9th - 10th
We are shooting and sharing video more than ever before. To make it useful, we need to learn the basics of turning raw video footage into a short video. This is the story of Liz, who edits a video for her company's website.
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Common Craft: Virtual Private Networks (Vp Ns)

9th - 10th
This video explains the business use of Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs. It tells the story of Candice who discovers her new employer's VPN means she can securely connect to the company network over the Internet.
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Common Craft: Web Browsers

9th - 10th
Web browsers are among the most frequently used software on any personal computer or device, yet they are often misunderstood. This video covers the basics of web browsers and explores features and tools that may be new to many users.
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Common Craft: Web Search Strategies

9th - 10th
This video introduces the best ways to use search engines to find information on the Web. It uses real-world examples that illustrate ways to reduce useless results.
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Common Craft: Website Cookies

9th - 10th
This video teaches the basics of website cookies.
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Common Craft: Website Evaluation

9th - 10th Standards
This video walks through the basics of evaluating a website to find quality information. It encourages viewers to evaluate websites in the way an editor would review an article. By thinking like an editor, we can be our own gatekeeper...