Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/25/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.achievethecore.org/steal-these-tools">achievethecore.org / Steal These Tools</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Free tools for implementing common core standards in the US.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/free">free</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/common">common</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/core">core</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/">K4STEMLAB | Fueling students' love of learning through Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (S.T.E.M.) at Northfield Elementary School</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I love how STEMlab teacher Kevin Jarrett shares what students are learning in his STEMlab. The lab focuses on engineering, science, technology, and math and is such a powerful learning experience. I like this format better than just "technology" lab because it integrates what you're trying to be not just a checklist of point and clicks that will be outdated. "This post is part of my continuing series of weekly lesson summaries. My goal is to give parents & caregivers in our school community the resources needed to extend student learning at home, and to share my professional practice with teacher colleagues around the world in the hopes of improving my craft."</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/stem">stem</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://hackpad.com/Access-your-pads-offline-with-Dropbox-idz7GOaiks2">Access your pads offline with Dropbox - hackpad.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">You can access your hackpads offline by syncing with dropbox. Very interesting concept.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/collaboration">collaboration</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://hackpad.com/Welcome-to-hackpad-smart-collaborative-documents-REeiTgQKman">Welcome to hackpad - smart collaborative documents - hackpad.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Hackpad is an interesting tool. It claims to be a wiki but is more google doc-ish. They call them "smart" collaborative documents. You'll still need emails to invite people. It would be interesting to try out because you can link to other pads using the @ sign and it is also suited to iPHone and Android tools.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki_book">wiki_book</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/collaborative">collaborative</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/writing">writing</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/communication">communication</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.twylah.com/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis Twitter | Vicki Davis Trending</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">See your tweets dissected by topic. Here's my twylah page for my Twitter account. You can see common topics and it is organized nicely. I set this up sometime back.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialmedia">socialmedia</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tools">tools</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines">List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is a very comprehensive list. One area where Wikipedia excels (if academics will continue to contribute) is in comprehensive lists of open education resources. This list includes whether it is subscription or free and what type of database it is.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/search">search</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/information_literacy">information_literacy</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/edu-tools3?searched=true">EDU Tools - Symbaloo</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">A symbaloo gallery of some of the best web tools.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tools">tools</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232?hl=en">About Fusion Tables - Fusion Tables Help</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">If you want to play with data and analyze current information, you might wan to play with Google Fusion tables, a visualization tool for Google Drive.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/research">research</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://bigml.com/features">Features | BigML</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">FAscinating tool that lets you upload data and make predictions. This would have been a lifesaver in 1990 when I took "Artificial Intellegence Applications in Market Research" at Georgia Tech. IF you are working with predictive modeling at the college level, you should look at the powerful feature set available here.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/research">research</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/apps">apps</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_newapp">edu_newapp</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://www.statwing.com">Statwing | Intuitive Data Analysis</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This useful tool analyzes data without the statistical jargon but will make it simple as you analyze it. This is something you may want to use with students as they analyze data from Google forms or other original research.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/statistics">statistics</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/data">data</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/apps">apps</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.nebhe.org/thejournal/good-geofencing-makes-good-neighbors-the-age-of-mobile-alerts/">Good “Geofences” Make Good Neighbors in Age of Mobile Alerts : New England Board of Higher Education</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Geofencing is a new concept in safety notifications. Schools can literally notify anyone entering an area (i.e. notify vendors and parents they must check in with the office when entering a certain area), leaving an area, or within an area of issues. This could be used to notify and protect students, teachers, and anyone on campus in the case of an emergency of any kind.  This article is one of the best I've seen about geofencing and how it works, although it is promoting an app (Ping4alerts) it is very useful for safety leaders and it directors to read and understand the potential of this very useful technology. "Hyperlocal alerts are a new capability made possible by the rise of smart devices and “geofencing” technology. A geofence is a virtually “fenced-off” area or geographic location. When this concept is applied to mobile devices, it refers to the ability of users to receive automatic alerts or notifications when entering, leaving or moving within a geographic area specifically defined by a virtual geofence. That area could be as small as a single building or as large as a state or region of the country. System administrators draw a square on a map through their portal interface to designate the location and size of the geofenced in area."</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/safety">safety</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/evernote">evernote</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geofencing">geofencing</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_trends">edu_trends</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.timeforkids.com/destination/greece/history-timeline">Greece Timeline | TIME For Kids</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Time magazine has some fascinating timelines like this one for Greece.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://timelineindex.com/content/home.php">Timeline Index - People, Periods, Places, Events...</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">When researching a period of time, students should know how to "chronofence" or find information along a timeline. While Google nixed this type of search some time a go, there are many timeline makers that let you search for things in the context of timelines. This can be use for science, history, literature, and more.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/timeline">timeline</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/08/8-excellent-free-timeline-creation.html">8 Excellent Free Timeline Creation Tools for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">The use of timelines is an excellent organizers for prewriting and creating group timelines can help students relate topics and happenings to one another.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/timeline">timeline</a></p> <ul class="diigo-comments"> </ul> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://www.evernote.com/pub/coolcatteacher/flatclassroom#b=c7c80db9-9ca1-4cf5-8ae2-4c66ef617958&st=p&n=3189a9dd-4738-45fd-b825-e6155399fc45">Evernote shared notebook: Flattening Classrooms @coolcatteacher Global Notebook (Public)</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This notebook holds many forms, ideas, projects, for flattening your classroom. I like to save original documents here just in case links are broken on web sites at a later date. You can join this notebook or bookmark it to have access to the files contained here (in particular, the permissions forms.)</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flattening">flattening</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/classrooms">classrooms</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/communication">communication</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/upper_school">upper_school</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lower_school">lower_school</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/list/coolcatteacher/permission-samples">My List: A Collection on "Permissions and AUP samples" (permission,forms,aups,aup,education) | Diigo</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I've made a Diigo list of permission forms and AUP's that I'll continue to update. This is for my upcoming book Collaborative Writing in the Cloud from Eye on Education. See http://writinginthecloud.wikispaces.com for more information on this.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/3189a9dd-4738-45fd-b825-e6155399fc45/6b4a2c8f1cf88a43385a65209b26f6a9">Evernote, Dropbox, Edublog Consent form from Canada</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Here's a sample form allowing students to use Dropbox and Evernote and Edublog services from a teacher in Canada. NOte that this includes disclosure that the site is hosted outside the country, something important for international relationships as typically websites are governed by their host country.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/aup">aup</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sample">sample</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T0RhASp_WZASBae4nYzpUmLmbSTklTwmAqVMyXRfdBM/edit?pli=1">Digital Permission Form (1).doc - Google Drive</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This permission form has many different tools including weebly, Google dlocs, voicethread, YouTube, Glogster, Xtranormal, Toondoo, and others. I'm not sure that Audacity has to be included as it is a program on the local machine, however. I do like how the teacher asks for permission "I agree to allow my student's work to be used as  a positive example of published work for demonstration or promotional purposes." Some parents are afraid their child will be made to look bad in online examples, this covers that concern although it puts the onus on the teacher to make sure he/she vets examples that are published.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sample">sample</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://smorton31.edublogs.org/2012/08/13/final-project-political-cartoon-analysis/">Final Project: Political Cartoon Analysis | Web 2.0 Morton</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This teacher's lesson plan fully discloses the tools that are being used, the standards, and required permissions. This is a very detailed example, but one that you may have to use for large projects to get approval in your district.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lesson">lesson</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/plans">plans</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sample">sample</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.gcisd-k12.org/Page/10904">Gorman, Susan - US History/Coach / Technology User Agreement Forms</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This teacher has permission forms for use of Toondoo, Edmodo, and Glogster, three excellent sites that I also use in my classroom. While I like to combine mine all into one, this is an option for those very conservative districts.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edmodo">edmodo</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/toondoo">toondoo</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/glogster">glogster</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.ttsdschools.org/pages/ttsd/Parents/Google_Apps_for_Students">Google Apps for Students</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Another website example of disclosures about the use of Google apps from a district in Oregon. This also references their Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and frequently asked questions about Google Apps, another good thing to include.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/aup">aup</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/forms">forms</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://rrms.pasco.k12.fl.us/wp-content/uploads/rrms/2012/07/Google-Apps-Consent-Form-Secondary.pdf">Google Apps Consent Form - PASCO</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Here's a google apps consent form for another district. It also references the Network Access Agreement (We call ours an AUP - or acceptable use form) which is an important practice that ensures students know they must use the network in accordance with guidelines already given.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google">google</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/apps">apps</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/beaverton.k12.or.us/bsd_google_apps/home/permission-forms">Permission Forms - Google Apps Support</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">These are the permission forms for the Beaverton School District and Google Apps with specific disclosures about how usernames and passwords will be set up and downloadable permission forms. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sample">sample</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/forms">forms</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.cohs.com/?pid=206">Cardinal O'Hara High School - Parental Permission Form</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This website discloses the apps that this school will be using and links to the permission form. It is on the Academic Affairs page. I like the face this presents to the public. Here is what we WILL do and how we WILL do it -- with your permission, of course. Parents have a choice but schools do not - we must offer 21st century tools as part of a 21st century school. There are ways to do this. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/4d04f45c-eea3-4872-b20e-910f993b014a/e3c1ec316c02ce3b853342a9b46574ea">Social Networking Parent Permission Form</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">While not having a lot of legalese, this form does disclose what students will be doing and gets permission from parents.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/social">social</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/networking">networking</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki">wiki</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://mshallteachesenglish.edublogs.org/files/2009/07/Parent-Permission-Form.pdf">English Class Permission form</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is a fascinating permission form hybrid because it incorporates blogs, wikis, permission to read certain novels and watch certain videos ALL in one permission form. It would be one that high school literature teachers would want to look at using. I like how it discloses how students are identified. I may adapt something like this.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sample">sample</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/blogging">blogging</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki">wiki</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki_book">wiki_book</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://blogging101.wikispaces.com/Permission+Slips">Edu Blogging 101 - Permission Slips</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">A collection of blogging permission forms, while these are a bit older, they do give you a start.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/blogging">blogging</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.pjphs.org/uploaded//Permission_Form.pdf">Technology Permission form for Catholic School system</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This permission form is comprehensive and includes permission for online presentations in Blackboard Collaborate, blogging, wikis, google apps, podcasts, videos, social bookmarking and RSS as well as images. It is very comprehensive and useful. Again, I'm not a lawyer, but of the forms I've seen, I think this one is comprehensive.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/technology">technology</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/21c5089a-07ec-472c-92fa-c8684b1fe3be/f49d69e0fff73ed961065c34252ecfa2">Parental Permission for Web 2.0 Training, ONline Collaboration and Media Release (BOCES NEW YORK)</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This was a downloadable doc, so I put it into my public Evernote notebook of permission forms and other things about flattening the classroom, this link links to that notecard. This is a permission form for students who are using advanced Web 2 tools, collaborating online, and a media release. If you are in a conservative district, this permission from 2009 may help you.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.drummwr.com/CYSS%20Youth%20Network%20Survey/YNS%20Parent%20%20Adult%20Consent%20Form%203-21-12_LA.pdf">Research Consent form for Research</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is an example of a consent form for research for a research student done at the University of Georgia. If you are a researcher, you'll want to check with your university as to the proper way to format and secure permissions, however, as students become researchers, I have questions about securing permission for research. This is an area we need to discuss and understand because students can now be viable, authentic researchers and perhaps may have links to more accurate data collection techniques than researchers. What happens when researchers partner with students to collect data? A whole new world of research is opening up, so research forms are worth collecting.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/research">research</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/researcher_thoughtleader">researcher_thoughtleader</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.neopets.com/coppa/consentform.phtml">NeoPets Parental Consent form</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">COPPA is a reason that many schools shy away from having any children under 13 participate in online sites, however, NeoPets is a website that has done this. This is a copy of their COPPA consent form. In here, you can see how they've tracked and worked with this permission. It does require the parents to fill out and fax or mail the form in to NeoPets to allow children to use the communications portion of the website. This would be a website to review if you're looking at creating a portal or service that allows kids under 13 to post and communicate in ways that tracks their data. I am wondering if Facebook would eventually do something like this or if they will continue to create an environment that encourages children to lie to get on their platform. (i.e. under 13 not allowed)</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/coppa">coppa</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/19-673.pdf">Boy Scouts activity consent form</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is an activity consent form used by the Boy Scouts of America. They take students on physically challenging events for weekends and nights. This is a great organization that has worked with kids in nature environments for many years, so it would be a good sample to review.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/field">field</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/trips">trips</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permissions">permissions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.state.nj.us/education/techno/idconsent/form.pdf">State of New Jersey Consent form for images</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is the photo permisison form used by the state of New Jersey schools. I'm not sure if you should be required to specifically notify parents that photo recognition software is available. I do like the different levels of permission but am not sure how they track it in photos, etc. This seems like it would be a bit of a struggle, I guess it would have to be done with the use of colored dots on field trips, etc. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/photographs">photographs</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/photography">photography</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/oges/artsoniapermission.pdf">Artsonia sample permission form</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is an online art museum for student work. This permission form is used by artsonia, a student online art museum. It is a great place to participate and share artwork. Also, I like how artsonia allows parents to moderate the comments left on their child's artwork. This form also asks for parent volunteers. This is a nice way to share your student's best work.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/permission">permission</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/artwork">artwork</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elemchat">elemchat</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/25/2013

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UtellStory looks like an amazing digital storytelling application

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUb1q4_gJL2sGbmwT4h-7XyIk4wEZ_yMO1KslfVpAh7-BGpmkwtWrCDQi-yvVzScDk5Cm-HCRTuJeW2IzksiVrNdug-uxgPa5NdrAv8J-hgNLJiLyVoX-IfFdYj91YJXVxHMZEcEaVFw/s1600/UtellStory.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUb1q4_gJL2sGbmwT4h-7XyIk4wEZ_yMO1KslfVpAh7-BGpmkwtWrCDQi-yvVzScDk5Cm-HCRTuJeW2IzksiVrNdug-uxgPa5NdrAv8J-hgNLJiLyVoX-IfFdYj91YJXVxHMZEcEaVFw/s1600/UtellStory.JPG" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am always on the lookout for interesting ways to get our students reading, writing, or creating in one way or another. Today I came across <b>UtellStory </b>and I must say I really want to try out this application. I have embedded their example of what a Utellstory can look like from the opening page of their website (http://www.utellstory.com) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">below.  </span><br /><br /></div></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="450" scrolling="no" src="http://www.utellstory.com/viewstory/embed/6853b39e515f7574d900e741adef61d8?w=480" width="480"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How to create a story</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UtellStory has a 'how to' video on You Tube which explains how to go about creating a story. I like the fact that the final product can be shared and/or can be embedded on a blog. Here is he video.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MCc4iqOVq2g" width="420"></iframe><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Is UtellStory free?</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is always the compelling question! Fortunately the website informs us that they have free and paid options as shown below</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqG6SxeMFdfuVkobiRSChAZJ7Gh6YjbwUGXA5dOCDoefY341J8E-Wvomskkz7l0t_ktfu5nwFNZgIv5atk__Y9Z7VLTKZI8j-pbT7Nin-qmMtr3ik1dhyphenhyphenmVspDT4bfynbCX8mlsTPQ4S8/s1600/Utell+stories.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqG6SxeMFdfuVkobiRSChAZJ7Gh6YjbwUGXA5dOCDoefY341J8E-Wvomskkz7l0t_ktfu5nwFNZgIv5atk__Y9Z7VLTKZI8j-pbT7Nin-qmMtr3ik1dhyphenhyphenmVspDT4bfynbCX8mlsTPQ4S8/s400/Utell+stories.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, why not join me and give UtellStory a try?</span></div>

Creative writing UtellStory looks like an amazing digital storytelling application

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More inspiration: ‘Here’s to the crazy ones–think different’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always enjoy these videos that have an inspirational message. This one is said to be narrated by Steve Jobs and it features Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. The young girl at the end is Shaan Sahota</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The message - don't be afraid to think differently</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8rwsuXHA7RA" width="420"></iframe></div>

Inspiration More inspiration: ‘Here’s to the crazy ones–think different’

Submitted by Fiona Beal I always enjoy these videos that have an inspirational message. This one is said to be narrated by Steve Jobs and it...

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Complete Oscar Winners List 2013 ACADEMY AWARDS WINNERS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">BEST PICTURE</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Argo"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Amour"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Beasts of the Southern Wild"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Django Unchained"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Les Miserables"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Life of Pi"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Silver Linings Playbook"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Zero Dark Thirty"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Joaquin Phoenix - "The Master"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Denzel Washington - "Flight"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Emmanuelle Riva - "Amour"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Quvenzhané Wallis - "Beasts of Southern Wild"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: Christoph Waltz - "Django Unchained"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Alan Arkin - "Argo"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Robert De Niro - "Silver Linings Playbook"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Amy Adams - "The Master"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Sally Field - "Lincoln"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Helen Hunt - "The Sessions"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Jackie Weaver - "Silver Linings Playbook"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">ANIMATED FEATURE FILM</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Brave"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Frankenweenie"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"ParaNorman"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Wreck-It Ralph"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">DIRECTING</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Life of Pi" - Ang Lee</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Amour" - Michael Haneke</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Benh Zeitlin</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln" - Steven Spielberg</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Django Unchained" - Quentin Tarantino</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Amour" - Michael Haneke</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Flight" - John Gatins</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Moonrise Kingdom" - Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Zero Dark Thirty" - Mark Boal</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Argo" - Chris Terrio</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Life of Pi" - David Magee</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln" - Tony Kushner</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Skyfall" from "Skyfall," music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," music and lyrics by J. Ralph</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted," music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by Seth MacFarlane</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Suddenly" from "Les Miserables," music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">Winner: "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," music by Mychael Danna, lyrics by Bombay Jayashri</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Amour" (Austria)</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Kon-Tiki" (Norway)</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"No" (Chile)</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"A Royal Affair" (Denmark)</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"War Witch" (Canada)</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">CINEMATOGRAPHY</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Life of Pi"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Anna Karenina"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Django Unchained"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Skyfall"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">COSTUME DESIGN</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Anna Karenina"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Les Miserables"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Mirror Mirror"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Snow White and the Huntsman"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">DOCUMENTARY - FEATURE</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Searching for Sugar Man"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"5 Broken Cameras"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"The Gatekeepers"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"How to Survive a Plague"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"The Invisible War"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">DOCUMENTARY - SHORT</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Inocente"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Kings Point"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Mondays at Racine"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Open Heart"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Redemption"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">FILM EDITING</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Argo"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Life of Pi"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Silver Linings Playbook"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Zero Dark Thirty"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Les Miserables"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Hitchcock"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Life of Pi"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Anna Karenina"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Argo"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Skyfall"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">PRODUCTION DESIGN</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Lincoln"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Anna Karenina"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Les Miserables"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Life of Pi"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">SHORT FILM - ANIMATED</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Paperman"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Adam and Dog"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Fresh Guacamole"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Head over Heels"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare' "</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Curfew"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Asad"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Buzkashi Boys"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Henry"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">SOUND EDITING</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Tie: "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Skyfall"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Argo"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Django Unchained"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Life of Pi"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">SOUND MIXING</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Les Miserables"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Argo"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Life of Pi"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Lincoln"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Skyfall"</div></div></div></div><div class="mdl" style="background-color: black; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="h-wrap group" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/charlie/themes/events/oscars/2013/bar.jpg); background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 37px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="h-sub group" style="color: #c29d38; font-size: 26px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; padding: 0px 10px;">VISUAL EFFECTS</span></h2></div><div class="categoryInfo" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="winner" style="color: white;"><h2>Winner: "Life of Pi"</h2></div><div class="nominees"><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">NOMINEES:</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Marvel's The Avengers"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Prometheus"</div><div class="nominee" style="color: #9e9e9e; font-weight: bold;">"Snow White and the Huntsman"</div></div></div></div></div>

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Adele Electrifies Oscars With 'Skyfall' Performance

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 class="sub-title article" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding-right: 30px;">Backed by a full orchestra, singer performed the James Bond theme during Sunday night's telecast.</h2><div class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 2px;">By Jocelyn Vena (@<a class="twitter-anywhere-user" href="http://twitter.com/jocelyn1212" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;">jocelyn1212</a>) <a href="mailto:jocelyn.vena@viacommix.com" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img class="authorEmail" src="http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/images/spacer.gif" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/images/charlie/sprites/site_wide_original.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-size: 9px; height: 11px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 13px;" /></a></div><div class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 2px;"><img alt="Adele performs at the 2013 Oscars" height="300" src="http://images3.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/movies/o/oscars_2013/stories/adele/alt/281x211.jpg?width=281&height=211" width="400" /></div><div class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 2px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Adele performs at the 2013 Oscars</span></div><div class="credit" style="color: #999999; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 11px; padding: 0px;">Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images</div><div class="credit" style="color: #999999; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 11px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.mtv.com/artists/adele/" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;">Adele</a> let loose with her very own <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702513/shirley-bassey-james-bond-oscars-tribute.jhtml" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;">James Bond tribute</a> on Sunday night's (February 24) <a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/oscars/" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;">Oscars</a>. Done up in sequined all-black everything, the diva gave a flawless performance of the <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1694976/adele-skyfall-theme-leak.jhtml" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;">theme song for "Skyfall"</a></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence, who introduced the Brit singer, described the tune as "irresistible," adding that it "has joined the canon of great James Bond music."</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="background-color: black; width: 520px;"><div style="padding: 4px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="288" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:882862/cp~id%3D1702507%26vid%3D882862%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A882862" width="512"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 4px; padding: 4px; text-align: left;"><b>Overdrive Movies Feature</b> <br />Get More: <a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/trailer_park/" style="color: #439cd8;" target="_blank">Movie Trailers</a>, <a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/" style="color: #439cd8;" target="_blank">Movies Blog</a></div></div></div>Then the Grammy winner, along with an orchestra, hit the Dolby Theatre stage for a rendition of the Oscar-nominated song that filled the room. With her hair down and looking a bit wild, Adele was officially back on the scene and without missing a beat. Who rocked the James Bond song harder, Adele or Shirley Bassey? The new mother had been keeping a low profile since the birth of her son last fall. But her voice was as rich as it has ever been, even after an absence from the stage. As Adele hit the crescendo in "Skyfall," the stage lights became brighter and colored smoke filled the background; the retro feel of the track was highlighted by a choir joining her onstage.<br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">The Paul Epworth-produced "Skyfall" theme was up for <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702386/oscar-2013-best-original-song-predictions.jhtml" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;">Best Original Song</a>, facing off against "Before My Time" (from "Chasing Ice"); "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" (from "Ted," and which happens to be written by 2013 Oscars host Seth MacFarlane); "Pi's Lullaby" (from "Life of Pi"); and "Suddenly" (from "Les Miserables"). Adele <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1700097/golden-globes-2013-adele-best-original-song.jhtml" style="color: #840407; text-decoration: none;">won the Golden Globe</a> for the song last month before taking home the Oscar as well on Sunday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Earlier in the night, singer Shirley Bassey paid homage to the James Bond franchise as the legendary spy series turns 50. The iconic OG took the stage for a jazzy rendition of one of her own Bond themes, "Goldfinger."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><b>Stick with us for everything about the 2013 <a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/oscars/" style="color: #840407; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Oscars</a> including our<a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/oscars/winners.jhtml" style="color: #840407; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Oscar winners list</a> and <a href="http://style.mtv.com/2013/02/24/2013-oscars-red-carpet-fashion/" style="color: #840407; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">full fashion coverage!</a></b></div></div>

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Backed by a full orchestra, singer performed the James Bond theme during Sunday night's telecast. By Jocelyn Vena (@ jocelyn1212 )  Adel...

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Oscars 2013: Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook." " src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-50f35804/turbine/la-et-mn-golden-globes-2013-wins-best-picture--002/600" /><br /><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook." </span><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">(<span class="photographer">The Weinstein Co.</span>)</span><br /><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: -50px; margin-top: 6px; width: 335px;"></span></span><br /><div class="byline" style="color: #292727; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span class="byline" style="display: block;">By Chris Lee</span><div class="date" style="color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">February 24, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">8:50 p.m.</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"></span><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">The second time’s the charm for <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/jennifer-lawrence-PECLB0000006729.topic" id="PECLB0000006729" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Jennifer Lawrence">Jennifer Lawrence</a>. The 22-year-old Kentucky native landed the lead actress Oscar statuette Sunday for her tragicomic performance as an emotionally bruised widow in “<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/silver-linings-playbook-%28movie%29-ENMV0002653.topic" id="ENMV0002653" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Silver Linings Playbook (movie)">Silver Linings Playbook</a>.”<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Her win comes a month after Lawrence picked up the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/golden-globe-awards-EVHST0000228.topic" id="EVHST0000228" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Golden Globe Awards">Golden Globe</a> for actress in a comedic movie and just two years after the actress’ breakthrough performance in “Winter’s Bone” -- the role that first put her on the academy’s lead actress balloting list.</div></div></div>

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Oscars 2013: Anne Hathaway wins supporting actress Academy Award

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Anne Hathaway" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5125b5c9/turbine/la-et-mn-oscars-2013-anne-hathaway-tk-tk-suppo-001/600" /><br /><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">Anne Hathaway, center, as Fantine in "Les Miserables." </span><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">(<span class="photographer">Laurie Sparham / Universal Pictures</span>)</span><br /><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: -50px; margin-top: 6px; width: 335px;"></span></span><br /><div class="byline" style="color: #292727; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span class="byline" style="display: block;">By John Horn</span><div class="date" style="color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">February 24, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">7:23 p.m.</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"></span><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">She dreamed a dream, all right.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Starring in the very musical that made her want to become an actress at the age of 6, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/anne-hathaway-PECLB005266.topic" id="PECLB005266" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Anne Hathaway">Anne Hathaway</a> won the supporting actress Oscar for playing the doomed seamstress-turned-prostitute Fantine in "<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/les-mis%C3%A9rables-%28movie%29-ENMV0002791.topic" id="ENMV0002791" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Les Mis&eacute;rables (movie)">Les Mis</a>érables.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Oscar win caps a remarkable run for the 30-year-old actress, who has won a variety of honors for her fleeting performance in the musical. In taking home the supporting actress Academy Award, Hathaway beat out <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/sally-field-PECLB001673.topic" id="PECLB001673" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Sally Field">Sally Field</a> from “<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/lincoln-%28movie-2012%29-ENMV0002731.topic" id="ENMV0002731" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Lincoln (movie, 2012)">Lincoln</a>,” who was considered her closest rival in the category.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/academy-awards-EVHST000005.topic" id="EVHST000005" style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" title="Academy Awards">Oscars</a> 2013:</strong> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-en-oscars-2013-nomination-list,0,1532667.story" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong>Nominee list</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oscars-2013-red-carpet-arrivals-pictures,0,3777644.photogallery" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Red carpet</strong></a> <strong>| </strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/fashion/la-ar-oscars-2013-red-carpet-fashion-photos,0,6418986.photogallery" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Fashion</strong></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Hathaway, who starred in “The Princess Diaries,” “<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/rachel-getting-married-%28movie%29-ENMV000178.topic" id="ENMV000178" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Rachel Getting Married (movie)">Rachel Getting Married</a>,” “The Devil Wears <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/services-shopping/clothing-accessories-shoes/prada-PRDCAS0000540.topic" id="PRDCAS0000540" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Prada">Prada</a>” and “<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-%28movie%29-ENMV0001841.topic" id="ENMV0001841" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="The Dark Knight Rises (movie)">The Dark Knight Rises</a>,” was inspired to act after watching her mother, Kate, star as Fantine in a stage production.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">To play the role of the emaciated Fantine in "Les Misérables,” Hathaway lost some 25 pounds, so much weight that her director told her to stop. "To be honest, I thought she was going further than she should, and I tried to discourage her," Tom Hooper said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">But even if Oscar voters praised her work, Hathaway gave herself mixed reviews. Asked if she was pleased with her performance in the finished film before its theatrical release, she shrugged and said, "Eh."</div></div></div>

Anne Hathaway Oscars 2013 Oscars 2013: Anne Hathaway wins supporting actress Academy Award

Anne Hathaway, center, as Fantine in "Les Miserables."  ( Laurie Sparham / Universal Pictures ) By John Horn February 24, 2013 ,  ...

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LORI RACKL: Oscars host Seth MacFarlane surprises but seldom amuses

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Host Seth MacFarlane William Shatner during show 85th Annual Academy Awards February 24 2013 Hollywood California. AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECKROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty" height="228" src="http://www.suntimes.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=wT_Q6DbcGeuxc9DlJiE1D8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYtJ9kOD2MZV30uwlBN4j06tWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg" width="320" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #7a7878; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Host Seth MacFarlane and William Shatner during the show at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECKROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images</span><br /><br /><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="color: #3d3c3c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">A lot of song and dance but not enough actual entertainment. That’s what the Academy Awards delivered Sunday in a telecast that felt like it dragged on from the very start.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="color: #3d3c3c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Too few high points peppered the seemingly interminable opening. One of them featured William Shatner as Captain Kirk warning rookie host Seth MacFarlane about the near future’s cruel headlines skewering his performance.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="color: #3d3c3c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">MacFarlane — a wild card as emcee — wasn’t an unmitigated disaster, a la James Franco-Anne Hathaway in 2011. Instead he was mediocre, just as Captain Kirk’s prescient faux headlines predicted.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The 39-year-old creative force behind Fox’s animated series “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and “The Cleveland Show” started strong by welcoming folks to the 85th installment of the Oscars, quipping that “the quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh begins now.”</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The quest to make the rest of us laugh all the way through turned out to be more of a mixed bag. MacFarlane occasionally pushed the envelope — and pushed buttons. He sang about lady parts in the sophomoric number “We Saw Your Boobs” and cracked a Chris Brown-Rihanna domestic abuse joke that elicited groans. But he generally came off likeable and never went so far as to alienate the ever-graying loyalists who tune into the Oscars year after year.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">With his young, male fan base (the Academy Award’s largely untapped audience), MacFarlane clearly was brought in with the mission of luring new viewers. He did a decent job straddling the line between modern and old-fashioned and was appropriately unpredictable. That alone is a refreshing change in an awards ceremony shackled to tradition. But his overall performance wasn’t riveting, memorable or just plain funny enough to salvage the bloated show that at times felt more like the Tonys than the Oscars.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">First-time producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan (“Smash”) packed the program with an inordinate amount of musical numbers. Some of these acts were highlights of the show, such as Shirley Bassey belting out “Goldfinger” in honor of the 50th anniversary of James Bond films. But the sheer quantity tacked on precious minutes to a show that would have felt long even if it had ended on time.</div><br /></div>

Oscars 2013 Seth MacFarlane LORI RACKL: Oscars host Seth MacFarlane surprises but seldom amuses

Host Seth MacFarlane and William Shatner during the show at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. AF...

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Overrated and Underrated

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hola y’all! The late, great Christopher Hitchens once declared that “the four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobsters, anal sex, and picnics.” Man, that dude was pretty observant wasn’t he? Anyway, I thought I would put together a little list of things that are overrated and underrated for you guys today.<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> NFL’s obsession with a player’s 40-Time. So a guy can run 40 yards in 4.3 seconds. That’s great. How ‘bout making sure he can pick up a blitz? Or better yet, hold onto the football when someone hits him. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Sour Cream and Onion Pringles. Oh sure, Nacho Cheese Doritos are the bomb, but Pringles provides us with a really quality product with great taste in a very convenient tennis ball tube. You can’t beat that. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> The 80’s. Sure, everyone remembers the 80’s so fondly, but three words. Acid. Wash. Denim. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Chrissy Teigen. Everyone slobbers all over Kate Upton and her great big unnatural and somewhat scary boobs, but totally forgets about the super hawt, sweet Chrissy and her <a href="https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen" target="_blank">delightfully weird Twitter feed</a>. <o:p></o:p><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSNRwOPkV5T_MEzx9EXU2xvp6GOtfC1UMe0cttGMCqz3OTgaWCT5qZljK8jBB0j3wx5zALsxAhab-6kXF9PmRfAeHgnKnyVAY9CmBjb3APXzcbGB-CagXk41Xb_wn8OjZZK8rDaT8060/s1600/Chrissy-Teigen-Nude-Hot-SI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSNRwOPkV5T_MEzx9EXU2xvp6GOtfC1UMe0cttGMCqz3OTgaWCT5qZljK8jBB0j3wx5zALsxAhab-6kXF9PmRfAeHgnKnyVAY9CmBjb3APXzcbGB-CagXk41Xb_wn8OjZZK8rDaT8060/s400/Chrissy-Teigen-Nude-Hot-SI.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> Snow. Sure it’s pretty and all that, but it brings out a level of panic in people that just isn’t healthy. 90% of the people on the road become a huge threat to our wellbeing as soon as they see the first snowflake. Worse than that even is the nationwide panic that ensues anytime a major winter storm moves across the country. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> PBS. Most Saturdays I leave my TV on PBS the entire afternoon. Home improvement, gardening and cooking shows beat virtually everything else on TV. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> College Basketball. These kids coming out of high school today can’t play the game. They can’t dribble, pass, shoot, rebound, play defense or hit their free throws. Other than that they’re a blast to watch. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Silence. Just sitting there reading a book with no radio or TV on is one of life’s little pleasures that people forget to take advantage of. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> Smartphones. There is such a thing as being “too connected” guys. You can’t get away from people if you have a smartphone. No matter where you go or what you do they can contact you in some way. Also, you are paying a ridiculous amount each month to do things on your smartphone that would be much easier and more enjoyable on that laptop sitting right next to you. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> People watching. People are hilarious when they don’t realize someone is watching them. Just kicking back on a park bench or at the mall or airport or a casino and watching people as they wander aimlessly through life is just about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated: </b> Home ownership. While it does provide some pros, there are so many cons to owning a home and spending all your free time trying to keep it up tops the list of cons. All that yard work isn’t exactly fun either. But what sucks most about home ownership is that you’ll NEVER get back what you put into it. You add up the principal plus the interest plus all the expenses of fixing every little thing that needs it and you’ll spend 3 or 4 times what you finally get back on a house the day you sell it. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Frozen Pizza: Frozen pizza gets a bad rap, but it can actually be pretty damn yummy. Of course, sometimes it needs a little help from you. The problem with most frozen pizzas is they need more toppings. Okay, put more topping son them! More pepperoni, maybe salami, slice up summer sausage or kielbasa and some shredded Colby and mozzarella cheese you can fancy up that .99 cent frozen pizza from Aldi nicely. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> Buffets: Badly prepared food that you probably don’t really want anyway that’s been sitting around for the last hour and is either super-hot or cold? I’ll pass. Not to mention the fact that kids have probably touched everything on the food bar with their snot covered fingers. Pizza buffets are actually the worst. The only thing they put out is cheese pizzas or something with green peppers or pineapple on it. Gross.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Podcasting. Everyone should have a podcast. Wait, almost everyone does! Anyway, you can talk about anything you want. Do comedy bits. Interview interesting people and do it all without anyone trying to control your content. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Okay, that’s enough for now. We’ll revisit this from time to time in the future I’m sure. Maybe I’ll even change my mind about some of these things. Feel free to tell me what YOU think is overrated/underrated in comments. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaking of Podcasting and people who are underrated, we have a wild and crazy time on <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/02/24/debi-daly-uncrossed" target="_blank">IWS</a> this weekend. Our very special guest was the wildly popular and somewhat infamous Debi Daly! We talked about haters, stalkers, elite troll teams and all kinds of other fun stuff. 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Overrated and Underrated

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Not a First Half Team

I guess it's better than the other way around?<br /><br />...?<br /><br />I am looking forward to watching a game played by the University of Michigan men's basketball team where they don't start in the hole.<br /><br />It's as if they need to play a half of basketball in their practice gym before they begin the real game! Their warmup routine needs a real makeover. I don't know if the team isn't mentally prepared for the first half, or if they just work better from behind.<br /><br />It even seemed like the second half was much more of a Michigan style today. They started running up and down the floor better, their passes were sharper, and they were getting rebounds and avoiding blocked shots.Their shooting percentage improved from 48% in the first half to 54%. Three point percentage improved from 28% to 36%. Trey Burke got back on track, even becoming the seventh player in Michigan basketball history to get to 1,000 points as a sophomore with his game high 26 points.<br /><br />But what is taking them so long? Is it too much to ask for a wire-to-wire beatdown of an opposing team? As we've seen, coming back from behind doesn't work against the high ranked teams, like Indiana and Michigan State. Both of which, by the way, Michigan still needs to play a second time. Top notch teams know that they need to start strong and finish strong. Most of the time, just "finish strong" won't win games. Even a bottom feeding team will pounce on that.<br /><br /><b>In other news...</b><br /><br />The Tigers are back in business! The period of mourning is over. It feels good to have a solid DH back in business. Welcome back, Victor Martinez! (And Little Victor!) Bruce Rondon - future (or present) closer - provided a solid inning of pitching on Saturday. The big bats are back to hitting home runs. And if we could get all of our injuries out of the way now (Boesch, Santiago) that would prove useful during the season.

Not a First Half Team

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Alvarado Street Bakery Review

<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkX7mkgrJ6mswUAIeXH7ziXNnrsYOOsCqPD4CORVUYchN0YewToSeQUKMx0cuikGGVzyMPdo7VPNLRGMroDsG4G7-DoVuHoP9PQEXJSebNnxjdTs9X0Hb0NeM1f2XiE_lNvLjP4eVn1M/s1600/alvarado+sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkX7mkgrJ6mswUAIeXH7ziXNnrsYOOsCqPD4CORVUYchN0YewToSeQUKMx0cuikGGVzyMPdo7VPNLRGMroDsG4G7-DoVuHoP9PQEXJSebNnxjdTs9X0Hb0NeM1f2XiE_lNvLjP4eVn1M/s320/alvarado+sign.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing I can never give up when eating sensible is baked goods such as breads, bagels or English muffins.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just got to have them,but in moderation of course.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most importantly is that they are not just satisfying taste wise but healthy as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used to eat a lot of foods that are processed, but I am more aware now of products that are made with the best ingredients such as whole grains and real products not those fillers they use in other breads.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent some coupons to try these wonderful products from</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.alvaradostreetbakery.com/index.php" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alvarado Street Bakery</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for review.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Started producing whole grain organic baked good for their local community in 1979, and can be traced back to Food For The People Not For The Profit organization in the<br />San Francisco Bay Area.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1981 five brigade workers decided to form a worker cooperative and then  purchased the bakery and formed Semper Virens Bakery Food Cooperative.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which means Ever Green.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Botanical name from the areas largest treasures is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how the company got their name was from  ancient red wood forests. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as the road sign they came across as well! </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to Whole Foods market and picked up some bread and bagels of theirs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are sold in the frozen foods section.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>*Products*</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bagels</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breads</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">buns</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">granola</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tortillas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pizza bread</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>*Facts*</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">certified organic</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> no preservatives </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq05ua3yoi6pxGSfSBOOZmmaDTD1aDRIwfwJ1wMxfPWuPRGK3tnV6L2XxxaALuDoZdeQiJM0uoaJIv6aSbRxlBJZoVdjcKl2ReUurR8hqS8b3pKfof9SYVusfsLp5Khyphenhyphenbh-jPUzppEYok/s1600/Alvarado+street+bagel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq05ua3yoi6pxGSfSBOOZmmaDTD1aDRIwfwJ1wMxfPWuPRGK3tnV6L2XxxaALuDoZdeQiJM0uoaJIv6aSbRxlBJZoVdjcKl2ReUurR8hqS8b3pKfof9SYVusfsLp5Khyphenhyphenbh-jPUzppEYok/s320/Alvarado+street+bagel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow what a great breakfast this morning!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made an omelet with some ham,cheese and tomato with a sprouted wheat onion poppy seed bagel with some Melt butter on it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yum!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So delicious.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bagel was light, airy and the flavor was amazing! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First bite of the bagel I could tell that it wasn't like any ordinary old bagel it was healthier.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check them out online at the sites below!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sure to like their Face Book page!</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alvaradostreetbakery.com/index.php">http://www.alvaradostreetbakery.com/index.php</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlvaradoStreetBakery">https://www.facebook.com/AlvaradoStreetBakery</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AlvaradoStreet">https://twitter.com/AlvaradoStreet</a></span><br /><br /><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Sold at*</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stop and Shop</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whole Foods</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albertson's</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shop Rite</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raley's</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safeway</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">City Market</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Costco</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and more!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Alvarado Street Bakery Review

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