Overview | Teaching Copyright As today's tech-savvy teens become increasingly involved with technology and the Internet for learning, work, civic engagement, and entertainment, it is vital to ensure that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities under copyright law and also how the law affects creativity and innovation. This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators. Unit Goals Educate students about copyright law, including the concepts of fair use, free speech, and the public domain. Objectives for Students Assessment
BCTLA Points of Inquiry Over 20 Free Digital Classroom Tools… Customize… Plus No Log In This is a site that you are bound to find useful in your classroom. The tools are incredible and may even include items you have used on paper in the past… but can now bring digitally into the 21st century! Before this informative journey encompassing some engaging resources please take a moment and sign up by email or RSS. I enjoy sharing and I am also motivated by knowing that I am making a difference for you. What amazed me most about Classtools.net was not the valuable tools provided, but the ability for teachers to easily customize these tools and use them in any subject area. Classtools.net is the work of educator, Russel Tarr, Head of History at the International School of Toulouse, France. The Listing Of Over 20 Digital Tools For Your Classroom The tools that you can even customize are included below. Arcade Game Generator – Allows teachers to create concept builders, practice exercises, and reviews.
Student Bloggers The Bloggers' FAQ on Student Blogging addresses legal issues arising from student blogging. It focuses on blogging by high school (and middle school) students, but also contains information for college students. Do Public School Students Have Free Speech Rights under the First Amendment? Absolutely. Both minors and adults have First Amendment rights, and according to the Supreme Court, public school students don't "shed their constitutional right to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But I'm a Private School Student — What About Me? You also have First Amendment rights, but those rights only protect you from government censorship, not private censorship. Also keep in mind that even though your private school may have the right to enforce a stupid rule, that doesn't make it any less stupid. Can Public Schools Censor or Punish Students' On-Campus Speech? Yes, whether you're a minor or an adult, in high school or in college. Usually, but it depends on the facts. Yes.
British Columbia Teachers' Federation Web 2.0 Tools Free Web 2.0 Tools www.tinyurl.com/bsdblog Films Animoto (www.animoto.com) Xtranormal (www.xtranormal.com) Photopeach ( www.photopeach.com) Home Movies (Window Movie Maker) Word Magic! Wordle (www.wordle.net) How to save (http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/bsdbsd/2010/02/11/how-to-save-a-wordle/) Wordle of day (http://guessthewordle.pbworks.com/ Image Chef (www.imagechef.com) WordItOut (www.worditout.com ) Use your voice (most of the time) Voicethread (www.voicethread.com) Gizmoz (www.gizmoz.com) Voki (www.voki.com) Comics and Photos Embellishments!
"Social Awareness" To Replace Social Networking The Internet of Things is fast approaching and with it comes Web 3.0, where "social awareness" will replace "social networking." Soon tweets and status updates will become fully automated and generated by the world around us versus us ever having to touch a keyboard again. Ambient intelligence systems are being developed with sensors and smart objects that will instantaneously create awareness about our whereabouts. This data will then be shared with our social networking and messaging platforms. Our friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter will be alerted automatically without us ever having to manually tweet or post a status update. Achilles KameasAchilles Kameas, a senior researcher at the Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (raCTI) of Patras, Greece coordinated the EU-funded ASTRA project which brought together researchers from multiple disciplines, including psychology, interaction design, knowledge engineering and computer science. See you on the other side!
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PRIMP MY BLOG While working on my blog’s redesign, it was a (lofty) goal of mine to do all of the design work myself. Considering I am a self-taught Photoshopper, have minimal HTML experience, and little to no CSS knowledge, this was a lot to take on. I found it really difficult to find the information I was looking for out there on the big, bad internet, and the information I did find was often too technical for me to understand or poorly translated to English. But I accomplished my goal, and I love my new blog, and in the true spirit of Her New Leaf, I learned a ton of new things in the process! I’m excited to share my knowledge with you in a feature called Primp My Blog. If Primp My Blog has helped you improve your blog, consider adding a button to your sidebar or blog roll to share with your readers. 300 px x 132 px 200 px x 88 px
10 Must-Haves for Your Social Media Policy Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. A few weeks ago, I wrote that your organization should have a social media policy, and one of the things I heard among all the great comments was: "Okay, but what should it say?" There are generally two approaches to social media policy making. Some organizations handle social media in an evolutionary way. Chad Houghton, the director of e-media and business development at the Society for Human Resource Management, told me that he thinks, “it might be beneficial not to create some arbitrary rules without first seeing where the opportunities and risks really are.” Other organizations, meanwhile, feel more comfortable establishing a clear policy from the outset. 1. All policies need to address what's in it for the reader/user — what should the reader take away after reading the policy? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Digital Literacy is the Bedrock for Lifelong Learning People often ascribe technological devices with magical properties, as though the inert objects in and of themselves can bestow us with the capacity to be "better, faster, and more productive." In actuality, it is the people making and using technological devices to achieve shared goals that produce the seemingly magical results. In a similar way, this Microsoft infographic seemed to suggest that simply having a home computer with Internet would fix billions of dollars of lost-earning potential due to nearly 10 million American students lacking access to digital tools. Certainly, increasing access to digital tools is a necessary step towards solving the problem, but as technologies of the moment come and go, it's even more important to ground digital inclusion agendas in the skills that youth will need to become and remain informed, engaged and discerning in a ever-rapidly changing technologically-infused world. Issues of Access Literacy Opens the Doors to Engaging with Diverse Ideas