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Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less
The Twitter feed for Lucas Ames’ class in American history has shown some lively exchanges of ideas and opinions among students at the Flint Hill School. One day this month, 11th graders at the private school in Oakton, Va., shared articles on the separation of church and state, pondered the persistence of racism, and commented on tobacco regulation in Virginia now and during the Colonial period—all in the required Twitter format of 140 or fewer characters.
Fair Use Evaluator from the ALA
1).Helps you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code.
2). Collects, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation.
3).Provides you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records, which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.
4). Provides you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records [example], which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.
FactCheckED.org
The Internet can be a rich and valuable source of information - and an even richer source of misinformation. Sorting out the valuable claims from the worthless ones is tricky, since at first glance a Web site written by an expert can look a lot like one written by your next-door neighbor. This lesson offers students background and practice in determining authority on the Internet - how to tell whether an author has expertise or not, and whether you're getting the straight story.
Comprehensive literacy lesson plans
Comprehensive literacy lesson plans and student materials from any content in minutes from ClassTools.net
The 15 Minute Guide to Twitter Productivity « ShoutEm
While microblogging has helped free students from jails, as well as raised money for charity, it has also given a lot of us a good reason to procrastinate. This isn’t Twitter’s fault. We’ll always find nice and shiny things to do instead of work, but there’s a point where we have to say – enough is enough. Let’s get productive while staying an active microblogger in five simple steps:
PointSmart Report for Best Practices in Online Safety [PDF]
Download the full report on Task Force Recommendations for best practices for child online safety. Point Smart. Click Safe. is an initiative of the cable industry to educate parents about online safety and appropriate use of the Internet by their children.
Task Force Recommendations for Best Practices for Child Online Safety
n June 2008 a diverse group of representatives from technology companies, child advocacy and parents' groups, educators, health researchers and policymakers gathered in Washington, DC to begin work on a set of recommendations for best practices that participants in the Internet industry could adopt to help keep children safe and smart when online. The result of the year-long effort is the report PointSmart.ClickSafe.: Task Force Recommendations for Best Practices for Online Safety and Literacy.
Student Assignment: Think Before You Post
Student Assignment at St Martin's Computer Lab. Visitors from around the world may vote for best presentations.
ISTE Eduverse Talks Ep.6: Guest Marilyn Reba
REVOLUTIONIZING INSTRUCTION WITH TABLET PC's. Filmed and broadcast from Second Life.
ISTE Eduverse Talks Ep.5: Guest Vicki Davis
FLAT CLASSROOMS: USING WEB 2.0 TOOLS TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD BETWEEN STUDENTS & TEACHERS. In this segment of ISTE Eduverse Talks host host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax) discusses the Flat Classroom Project with Vicki Davis (SL: CoolCat Whitman), the IT Director of Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia about her FLAT CLASSROOM PROJECT.
One-to-One ITOUCH Programs
Links to schools that have implemented an ITOUCH program. To Discuss the methods, best practices, and tools for implementing a 1:1 itouch (or iphone) program at a school including release forms, how you add apps, and best practices.
Copyright & User Rights, Section 107 - Transformative Use [video]
Brilliant lyrics and video on Copyright and "Transformative Use" by Michael Robb Grieco, doctoral student at Temple University.
Copyright for Educators - Overview Episode 2 part 1
Hall Davidson's Updated version of Copyright for Fair Use, which is aligned with the teachings from the Code of Fair Use for Media Literacy Education (Temple University). There were a six videos on copyright law produced with Hall Davidson for KOCE Public Television.
ISTE Std IV for Teachers: Digital Citizenship
A slideshare tutorial on Digital Citizenship: Seeing, Addressing the Big Picture.
Expanded Learning Time: Initiatives in High-Poverty and High-Minority Schools [pdf]
The Center for American Progress, along with our partners, has carefully crafted a policy definition of expanded learning time. Aimed at high-poverty, underperforming schools, expanded learning is the lengthening of the school day, school week, or school year for all students in a given school by at least 30 percent-the equivalent of roughly two hours per day or 360 hours per year. To be \neffective, the concept of expanded learning requires the complete redesign of a school's educational program in a way that combines academics with enrichment for a well-rounded student experience and that supports teachers by giving them more time for planning, training, and professional development. \n
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