Gabriella Williams's List: CI 583

This paper provides guidelines for teachers and librarians with defined chapters explaining the use of copyright and fair use for dvds/cds, public domain issues, obtaining permission, television , computer software, music/audio, printed works, and distance learning courses,

This paper is a wonderful compilation of articles discussing different areas of interest when using web based portfolios and copyright. These artilces cover topics such as Piaget and Vigotsky with technology education, at-risk students and technology, and a comparison of face-to-face classes versus distance learning classess. There are many more articles and would be great to look at for future research topics as well as copyright and technology issues.

This is a podcast that address the legalities of copyright and fair use. It gives explanations for use regarding audio voice recording, podcasts, using music, and video images. This is a great resource for students and teachers.

Student Bloggers: Electronic Frontier Foundation is a bloggers legal guide to student blogging. It provides information for students about legal issues when student blogging, such as freedom of speech and censorship.

This website offers guidelines developed by university of Texas for Fair Use when students use multi media such as websites, podcasts, bloggs, etc.

This is a resource for those seeking answers to copyright and fairuse laws regarding use in Distance Education. It specifically gives an outline of the legislative history, the meaning and importance of the TEACH Act (new copyright law for distance education), and related links and files for further research. Since many more students are taking classes via online/distance courses, this information is critical for remaining legal.

This is a great resource for students (or any other person) that have questions regarding copyright and fairuse laws. It specifically focuses on the legal climate of copyright and fair use via the internet. It answers specific questions that teacher may not be able to answer. Due to the amount of internet use by teachers and students I thought this would be a useful tool for teachers to make available to students for reference.

Very creative video display of fair use and copyright law and explains the laws regarding this issue. It uses Disney animations from animated movies to explain the issues with copyright and fairuse. This is a creative way to keep youger children interested in learning about copyright and fair use.

Purdue guidelines for Copyright and Fairuse. This is a website that is used as a reference for citiations and proper publication styles. It is very well known and respected. It highlights 1. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works, 2. Fair Use, and 3. Limitations of Exclusive rights

This is an overiew of the legal definitions of copyright and fair use by Cornell Universtiy.

This is the proposal for the Freedome to Teach program from Harvard University. It confronts the problems with fair use and copyright law in the field of teaching, specifically in higher education. It is focused on bringing the academic community and gatekeeper to a consensus on fair use and copyright practices.

This is a resource to locate most websites dealing with copyright and fair use. It would be a good one to bookmark for future reference when teaching.

This article discusses the future possibilities of home schooling and the various options for homeschoolers such as college at home and socialization issues.

This website gives several different articles about the outcome of homeschool student success in regards to ACT testing up to 2003. The statistics shows that home schooled students excelled on ACTscores compared to national average and public schools. It also provides other articles detailing different tips and methods to teach home school students

Christian Home Education Association of Central Texas describes homeschooling according to Texas Law and their religious law.

This article explains the history of homeschooling legalities and the different court cases and obstacles home schoolers faced to allow homeschooling to be legal.

This analysis looks at the largest home school study to date. The findings state that home schoolers are much more advanced in their grade levels.

This letter from the Commissioner addresses recent outcomes of the lawsuit brought against a district. It explains the current law in layman's terms and the procedures for receiving credit for homeschooling and alleviating excessive absences for home schoolers from public school.

This website give listings to homeschool groups all over Texas and listed by city or county. I have highlighted the areas such as Magnolia, The Woodlands, Tomball, and Montgomery County. These links will help you find out more information about each group and their mission.