Empower

The BCS Digital Learning Department is thrilled to share our selection of relevant activities and tips for the month! Feel free to use these resources in your classroom as a way to celebrate the various days featured on this calendar.  

Please log in to Clever before accessing any of the linked calendar resources below, and always be sure to preview resources before utilizing them in your educational setting. 

Copyright Corner

From a Reader: Books that are recorded and already on YouTube, are they safe to post in Google Classroom? 

Publishers were incredibly lenient during the COVID school closures about teachers using and posting recordings of texts.  First, don't expect that leniency to last forever.  Second, you can link these in your Google Classroom, just be aware that they may disappear without warning should a publisher file a copyright claim with YouTube.

Essentially, the Google Classroom, Canvas Classroom, or SeeSaw Classroom is an extension of your classroom and fair use applies as it would there.  That does not give you free reign to digitally create a book copy and hand it out to your students via Google Classroom and not purchase the readily available digital copies, but it does mean that read alouds can be conducted as they would in the regular classroom.  Be mindful of distribution and any loss of revenue that may result.   These are measuring points for fair use.

Innovate

Looking to embrace new ideas and products in your learning environment? Below are some professional learning opportunities as well as links to some of the many resources BCS Digital Learning & School Library Services provide!