Focus 3

Respecting Boundaries - Saying "I do" to respecting others' intellectual property and "I don't" to pirating and plagiarism.

Student Resources

Media Literacy Overview

• Show Your Media Literacy -Short video from Literacy with ICT across the Curriculum to get you thinking about the many ways media literacy is part of our digital lives.

Media Literacy

• Critical Thinking Skills Cheat Sheet - Infographic from the Global Digital Citizen Foundation.
• The Honest Truth About Fake News...And How Not to Fall for It - We think you will find this post by KQED interesting - it's about you(th).

Gathering Information

• Research It Right - Short tutorial (about 10 minutes) from Vaughn Memorial Library, Acadia University.
• Searching for Success - Another tutorial from Vaughn Memorial Library. Students, this tutorial is mostly for you, so just ignore a little bit of teacher talk.

Questioning Information

• The 5 W's of Website Evaluations - One-page guide by Kathy Schrock puts website evaluation into a nutshell.
• Evaluating Web Page: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask- UC Berkeley's guide is "one of the most heavily used and linked-to tutorials on web searching in the world."
• Evaluating Websites: A Checklist - The University of Maryland's checklist is similar to UC Berkeley's guide, but uses a linear format. (Thanks to Jim Bentley for sharing this resource with us.)
• Internet Skills 1: How to Evaluate a Website - In less than 4 minutes, learn how to apply CPOW skills to your next search.

Avoiding Plagiarism

• Citing Sources
  • BibMe - BibMe is an automated citation creator and bibliography generator that can save you loads of time building and formatting your references. Here's a 90-second video introduction to show you how simple BibMe makes it to cite your sources.
  • Easybib - Online site that provides automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles.
  • You Quote It, You Note It - Interactive slideshow on how to avoid plagiarism.
  • A Quick Guide to Plagiarism:

Learning about Copyright

• Cyberbee's Copyright Lessons and Resources - Excellent site for elementary students
• Copyright for Kids- When you are ready, checkout the Copyright Challenge Quiz.
• Copyright What's Copyright? - Some basics - in a School House Rock format
• What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter? - From Common Sense Media (via Graphite blog), a great explanation of what about Creative Commons licensing is all about.
• Can I Use That? A Guide to Creative Commons - We've (Digital ID team) created this guide in response to questions from teachers in our districts, regions, and online communities. It's a work in progress that we'll continue to update and add to based on updates from Creative Commons and your questions and suggestions.

Video credit: Digital Citizenship - Who Will You Be? By RozzyBearHere

Fair Use

Learn how to "flex your fair use muscles"!

• To understand the importance of "transformativeness" when building an argument for fair use, checkout the Center for Socia Media's videoclips- such as User's Rights, Section 107
• For an great example of "character appropriation," check out Stanford's Center for Internet and Society: A Fair(y) Tale
• Tool for reasoning fair use - This PDF form from Kristin Hokanson is a great organizer to help you build an argument for fair use. Kristin has also posted a Google form version of the reasoning tool.
• High school librarian Joyce Valenza has posted links to many copyright-free materials (images, music, video) on her Classroom Resources for Copyright & Fair Use wiki and on her thumbnail list.
• Be sure to visit and learn about Creative Commons options for sharing original works - including your own student-created content! Here is a great slideshow for students to learn about the six Creative Commons licenses.

Music Resources

• UJam – A free, web-based program for creating music – even if you are musically-challenged.
• ccMixter – ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
• Audacity - A free, cross-platform program for creating and editing audio. Here’s a link to a very complete tutorial: Audacity Basics
• Jamendo – A rapidly-growing community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
• Moby Gratis- If you're a Moby fan, you'll appreciate having permission to use some of his discarded tunes.

Image Resources

• Pixabay - Tons of high-quality public domain* photos, illustrations and vector graphic - free of charge for any purpose, including commercial. Attribution (giving credit) is not required.
• Flickr - Check for Creative Commons licensing - which Flickr has recently made easier.
• FlickrStorm - FlickrStorm is a third-party Flickr search tool that provides some new ways to search and collect photographs from Flickr. The Add to Tray option allows you easy access to your photos, including the Creative Commons licensing.
• Photos for Class - Citing Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr's just got even easier.
• MorgueFile - Large file sizes are great from importing into movie editing programs
• Pics4Learning - Huge selection
• FreePhoto - more freebies
• Library of Congressvia Flickr
• How to Check for Creative Commons licensing on a Google Images Search - Tutorial from Richard Anderson
• Wikimedia Commons - a database of 21,555,145 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. The term "public domain" refers to intellectual property that no longer has copyright restrictions due to its age - or because the owner has chosen to remove any copyright restrictions from his/her work.
• Photos for Class - Citing Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr's collection just got even easier. Selected images come in complete with Creative Commons licensing.

Teacher Notes

Resources

• Creative Common's Wanna Work Together Video
• Creative Commons - What Every Educator Needs to Know - Comprehensive narrated slideshow of origins and implications of cc by Rodd Lucier
• Kathy Schrock's Guide to Evaluating Websites - Secondary Level - We really appreciate Kathy Schrock's on-going commitment to provide resources for evaluating information - starting in the elementary grades..
• A Visit to Copyright Bay - Designed for educators
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education- A great resource for workshops.
• Case Scenarios for Reasoning Fair Use - More resources created by Kristin Hokanson to help teachers and students reason through, case-by-case, Fair Use guidelines, in order to create their own arguments for fair use.
• Using Music and Images Ethically in Multimedia Writing - From Sandy Hayes, a chart to help students select online resources that truly complement their project's message.
• Copyright Criminals - PBS documentary introduces students to both sides (fair use vs. copyright infringement) of the hip-hop practice of creating new works through "sampling."
• Understanding Plagiarism in a Digital Age - From Lionel Anderson and Katherine Schulten via the New York Times Learning Network. From the art of paraphrasing to the "complex notion of originality," this great post offers skills, strategies, and resources for teaching about plagiarism.

Curriculum

• Teaching Copyright - From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this site offers lessons that "foster basic skills in research, writing, and critical thinking" to help students understand their basic rights and responsibilities.
• Unlocking Copyright Confusion- Temple University's Renee Hobbs has created this wiki, along with a slideshow, Finally the End to Copyright Confusion Has Arrived, and other teaching resources such as the Media Education Lab''s curriculum, with a section for elementary, middle and high school.
• Creative Credit and Copyright - Check out Common Sense Media's Scope and Sequence Chart for lessons - starting in the primary grades - that will introduce students to plagiarism, copyright, fair use, and the rights they have as creators.
• iKeepSafe's- Their newly released Copyright and Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens is a wonderful set of lessons and videos for teaching students (including younger students) about intellectual property and creators' rights.
• 9 Lessons to Boost Media Literacy - From ISTE via media educator and author Frank Baker.

Workshop Toolkit

Concerned about boosting your students' search skills? Checkout our Just Google It! digital handout. We' posted links to all resources mentioned during our one-hour workshop, including the slideshow below

Tasked with teaching about copyright and fair use at your site or district? We've created a slideshow (shown below) with accompanying talking points and a Google Site we hope will save you time and energy. The slideshow and site incorporate resources from above (mainly from Renee Hobbs' and Common Sense Media) and are aimed at a one-hour session - that, better yet, could be extended to two hours by visiting all the hyperlinks on the slideshow - or even better, extended to three hours to include time for teachers (and students) to work with the Case Scenarios for Reasoning Fair Use. Between the talking points, the hyperlinks included with the slides, and any or all of the above resources, we hope we've boosted your confidence level in teaching the ethical components of media literacy!