Turnitin created the SEER (Source Educational Evaluation Rubric) to help teach students how to evaluate the sources they use in their writing. A number of educators tested the rubric on the most popular websites that students use for sourcing material. How did these websites rank? Take
I'm pretty sure I found this app listed by a reputable resource.
Here's why it's not yet worthy of accolades...
The app is easy to get, but you also need to pay an annual access fee. It's something like $4.99, be warned, if that is mention in the app description, it could be easy to overlook. ADDING STUDENTS: to add students, you have to add each individually; fine if you have one class, but an inconvenience if you have more. The objective is to track your assignments and use of Common Core Standards. Adding an assignment does not include the ability to write a description of the assignment; it does not allow you score by a rubric; it does not allow you add comments. A lot of work still needs to be done.
"The links in the navigation bar will access pages in this wiki. You will find:
Links to video tutorials
Printable User's guides
Links to additional resources
Ideas for integration in many content areas
Examples of student projects
Rubrics for student assessment
Comments on special features and/or tips for using the tools"
By developing this wiki with reading lists, information on texts, study guides, rubrics, book trailers, book reviews, directions and general requirements, students in years 9-12 (and their parents) have a head start on the year's required reading for English classes. Well done to Joyce Valenza for supporting her students in this manner.
washington state university - , to highlight the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across traditional boundaries of viewpoint, practice, and discipline.
The Center for Social Media has created a set of teaching tools for professors who are interested in teaching their students about fair use. The tools include powerpoints with lecture notes, guidelines for in-class discussions and exercises, assignments and grading rubrics. We hope you'll find them useful!
These powerpoints with lecture notes were designed to help professors teach students the basic information they need to understand how to use fair use when making documentary fllms and online videos
Fair Use Scenarios: (To be used with the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use) Here are 4 filmmaking scenarios where students are called upon to determine whether they have a fair use right to use certain copyrighted footage, and if there are limits to that right.
Here are two sets of fair use clips for professors to use for in-class discussio
Here are guidelines for a short video production assignment that requires students to incorporate copyrighted material into a video and defend the decisions they make using the Code of Best Practices in Online Video.
Additionally, here is an assignment, similar to the discussion prompts above, that requires students to articulate why a video clip is fair use.
Here is a collection of videos that do a good job of explaining the Codes of Best Practices and the idea of Fair Use: