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This article give the four factors and possibly a fifth factor used to resolve fair use disputes. It also includes information about acknowledgement and too small amount use.

This article talks about the characteristics of pbl, the reasons to use pbl, examples of pbl, and more. It serves a a great framework on how to get started.

I just took on the position of a 7th/8th grade math lab teacher and the person before me spent a lot of time using packets to teach the students material. I very quickly realized that this method only left the material in the students' mind for a day or two. So for the past week i've been trying to figure out exactly how to use methods of instruction like project-based learning. PLB is an amazing method that more teachers should be aware of, the only issue is that there seems to be a lot of planning up front for this to be a success. I've decided though, that if all that time of planning up front would help my students to KNOW mathematics, then it's worth it.

Reading the article and being a 7th grade math teacher I have realized that their are alot of teaching stratgies that could work if we had more time to actually focus on mastery and understanding. Alot of teachers are placed on calenders on what has to be taught. With the Texas curriculum being so data driven it has become hard for us to really use those fun teaching stratigies.

This research summarizes the application of fair use to meet the missions of the U.S. academic and research libraries. Sixty- five librarians were interviewed in this study. Each of them was asked about their employment and the five keys of practice. These librarians discussed how to apply fair use to their positions. The purpose of this study was to determine best practices in fair use. In the findings, librarians were found dedicated to their jobs and concerns about applying fair use and copyright limitations were provided for them at the end of this study.

A New York lawyer gives his interpretation of fair use. He summarizes the basics of copyright and fair use. He writes an opinion on when to ask permission to use something, and he discusses safe havens in fair use laws.

This website basically breaks down all the information that student athletes need in order to be awarded an athletic scholarship. It shows how parents can get involved and help as well as how students can prepare themselves academically and athletically.

The competition for ebooks and ereaders is intense and it is not getting to be more civil anytime soon.

I suppose now that ebooks are going mainstream, this will catapult lawyers and educators into more fair use and copyright issues.

This site is from the University of Central Florida Libraries giving all kinds of links to information about copyright and fair use laws in detail.

I wish I had this a while ago. It is a link to a million other links about Copyright and Fairuse. It gives you general guides on copyright and sources for CC and audio and videos.

Web 2.0 Literacy and Secondary Teacher Education Danielle Fahser-Herro and Constance Steinkuehler 2009 http://www.crste.org/images/Herro_Web20_Literacy.pdf Internet use strengthens literacy in students according to this study. In fact sometimes test scores improves in certain cases, not across the board.

A discussion of constructivists curriculums in which Posner played a major role. His 2004 book, Analyzing the Curriculum was popular in education classes, science and psychology classes. He changed the way Americans and educators thought about education. Posner, G. J. (2004). Analyzing the curriculum (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw Hill. http://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue4/nellie_deutsch.htm

Shelly Frei, 2007. Using blogging and webcasting as tools for teaching and education of students in K-12 environments. She makes it clear that this is the future of education. Frei, S. et. al. (2007). Integrating technology into the curriculum: professional development for successful classrooms. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.

Great book! Have been reading it lately for ideas!

A Teaching blogger's dream is about to begin. Someone once said that until something is shared it is just and idea that no one cares about. Blogging in Education is really getting popular now. Many teachers now have their own blog. Hussey, T. (2010). Create your own blog. Indianapolis, Indiana: Pearson Education.

Helpful for anyone who wants to create an educator's blog. I am thinking of using it this semester.

It is important with the blog to follow fair use and the following article shows how to do that: http://www.ehow.com/list_7397165_fair-use-copyright-laws-teachers.html It would seem that fair use is including information with apa citations, not too much information and credit. But the jury is still out on this.

I view (and use) this resource much like I do YouTube videos. It contains a massive store of diverse resources to use to explain or enhance lessons. I really utilize, and find success in capturing the kids' attention, the primary source resources history.com has--videos and pictures of old speeches and battles, original copies of documents. Doing so helps the kids relate the information, which may seem abstract to them, to actual, real-world things and occurrences!

This article lists all the benefits of attending a private school versus attending a public one.

I really enjoyed this article and definitely agree that students benefit from a private school education. I taught private Kindergarten for two years. The curriculum I taught was on a 1st and 2nd grade level and with the small student-teacher ratio (I had 10 kids max), I was able to work with students one on one and focus on each students weakness area to improve it. Also, at the end of the year, the students had benchmark tests they took and scored well above the percentile compared to other students their same age in the areas of math, reading, social awareness, etc. If financially feasible, I think students especially younger ones greatly benefit from private school. Great selection of article.

Here is another copyright and fair use chart.

I thought that it would come in handy. There is is another reference posted with a chart also, but I think that I like this one the best.

This was a great resourse. It gave me the information I needed in an easy read form. I wish that APA would do something similiar. When information is easy to read it makes it a tool and makes it easier for most people to do right when it comes to rules and laws.

This article discusses the role that computers play in the school and in children's social, emotional, and physical development. Technology is on the rise and as the year's progress, computers are being provided for students in the classroom. The question is does using technology in school raise students achievement. For the younger students computers were most effective on student learning when the teacher would use them for high thinking skills. Computers used in 12th grade history reported the more that students used computers outside the classroom their performances were higher on test scores. This study suggests that schools that provide technology applications should provide training for students to use these applications. In conjunction, schools should provide basic computer skills for students so that they can improve in their content areas.

I like the idea of providing technology training to students. It amazes me how many of my students don't have basic computer skills. I usually spend a lot of time just teaching them how to use a program.

Participants in this study included 122 preschool children, which included 57 boys and 65 girls in a head start program. The results indicated that 53% of the participants had a home computer and 83% had children software. There were 29% that played on their home computers daily. An additional 44% of the children played on the computer on a weekly basis. Children that had computer access showed improvement measures in cognitive development in this particular study.

This educational technology web article suggests websites that talk about copyright, fair use, and plagiarism. Each suggested website has a short description.

The article starts out by asking the question when professors send students papers to a database, are copyrights violated? This article discusses electronic tools being used to determine student plagiarism. Turnitin.com is a common electronic tool that professors and teachers provide for their students to turn in their papers. In the United States, 400 colleges use this website. Lawyers detect that this is an infringement on students copyright. The founder of turnitin.com apologized for violating student's rights and advised professors to advise students that copies of their papers will be checked and kept in the database for plagiarism. Then they discuss success stories of how professors and schools are not concerned with lawsuits.