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This article can benefit anyone who is an educator. We will all have students in our classroom with a disability and this article gives way to vary instruction and incorporate ways to make sure the student is learning the same as any other student. Reading IEPs thoroughly and knowing ways to modify curriculum for the student with disability is key.

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.

Vocational Education meets Research in the dynamic classroom of Linda Darling-Hammond, 2008. The students are doing the research, teaching and learning. They control their own destiny and they are taking the world by storm! They are not waiting to be taught, they are teaching each other and themselves as teams of researchers. Darling-Hammond, L. (2008). Powerful learning: what we know about teaching for understanding. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

I read this book and what the author says is really revolutionary. She has students work in teams as researchers and collaborate while doing research separately. She says students are scientists and classroom homework is research. They should be teaching the teachers, she thinks. Especially, they are beyond us in technology knowledge!

This Article is about the basics of copyright law. Understanding the law will help people not to break them. 

The easier the article to read the easier it is to understand. This article gets to the point and helps teachers focus on what it is they need to know and what to do.

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.

This article summarizes the basics of scientific inquiry and how it can be used. It also provides the recommendations of the National Science Teachers Association, NSTA, involving scientific inquiry in the classroom.

This is a good video for students to learn about copyright.

I was just saying I wish I was educated on copyright and fairuse when I was in school, I am glad they have something for the babies to learn. This will be beneficial to them now because they are using technology more and more .

I also saw this website. I thought that it would be a good educational tool to use in the classroom.

This article is amazing! It talks about how pbl can be used in the 21st century and what the benefits of it will be. It is a true introduction. It talks about how a project is usually an extra piece of a lesson...but in a pbl classroom the project is at the center of the lesson.

In this article, examples are given from teachers about their experiences with their opinions about copyright and teaching practices. It discusses how copyright laws are provided for educational use. Insight is given to how teachers can misunderstand fair use and how teachers cope. According to the interviews in this study, teachers are not impressed with copyright rules.

This article gives statistical data to back up the research that distance learning students had no higher GPA compared to face-to-face students. The research indicated that further studies were needed.

The articles provides readers with the basic laws of copyright to clear any misconceptions. In this article it discusses how students and teachers can tell if an article or book is copyrighted, rights of the copyright holder, and duration of copyright protection.

This artlicle about the some recent technologies and copyright. It highlight the use of wikis and blogs and copyright use.

This website is the "law" version of copyright and fair use. I felt it was a good resource because sometimes it is better to see the law rather than an interpretation. It is broken down it to catergories. If you just wanted to know the law about music, you can see what the law is pertaining to that area.

This article sheds a light on how bus drivers can have positive impacts on students academic and social success in school. While bus drivers have a hard job, they are the first and last educator a student sees each day and they too can have lasting effects on a child they drive each day.

While this article focuses on how librarians feel about and deal with the complexities of copyright and fair use rules, I find it relevant and valuable for classroom teachers too. Fear of plagiarism and copyright infringement in our classrooms is real, and can restrain us from implementing resources just as much as it can librarians.

This article contains an example of an innovative teacher tackling a complex issue in a way students will love and remember. That is, she turned a potentially tedious lesson on copyright and fair use rules into an opportunity for students to create scripts, lines, and act out their understanding of the subject!

Good idea. I like learning new teaching tips and tricks.

This is an animoto that provides an example of how technology can be used in the classroom. It also briefly shows that teachers should know how and when to use technology to get students involved and/or engaged in the learning process.

Interesting animoto I might add. Teachers should utilize every resource that is available to them in the classroom. Sometimes discussions can be dry and boring when you utilize the same chalk or blackboard. The only problem is that you have to monitor student's use of the computer on a regular basis. Do not get me wrong I enjoy having computers in my classroom. You just need to make sure that students are constantly following the AUP policy in the district that you teach.

I really liked that animoto. It is one that I think that should start off the school year at a faulity meeting. There are so many ways to use technology and keep students engaged. I wish that some of people at my school would stop being so scared to use it.

This video explains that standardized testing places pressure on students, causes teachers to teach to the test, doesn't allow critical thinking by the student, and it is not a good tool to measure students' actual abilities. After explaining some of the disadvantages in the video, the creator makes some suggestions on how the standardized test can be improved to best meet the needs of the students.