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This article discusses the components of vertical alignment. This is an informational piece for teachers to understand all that vertical alignment entails.

This article discusses the components of vertical alignment. This is an informational piece for teachers to understand all that vertical alignment entails.

This link provides a chart for teachers to use when implementing technology into the classroom. It tells you what you can and cannot do for copyrighted material.

In this article you will find how universities can make their students aware of how Fairuse. I know for myself I was not prepared for copyright and fair use but this article is very informative about its purposes. It also includes different links to other helpful sites for copyright and fairuse that may benefit the teacher or students.

On this site you will find what a Mentor Text is, top picks for mentor texts, suggestions for applying the texts to your writing and many more. It tells you how to classify your Mentor Texts for times when your focosuing on one single skill.

Download this pdf for free as a free member. It is great about classroom management. IT is from the George Lucas foundation

Best practices policies for uses of various forms of media.

This is one of the very first articles I came across when looking for my information. It also breaks things down and demonstrates what should be focused on and why. Numbers again play a major part in this article and this article also introduces how youtube can be used. I know that many college coaches now use skype to talk to prospective athletes if they live far.

This is a good resource for copyright and fair use involving media.

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.

So, this article talks about 3 stratgies teachers need in order to have that effective learning environment for students.Having an effective learning environment is key to the success of students while also having that bag of tricks(withitness).Second, it goes into detail what teachers need to give students which is: better planning and also set clear rules and expectations

This is a very insightful article. As a newer instructor, I found these tips both useful and relevant. This will be useful not just for this class, but it will be something I'll rely on in the future.

According to this article, regular use of computers has an effect on student performance. In this study, they used 986 fourth graders from 55 classrooms in nine Massachusetts school districts. Most of the students only used computers to write their papers. However, they found that students that used their computers for fun and games had a negative effect on students reading scores. As long as students used the computers for writing purposes this had positive effects on their test scores.

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.

Several benefits have been reported for distance education. This report studied several factors: content area, grade level, role of distance learning, role of instructor, length of program, type of school, frequency of distance program, instructional pacing, timing of instruction, instructor preparation and experience, and setting of students.

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 video shows the importance of cameras on school buses and how they hold everyone accountable, help the driver focus more on driving rather than constantly having to monitor children through the mirror and how the cameras act as a silent witness in observing and reporting student behavior on the bus.

I think it is an awesome idea to put cameras on school buses because just like the driver said in the video, it is impossible to properly monitor the students while trying to watch traffic as well. As a child, there was always something going on in the back of the bus and when the driver asked what happened, no one saw anything! Therefore, I think cameras on the bus is a great idea to help ensure student's safety.

You can't go wrong with cameras on a school bus. The summer following my freshmen year in high school, I would ride the bus to summer school everyday. The bus picked us up from what was considered to be one of the worst neighborhoods in the community. Everyone that rode that bus got along with one another very well, however there was still bullying going on. The bullying was not student to student, it was student to bus driver. That poor man endured so much harassment from the students that after about 2 weeks he quit. Students would throw things at him while he was driving (paper, candy, you name it). I don't see how he got us to school and back alive with so many distractions. No one got in trouble for the way the bus driver was treated because there were no cameras on that bus. After he quit they sent a new bus to pick us up, it did have cameras. That was the end of that. I think this video was short and straight to the point. It is much more safe for everyone to have cameras on the bus.

In this article National Public Radio discusses how the issue of fair use has come to the for front in recent years particularly in the television and music industry. However the case of copyrighting, those who support fair use feel that taping tv shows, downloading music or accessing you tube isn't considered copyrighting if these practices are used for non-monetary purposes. The issue of fair use has prompted several lawsuits and the article outlines 4 of these that are recent.

In this article, Lawrence Lessing, a professor of law at the Harvard law school looks at how the idea of copyright has evolved over the past century and implicates much copyright issues attributed to advancement in technology, particularly the internet. He suggests changing the law on how copyrighting is viewed and points out copyrighting laws must evolve as the digital age we live in keeps evolving.

As a history teacher, I love how Professor Lessing connects something like copyright law to the Constitution, and weaves us through the decades and centuries of change and development. I am always looking for ways to connect history, such as the passages and amendments of the Constitution, to areas that affect my students' daily lives. Copyright law is just such a thing for these kids, with all the electronics, technologies, and downloading they do. They will see the relevance immediately, and therefore focus better and and up learning more!

This article gives guidelines for using information in video format.

This article discusses the effectiveness of mentoring and the importance of the relationship between a mentor and an adolescent. 

I really liked this article. My sister is a single mom of 2 pre teens and it is definitely important for children to have other adults they can talk to and relate to to help them avoid feeling isolated and sad. Both of my sister's kids have other important adult figures in their lives and I feel this is the best preventative measure against teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol, deliquency and high school drop-out. I like how the article also stresses how schools play an important part in being mentors for students. This applies to para professionals and other school workers such as food service and bus drivers, not just teachers. Knowing you can have a positive impact in adolescence is very rewarding in itself.