C&I Ed. Research Project

This article is about how to properly use educational multimedia. It discusses the guidelines necessary to using it, the limitations, and what sorts of permission is required in order to use it in the classroom. 

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

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!

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.

Animoto is the new platform for classroom animation and this meets the historical conversation!

If anyone knows how to cite for apa for animoto and use it fairly, let me know!

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.

Clears up some confusion about copyright issues and blogs.

It is must-read for those interested in blogging!

Adventure learning in a situated context is like a name your own adventure novel for high school and college students in Geography. Its application would work in any field for context-driven learning. Doering, A. et. al. (2007). Adventure learning: situating learning in an authentic context. Innovate 3 (6). Accessed on April 24, 2008. The article is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, The Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. For educational use only.

Great book about situated learning, kind of makes you feel like you are in a Liam Neeson movie and testing theories and such!

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!

Later History Text by Lapsansky-Werner, E.J. (2008). A discussion of the historical impact of the History of American Advertising. Writer of Lapsansky-Werner, E.J. (2008). U.S. History of Modern America: Boston, Pearson.

I liked this textbook that a teaching mentor loaned me and later I got a copy of it. It was broad but helpful and very good about giving educators a historians glimpse into history.

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 is an Article written by Wendy L. Werner about the importance of mentoring programs. The article discusses the effects that a good mentor can have on an individual. It also discusses how to be a good mentor as well as a good mentee. 

I've seen several mentor programs in which the mentor only wore the title but never actually played an active role in the student's life. So what I liked most about the article is the keypoint that stated that a mentor should "take initiative and make time". I think that if someone is going to be a mentor they must be actively involved in the mentee's life in order for progression to occur. A student is not going to feel that they can confide in their mentor until they have established a relationship. Just like in the classroom, students need to know that educators care. They need to feel a sense of belonging. When educators as well as mentors create a warm, caring environment students are more likely to open up or accomplish task to meet their mentor's or teacher's expectations!

Very good point, Jessica. That is well-said and very important! Because the teachers I liked were the ones I knew and ones who made a difference in my life by the time they gave.

This professionally created, animated YouTube video combines visual, text-based, and auditory learning with technology and humor to create a lasting memory in the minds of today's students. I find these kind of tools very successful in the classroom, and I think further researching them is very important. Made by the educational resource company "Ignite! Learning."

I think this video is a good technology tool to incorporate in U.S. History. Personally, history is one of my least favorite subjects because it is so boring! When learning about history there are so many historical figures and dates that it is almost impossible for students to remember all the material being presented. Therefore, as educators we must attempt to make learning enjoyable. Learning should consist of a variety of resources to enhance rentention of the information. I think this is definitely a video the students will remember!

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 explains some benefits afterschool programs offer to the schools and the community. It discusses how afterschool programs strengthen schools, families, and communities. The article emphasizes that a key part of developing an afterschool program is soliciting participation from many segments of the community.

As a former after-school caregiver, I know a little something about these programs. And I completely agree with the article's take on the benefits that stem from them. The fact that kids have a safe, fun, place to spend these hours amongst their peers and young-adult mentors...which allows their parents to spend that time working for those necessary extra dollars... which in turn helps a home's and community's stability...which creates stronger schools...which is the whole purpose!!! I saw this happen at schools completely geographically, ethnically, and economically different from one another, but the result was always positive.

Just like Josh I also worked for as a after school mentor. I to have seen all the benefits that after school programs have not only on the schools, but the communities as well. The school that I worked at had many students whose parents got off work to late and couldnt afford to send their children to day care for only a couple of hours. But because of this program that the school provided many parents were able to be at ease in knowing that their child was not only in safe place but around people that truly cared for them. The students got to participate in so many activities and even were invited back during the summer for a summer program. With this summer program students got to do so many activities and go on field trips to place they wouldve never gone to. This program was a huge success for this community in general and for the students as well.

The reason I picked this article is that it completly breaks down every part of copyright laws. It also has a chart that makes it easier to read and understand than just having to go through a whole bunch of text.

This site addresses the guidelines of Copyright and Fair Use policies. It is interesting because it separates what is allowed to students and what is allowed to teachers. Enjoy!

Now this is my favorite, it provides a glossary, frequently asked questions, answers, how to intergrate Copyright in the classroom and more Copyright resources!

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.