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Anytime you have students using the internet for research then you 'should' be teaching about copyright. It is something that we as teachers often ignore, but it's an important lesson to learn and to share with our students. This is a recorded presentation by Wes Fryer. Worth a listen, some simple applicable points that you can immediately incorporate into your classroom.

How do I know if my use is a fair use? This tool has been developed to help teachers and students reason through the fair use process. You can see an example of how this tool is being used HERE Use the form online. The data from this form feeds into a google spreadsheet so you can compare how individuals or groups reason the fair use of copyrighted material in a work. If you would like to use this form in your work you can click here. If you have a google account, you can sign in and copy into your google account.

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft is a great site for CC licensed media. If you are having students create digital products this is where they (and you) need to start for images, audio, and video that is legal and ethical to use. 

Have been looking for more cc (creative commons) or copyright free photos to use in the work I'm doing. Catherine Rubin and I have been discussing the issues involved in cc. Here's another site that might provide more options to teachers looking to include images in the work they are doing.

A resource to inform yourself about modern copyright issues and some other good information about integrating media into instruction.

Through its Copyright Advisory Group, the Australian Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) has published a Creative Commons information pack online, a bundle of eight documents that distills the basics of CC licensing and the philosophy behind it. This pack is a great resource for educators and students, and we encourage you to use it in your schools by adapting it however you like. Read more: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13982#ixzz0MJNj0MUM Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

Easy tool to have students create connections between text and pictures. If the pictures from the site are used the issue of copyright won't be a problem. I like that it is incredibly easy to use.

Great source of creative commons material for presentations and digital products. A must resource if working with people new to the idea of creative commons and copyright issues. 

Another description of the creative commons discussion and working with students to develop their understanding of what they can and 'should' do when creating classroom presentations.

Making connections to prior knowledge to assist in the learning of math concepts - using number lines, various examples provided.

Please note that I did not intentionally violate the terms of NCTM copyright when I posted this page... I have tried to delete the bookmark and am unable to do so...

Creating Connections: Promoting Algebraic Thinking with Concrete Models

Creating Connections: Promoting Algebraic Thinking with Concrete Models - the article elaborates on the use of concrete models to teach polynomial topics.

Please note that I did not intentionally violate the terms of copyright for NCTM when I shared this page... I have tried to delete the page and am not able to do so at this time.

interesting photo search tool.