Launched by Common Sense Media, the nonprofit known by parents, teachers and librarians for its high quality, nonpartisan reviews and its popular Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum, Graphite is the go-to platform for helping teachers make sense of an exponentially evolving number of digital learning tools. The site is not only free, it's also ad-free. The goal is to objectively and transparently review and rate educational technologies and to guide busy teachers to the best websites, games, apps and digital curricula that will augment their teaching and to relieve the time-consuming burden of searching, sorting and sifting.

Lesson plans here for middle school about digital citizenship.

The Digital Public Library of America is a huge collection of digitized artifacts and exhibits from museums and libraries across the United States. Through the DPLA you can find documents, books, images, audio recordings, and video clips. The DPLA is a new resource and only some of the artifacts are arranged into exhibits at this point. You can look for artifacts by location, time, or keyword search. Clicking on an artifact will open information about where it is housed and when it was created.

The collection is organized into sections for elementary school, middle school, and high school. There is a separate tab for parent resources. One of the things about the collection is that understanding copyright has been included as part of digital citizenship.

Great infographic about the state of public libraries.

This is an online course. Watch these videos to find out how to get the most out of Google Search.

Lots of links here to presentations about Google tools and searching.

Cute flash file that answers questions about copyright for students

This is a great copyright/fair use chart for teachers

Crash Course in Copyright...tons of information here, kinda scary!

With important groups such as ISTE, AASL and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills all calling upon schools to stress originality, imagination and creative production, the meaning of those terms along with related concepts such as synthesis, innovation

Here is a researched site that has the most current information on copyright in a digital age.

Great little flash video about what creative commons is all about.

Great resources here for teaching and learning about copyright in the 21st century.

This online tutorial is designed to assist faculty, staff, and students learn about the rights of a copyright owner and the legal exemptions that exist for educators, such as fair use. The tutorial was developed in three interactive modules and includes short videos, reference materials, case studies and a game.

Great resource about copyright, including multi-media.

This online tool helps you evaluate whether or not what you want to do is fair use or not. It provides a printable pdf at the end of the process of evaluation.

Site that will "stamp" the pictures you find and use from Flickr as to who owns them and what Creative Commons license they have. Check it out!