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YouTube's video and short quiz designed to help young people better understand use of intellectual property relating to re-posting and remixing. In the video, young pirate Russell copies a music video on his cell phone and posts in on YouTube. He is warned that he could loose his booty and get banned for life! The film goes on to discuss remixing, fair use, and the possibility of YouTube takedowns, with a small print approach to the legal-eze. It encourages the creation of original work. The tone is intentionally comic melodramatic, in 1950s instructional cartoon style.

Goodreads is a privately run "social cataloging" website started in December 2006 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer and entrepreneur. The website permits individuals to sign up and register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists. It also allows users to create their own groups of book suggestions and discussions. In December 2007, the site had over 650,000 members and over 10,000,000 books added. As of July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and 30 employees.

Explains who owns the work we create on the job.

teacher resources for classroom video

Good technology resources for middle school students.

TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS.

This lesson focuses on introducing students to Google and the search syntax "AND." It also begins the discussion about where ads appear on a Google Search result as well as other websites.

This lesson focuses on learning if you can trust a website based on its looks.

This lesson focuses on domain extensions and the Google Search Syntax sit as well as how to turn on reading levels in Google Advanced Search.

This lesson focuses on domain extensions and finding current research.

Lots of resources to help educators and librarians use technology with students.  Includes great app resommendations, rubrics, resources to create class web pages, and a wealth of other technology information.

Lots of resources including activity pages, books and reading, collection development, crafts, homework and reference tools, and professional improvement from the Nebraska Library Commission

Educational Technology