Westport Public Schools - ITL

getting permissions for video, music and media

"Project-Based Learning Professional Development Guide An overview of the Edutopia professional development guide for teaching how to use project-based learning in the classroom. By Edutopia Staff This guide is organized into six sections: Introduction Why Is PBL Important? What Is PBL About? How Does PBL Work? Workshop Activities Resources for PBL"

"Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies. The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise - beginner, intermediate and advanced- as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google maps."

"Uploaded by takepart on May 13, 2010 Want to find out how a bill REALLY becomes a law? It's not as simple as it used to be back in the Schoolhouse Rocks days. Our Congressmen have to choose between our interests and the money of major corporations...No wonder why he's still stuck on the steps to the Capitol building."

"GoogleGuide" making searching even easier

cms tech website

The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world.

The Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property in American University Washington College of Law, and the Media Education Lab of Temple University are conducting a project 2007-2009 to clarify fair use in media education, with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This project will help media literacy educators understand their rights under the doctrine of fair use in order to help them more effectively use media as an essential part of their teaching.

Currently for PC users only.

We watched this really cool webcast in Grade 3 at LLS

a metasearch for video that looks at videos on Hulu, CNN, ESPN, Comedy Central, and MetaCafe

"WWII: Women in the Fight"