I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty confused about copyright issues, and what students can and cannot legally do with images, videos, music, and audio in their online projects.
So I sent out a “tweet” on Twitter asking for what people thought were the most simple and accessible resources out there for teachers to learn more about this issue, and within thirty minutes received a wealth of links. I decided it was worth creating an other “The Best…” list.
I’ve divided this list into ones for teachers and ones for students. However, I gotta’ say that I personally gained a clearer understanding of copyright issues from some of the student links.
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Here are my Personal Learning Network’s choices for The Best Resources To Learn About Copyright Issues (though I have ranked them all by preference, I have listed my favorite at the top of each category):
FOR TEACHERS:
Copyright With Cyberbee (thanks to Melissa Techman and Craig Roland)
An entertaining and informative video on copyright (thanks to Tami Thompson)
Teaching Copyright is a curriculum from The Electronic Frontier Foundation (thanks to Weemooseus)
The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons is a must-read post by Ronnie Burt over at The Edublogger.
Long-Awaited Ruling in Copyright Case Mostly Favors Georgia State U. is pretty interesting.
The Copyright Genie is pretty cool.
Images, copyright, and Creative Commons is from Edublogs.
WE SHOULD CHOOSE TO TEACH COPYRIGHT … is from Gail Desler
An Extensive Guide to Copyright and Fair Use is from Richard Byrne.
Three Lessons to Learn from the $9.2M Copyright Ruling Against Houston ISD is from Richard Byrne.
The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons is from The Edublogger and has just been updated.
A Teacher’s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use is from Edutopia.
Demystifying copyright for teachers and students is from MindShift.
FOR STUDENTS:
Copyright Kids (thanks to Melissa Techman, Craig Roland, and Mary Beth Hertz)
Taking The Mystery Out Of Copyright was suggested by kimwren1.
How to Identify Mysterious Images Online is from MindShift.
Share This Letter With Students to Show Them the Cost of Copyright Infringement is from Richard Byrne.
What You Need to Know About Copyright is from TechNotes.
Thanks to everybody who sent-in links!
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Great list. Thank you.
Just wanted to point out there’s a portal for copyright and fair use information – Stanford Copyright and Fair Use site (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/). Disclaimer: I intern for one of the site sponsors.
Maybe I missed it but here are my fav. things for teachers.
Of course the wonderful (and recent winner of a great award for his website conx.org) Richard Baraniuk. His voice quivers with intelligence and find him on TED Talks along with Larry Lessig who gives the perfect presentation and arguement for a world of FREE intellectual development. If you also do public speaking classes – his is an example of a near perfect delivery of content and emotion…..
I really am a big big big fan of Richard Stallman. He’s a hero of mine, very little recognized but he gets it – how we need open source and participatory culture in our online world. (he created the GNU O/S ). You can find his videos and talks about copyright online. Very thorough, intelligent and from experience and his heart….
I think all children should know how “jailed” Mickey Mouse is!
David
http://eflclassroom.com