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Monday, April 30, 2012 Copyright or Wrong: So What’s Fair Use Anyway?

Copyright or Wrong: So What’s Fair Use Anyway? is a new workshop offered by Cooperating School Districts. This half-day professional development session is July 27th from  8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 1460 Craig Road in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

Confused about copyright and how it impacts you and your students? Come learn about some basic ‘big ideas” in copyright, including Fair Use and Creative Commons licensing.  Leave this workshop with a clearer understanding of the issues and a thoughtful process to think through them. We will explore a variety of practical tools and copyright-friendly resources that will enable you and your students to be creative and share their work with the world. Costs: $75 CSD member; $89 non-member. New summer pricing makes this half-day workshop just $56 CSD member; $67 non-member.  Register here.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Learning About Media Literacy and the K-12 Classroom

Using digital media to help build critical thinking and communication skills is a life long craft necessary for our 21st century learners. Today’s participants in Stephanie Madlinger’s  Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum shared instructional strategies that work and discovered how to measure learning outcomes for students and teachers. Experiences with copyright and fair use were discussed, as well as how to create safe and legal projects for the classroom.

Stephanie, who is on the Board of Directors for the Gateway Media Literacy Partners (GMLP), also shared information on Marshall McLuhan (among a large group of resources!). Not familiar with Marshall McLuhan’s work? See this video of him talking about media literacy. The class also talked about developing, managing, and sharing multimedia work of both students and teachers. See more photos of today’s new class on Flickr.

Also note that 2011 Media Literacy Week in St. Louis, Missouri, is November 6-12th. If you are interested in learning more about this topic, be sure to mark you calendar- there will be many events to attend!

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Thursday, May 19, 2011 Coming Soon! Connecting Digital & Print Literacy – Creating Book Trailers

Explore rich digital media & interactive learning through visualization!

Book trailers are a great way to connect digital and print literacy in a real-world application. In this class, (a Midwest Education Technology Conference precon sell-out workshop!) learn how to create and manage a book trailer project in your classroom. We will make book trailers using Photostory 3 – a free Microsoft download. The class will cover how to help your students select their audience, and decide how to construct their message to accomplish the persuasive goal of the trailer. We will touch on copyright compliance issues and practice finding acceptable images and music.  Creating voice-overs using the free download Audacity program will be demonstrated. Skills covered during the day can be applied to any subject area and any grade level, so won’t you join us?

Connecting Digital and Print Literacy – Creating Book Trailers
Monday, June 13, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the tele at Cooperating School Districts
$149 CSD member; $189 non-member | (One Graduate Credit Available) | Register here.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 Archived 2011 METC Sessions Available Until August

The following METC 2011  sessions are still available as video on-demand- at no cost!

•  The Kids Need Us –and– Technology  and  Hordes of Free Tools from a Google Certified Teacher from keynote Rushton Hurley
•  I’m Leading, Is Anyone Following? from Howie DiBlasi
•  Living on the Future Edge from keynote Lee Crockett
•  Tammy’s Favorite Technology Tips from Tammy Worcester
•  Teaching “Wired” Learners from Kevin Honeycutt
•  8-Track Tapes, Covered Wagons & Textbooks: There is a Better Way from Scott Kinney
•  Copyright Clarity: Remix & Fair Use in Education from Renee Hobbs
•  Gadget A-Go-Go: Fabulous Freebies, Great Gadgets, Tasty Tools, & Sweet Sites that Go the Distance! from Gwyneth Ann Jones
•  Paperless Classroom for Under $100 from Torrence Temple
•  Student Publishing & Remixing: Keeping it Safe & Legal Panel Discussion with Renee Hobbs, Gwyneth Ann Jones & Rushton Hurley

A special thanks to Chris Hayes at IDSolutions for archiving these Midwest Education Technology Conference presentations. They will be available until August 2011. METC is a program of the Virtual Learning Center of Cooperating School Districts. Following the conference on Twitter at @metc_csd.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011 New Class! Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum

Little hands need digital learning, too! Come learn how to help promote safe, effective student work in the 21st century. In this class, we will learn about how to integrate media literacy and digital technology across the K-12 education curriculum. Using digital media to help build critical thinking and communication skills is a life long craft necessary for our 21st century learners. Participants will share instructional strategies that work and discover how to measure learning outcomes for students and teachers. We will share experiences with copyright and fair use while creating safe and legal projects for the classroom.

Discussion will occur about developing, managing, and sharing multimedia work of both students and teachers. What steps should be taken to legally and effectively promote digital media projects in education? Learn where to find and how to properly cite music, video clips, images and more. Leave this class with information about media literacy in order to formulate your own plan for integrating technology. Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum is July 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Cooperating School Districts in St. Louis, Missouri. This new tele class costs $149 for a CSD member and $189 for a non-member. Graduate credit is available for this class, too. Register here.

photo found on Flickr Creative Commons

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Civil War Photos in 3D from The Library of Congress

From Flickr: The Library of Congress has published a very special batch of 3D photographs commemorating the start of the Civil War in 1861. Today marks the 150th anniversary.

To read the full blog post from Flickr, and to see some of the images, click here! Very cool! There are no known copyright restrictions on these photos. What does that mean? Learn more on this here.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Copyright Sessions at METC 2011

Copyright can be a confusing topic- there are several sessions at the 2011 Midwest Education Technology Conference that address it:

Precon: Connecting Digital and Print Literacy: Creating Book Trailers from Jerri Davenport. While presenting about book trailers, Jerri will touch on copyright compliance issues, and time will be given to find acceptable images and music.

Precon: Digital Copyright for 21st Century Skills from Barry Britt. His workshop will help participants become confident in the proper (and legal) use of digital content in multimedia and technology.

Precon: Learning to Love Multimedia (A Workshop for Beginners) from keynote speaker Rushton Hurley. Rushton’s workshop will include discussions of teaching and learning concerns related to video-including content focus, copyright, assessment, and use of digital video with students with limited language capacity and/or learning disabilities.

Copyright Clarity: Remix and Fair Use in Education from featured speaker Renee Hobbs will cover helping students and colleagues understand their rights and responsibilities to make fair use of copyrighted materials under the law.

Digital Citizenship 101: Practical Approaches to Apply in the Classroom from Drew McAllister, Amy Johnson of the Parkway School District. Drew and Amy will address online profiles, social networking, cell phones, collaborative online applications, and copyright-friendly web resources.

METC is a program of Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Creating Book Trailers Class this April

Connecting Digital and Print Literacy – Creating Book Trailers will be April 19 & 26, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm each evening at Cooperating School Districts’ tele. The cost is $138 for a CSD member and $214 for a non-member. Additionally, one graduate credit is available with this course.

ABOUT Connecting Digital and Print Literacy: Book trailers are a great way to connect digital and print literacy in a real-world application. Learn how to create and manage a book trailer project in your classroom. We will make book trailers using PhotoStory 3 – a free Microsoft download. The class will cover how to help your students select their audience, and decide how to construct their message to accomplish the persuasive goal of the trailer. We will touch on copyright compliance issues and practice finding acceptable images and music. Creating voice-overs using the free download Audacity program will be demonstrated as well. Skills covered during this very popular class can be applied to any subject area and any grade level. If you want to register, click here.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 February tele schedule

Here’s some of what we have lined up for February in Cooperating School Districts’ tele:

iphotoUsing iPhoto in the Classroom
Feb. 10, 4-7 pm
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member
Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos your students and you have been taking. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse…

Using iMovie ’08 in the Classroom
Feb. 12, 4-7 pm
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member
Movie ’08 makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so all the clips you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface, iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library and create new movies…

prometheanTransforming Learning with a Promethean Activboard
Feb. 17, 9 am-4 pm
$125 CSD member; $195 non-member
The Promethean Activboard combines the look and feel of a regular whiteboard with the power of a computer. Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of it and motivate students to learn.  This class is for beginners; no prior knowledge of Promethean Activboards required…

Online “Street Smarts:” Being Legal, Literate, and Secure
Feb. 24 & 25 , 4-7 pm each night
$125 CSD member; $195 non-member
Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the iSAFE curriculum and the modules available to them in the classroom. They will create model lessons for their students that teach Internet Safety, Literacy, and Intellectual Property/Copyright…

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Friday, October 10, 2008 Teaching Students How to be Safe Online

Cooperating School Districts (CSD) is an education consortium serving 64 public school districts in Missouri and Illinois. CSD strives to share the latest in emerging technologies. The Virtual Learning Center at CSD teaches educators how to integrate technology into the classroom. Technology is a tool that prepares students with the higher order thinking and questioning skills needed for the workforce. When students work with technology and the Internet, they are required to use these skills. Each project they work on is, in essence, a performance task. Our cyber safety course shares how to get online and use the resources found there safely and effectively. This course does have 1 graduate credit available; see registration website.

Online “Street Smarts:” Being Legal, Literate, and Secure
Feb 24 & 25, 2009 from 4-7pm | $125 CSD member; $195 non-member

What dangers lurk online for our children? We teach them how to be safe within the physical community, but what about safety in the cyber community? Learn the Internet Safety concepts of:

  • Cyber Security
  • Personal Safety
  • Cyber Bullying
  • Cyber Predators

Do students know how to validate information found on the Web? Too often, information published on the Internet is viewed as truth, but is it really? Also, what about copyright? Do students have the legal right to copy and paste information from a website into their multi-media presentations and/or their own documents and websites? In addition to Internet Safety, learn the new grammar of the Web and how to:

  • Read URL web addresses to find their hidden meaning
  • Locate owners of websites
  • Evaluate the validity of a website
  • Investigate fair use as it applies to student-created digital documents

Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the iSAFE curriculum and the modules available to them in the classroom. They will create model lessons for their students that teach Internet Safety, Literacy, and Intellectual Property/Copyright.

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