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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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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 There are now over 200 million Creative Commons photos on Flickr

Did you hear? Now on Flickr there are 200 million Creative Commons photos and counting! Flickr says: “We are proud to announce that – thanks to you – we now have 200 Million (and counting) public Creative Commons licensed photos on Flickr. This makes us the largest CC photo repository in the world!”  Read more- and see more- here.

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Monday, September 12, 2011 NEW! Library Media Specialist (LMS) Academy

“Library media specialists empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.” (AASL)

The Virtual Learning Center’s new LMS Academy focuses on the changing role of the Library Media Specialist in K-12 education today. Today’s LMS must play the versatile role of an instructional partner responsible for ensuring that students and staff are efficient and effective users of information. The academy will assist LMS personnel in teaching and connecting the new standards of AASL, ISTE and the NETS. Registration is open for all library media specialists to attend. Participants will:

  • Learn how to develop lessons that support the AASL, ISTE & NETS Standards
  • Understand the meaning of media literacy as it applies to 21st century skills
  • Network with colleagues working in school libraries across the area and globally
  • Learn digital tools that promote effective use of digital media for K12 students
  • Examine problem based activities, plus web & media literacy lessons
  • Examine best practices for Copyright & Fair Use
  • Explore digital citizenship and literacy curriculum resources
  • Contribute in an online learning community, such as Moodle or SchoolTown
  •   Research books by LMS experts such as Joyce Valenza & Kathy Schrock (one of the featured speakers at this year’s METC)
  •   Participate in 40 hours of blended learning professional development
  •   Attend one day of the Midwest Education Technology Conference

Participants will have an option to earn 3.0 credits through Lindenwood University for an additional cost of $60 per credit hour.

Dates and times of participation:

face-to-face classes at CSD

  • October 27 ~ 4- 7 pm LMS Academy Kickoff
  • November 7 ~ 8:30- 3:30 pm ~ Media Literacy tele class
  • December 8 ~ 4- 7 pm LMS academy class
  • January 26 ~ 8:30-3 :30 pm ~ Digital Citizenship tele class
  • March 8~ 4-7 pm LMS Academy Celebration

additional online and outreach activities

  • November 2 ~ online CSDVLC webinar 4- 5 pm
  • November 6-12 ~ Media Literacy Week in St. Louis ~ attend choice of event(s)
  • December 7 ~ online Free Cool Tools webinar 4- 5 pm
  • January 18 ~ online Digital Citizenship webinar 4- 5 pm
  • February 14 ~ attend 1 day of METC

Cost: $495 CSD Members/$595 Non-members. If you have questions, contact Stephanie Madlinger at smadlinger@csd.org or 314-692-1212.

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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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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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Monday, February 22, 2010 Internet Safey Class @ CSD Next Week

St. Louis area educators, do you want to learn the Internet Safety concepts of:

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

Do you worry about the dangers that lurk online for our children? We teach them how to be safe within the physical community, but what about safety in the cyber community? In this class, learn how you can help your students navigate the world wide web- safely. For instance, do you and your 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.

On March 3 & 4, come to CSD for Online “Street Smarts:” Being Legal, Literate, and Secure.

The class runs 4:00 – 7:00 pm each evening and costs $138 for CSD member and $214 for non-members. To sign up, click here.

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Friday, January 11, 2008 Internet Safety Professional Development Available

NEW DATES! Feb. 25 & 26 4-7 p.m.  


tele logoOne of the neat things about our blog is I am able to read what posts garner the most attention.  Lately, “Internet Safety” has gotten a lot of hits.  St. Louis area teachers, if this is a topic that interests you, remember that the VLC‘s tele classes include Online Street Smarts: Being Legal, Literate, and Secure. The next sessions are in February. Learn about Cyber Security, Personal Safety, Cyber Bulling, Cyber Predators; learn how to read URLs to find their hidden meaning, locate website owners, evaluate a website’s validity, and investigate fair use as it applies to student-created digital documents. You get so much info, it is actually a two night course.  Once you leave the class, you will feel more confident about working online in your classes! 

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