Fair Use, Copyright, and Educational Blogging

Last night someone on Twitter asked me for advice about how to respond to discovering that his blog posts were being re-used without permiss...

Get Creative Commons Savvy With These Activities

Yesterday, I shared the EFF's lesson plans for teaching copyright. After using those plans you may want to move your students on to unde...

5 Good Lesson Plans for Teaching Copyright

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a set of comprehensive lesson plans about copyright simply titled Teaching Copyright . Te...

Copyright on Campus - A Six Minute Exploration of the Nuances of Copyright

Copyright and Fair Use are cloudy areas for many students and educators to try to navigate. This evening I found Copyright on Campus which ...

A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 3

In part one of this series I shared some resources for creating a gallery of media to use in your classroom blog. In part two I shared som...

A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 1

A blog can get boring after a while if paragraphs of text is all that ever gets posted to it. More importantly, your students will get bored...

A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism is an infographic guide created by Kate Hart. The guide was published back in June, but I just learn...

8 Resources for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism

This morning in a workshop that I facilitated with Greg Kulowiec there was a great discussion about copyright, Creative Commons, and fair us...

5 Sources of Free Sound Effects and Music

This morning Greg Kulowiec and I are teaching a workshop on creating content in iBooks Author. I'm starting the morning with a discussi...

Behold - A Search Engine for Creative Commons Images

Behold is a search engine that is designed to help you find the best Creative Commons licensed images for your blog, slideshow, or video p...

Week in Review - A Big Thank You

I have to start this week in review by saying thank you to everyone that emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, and commented in support of my effort...

YouTube Launches Copyright School

Today, YouTube launched a redesigned copyright center and a brand new Copyright School . These new services are designed to educate YouTube...

Copyright & Creative Commons Webinar Today

I realize it's late notice, but I just remembered this myself and have to pass it along. MLTI (the overseers of Maine's 1:1 program)...

Lawrence Lessig Explains Creative Commons Licensing

Almost everyone knows what Copyright is, but say "Creative Commons" to a group of people and you're likely to see some confuse...

Creative Commons Search

When having students create digital productions like videos the safest way to make sure they avoid any copyright issues is to have them to u...

Illustrated and Narrated Explanation of Creative Commons

The nuances of Copyright and Creative Commons and the differences between them can be confusing. I recently came across this neat little vid...

Remix for Personalized Learning

Last week I gave a presentation ( slides here ) about free video creation tools that students and teachers can use in their classrooms. As a...

SlideFinder - A Search Engine for Slides

SlideFinder is a search engine for slides that I recently came across via the popular links section of Delicious. You might expect SlideFin...

Six Resources for Learning About Fair Use

Earlier today a group of us had a great dialogue about fair-use and copyright. The conversation got started when I posted the question, ...