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Show this to everyone in education!! Take a look at this powerful story about today's world and the impact of technology on education. Download the Windows Media Player version or the Quicktime version of the movie and take a look. Copyright, copyleft and plagiarism links WebQuests for learning about plagiarism and copyright: From the Trunk of the Old Elm Tree is a WebQuest for 5th and 6th grade students by Ellis. Excellent WebQuest for high school students by Janice Cooper. Liberal copyright permission is granted. For details, see bottom of WebQuest page. Plagiarism, How to Cite Online Sources is another WebQuest for grades 6, 7, and 8. Built by Jocelyn Kagan and Susan Victor, the WebQuest also has liberal copyright permissions. You may have to make some modifications as some links need to be updated. It provides a nice foundation to build upon. This nicely laid out Copyright Website provides an excellent overview of copyright and includes a section on Open Source, GNU and GPL licensing, fair use and more. It also provides some prime examples that students will enjoy looking at and discussing. Samples from music and movies in major copyright lawsuits are included. 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained provides information about the common misconceptions of copyright in layman's terms. This Crash Course in copyrights will provide a good overview of copyright law. Also has a quiz to test your knowledge. The Creative Commons website provides easy to understand licensing that generally allows others to use your work and/or modify. Various licenses are available under Creative Commons and on this site you can generate your license for posting on your website or on work you have created. WEBQUESTS While we are on the subject of WebQuests - check these sites out for many examples of WebQuests - all subject areas/all levels: Bernie Dodge's site provides links to a multitude of Web Quests. This site by the "Father of WebQuests" includes a forum, links to an article database and a new WebQuest garden to help you build your WebQuest. Best WebQuests provides links to many WebQuests - all subject areas, all grade levels. Tom March has the best 194 WebQuest reviewed out of 1191. His focus is on the "true" WebQuests that endeavor to promote critical thinking rather than gain knowledge or learn facts. He focuses on WebQuests that support a New 3Rs: Real, rich and relevant. TechTrekker WebQuests provides multiple sources for WebQuests. Covers a large variety of subject areas and grade levels. T-spider net is an interactive site that will step you through creating your first WebQuest - with students involved. If you have any outstanding links to WebQuests or other emerging technologies that would benefit MTT candidates or teachers, please contact Janice Butler. |
Citing your Work |
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Noodle Tools
provides a resource that will "build" your citation for either MLA or
APA format. While it will build only one citation at a time,
it is very useful for small projects and papers. They also
have a nifty
page with strategies for using technology collaboratively
with multiple links to ideas and projects. The link to 21st Century Literacies includes reading, writing - and also technological literacy. Also included are links for accessing the invisible web. The Citation Machine will also "build" citations for students. |
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will have luck avoiding pop-ups, malware and other annoying problems if
you use alternatives to Internet Explorer. Free to download
and use, many problems disappear when you switch. Occasionally, you may have a problem loading a certain page - but this seldom happens, and the benefits quickly outweigh any slight problems you may encounter. As an added bonus, most of the virus "attacks" center on Explorer and leave the others alone. Try some of these out and you may be quite pleasantly surprised. Opera - Opera is a powerful tool that gives you more options when surfing the Web. It is faster, safer and easier to use than your current browser. Opera has too many features to mention in this column, so check them out yourself. Firefox by Mozilla - There’s a lot to do on the Web and Firefox 2 is full of helpful features to make your time online more productive. Tabbed browsing, spellcheck and more features. In the nice orange and blue colors that the new Microsoft copied. Netscape is an oldie - but goodie. Predates Windows Explorer. Has multiple features including tabbed browsing and anti-spyware protection. Try any or all - you won't be disappointed. |
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Teacher
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Rubrics and Online Portfolio from the Tech Connected Teacher |
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