3 YouTube Tricks All Teachers Should Know

#1 - Turn Off Recommended Videos 

#2 - Share YouTube Videos at Specific Starting Times

#3 - Chop a YouTube Video Down to a Small Clip

*DragonTape is another useful tool for chopping and splicing YouTube videos.

Creative Commons Posters (Part I)

I've been doing a lot of work on Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons this week.  And you all know that this subject is about as fun as a kick in the head. In fact, a kick in the head is probably what it takes to understand licensing and attribution.

The more I thought about this subject, the more I thought classrooms and libraries could use some reference posters to help students and teachers understand the rights granted under the Creative Commons. The information on this poster was taken directly from the Creative Commons website with minor editing.

I have licensed the poster under Creative Commons, so feel free to download, print, and share.

You can download the poster here in .png format and pdf format. It is meant to be printed as 11X17. 

This is the first in series of posters on the Creative Commons, Public Domain, and proper attribution. Check out poster #2, a quick reference guide for students and teachers to find CC and other reusable content.

Digital Copyright for 21st Century Citizenship

I attended a Digital Copyright webinar today put on by Barry Britt @ Soundzabound.com.  This was perhaps one of the clearest meetings I've ever attended on copyright.

Below are some of my notes and links that were shared.

4 Useful articles

• Piracy in Education
• Piracy Proofing Your Schools
• Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
• How to Get Media Permissions for Your Videos and other Media

Important points of Fair Use:

• Relevant to course content (no background)
• Used for face to face instruction on a closed network
• No duplication for distribution
• Credit/cite the copyright holder
• One-time use
• Licenses and contracts supersede fair use

Things to Consider

• many artists don’t make as much as teachers
• people are getting sued
• students have copyrights / district usually has some ownership too / teacher / campus
• If student is under 18 parents have rights as well.  Must have parent permission.
• Offer an opt out for parents/students

We are all owners of our own image/brand
Image is Everything

Soundzabound.com has a slew of links to info and articles on Digital Citizenship. You can find everything they have here: http://www.soundzabound.com/links

Barry Britt from Soundzabound did a great job and you can see his presentation yourself here below. Barry can be contacted @ barryb@soundzabound.com :