For the past six days I’ve been teaching a lesson on Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons to the 10 sections of my Digital Literacy course.  About half-way through the cycle, I made a rather timely discovery; another school has taken the liberty of copying our 7th grade Digital Citizenship program! I’m all for sharing [...]

The sixth lesson in our Digital Literacy curriculum explores some of the issues surrounding copyright, educational Fair Use, works in the public domain, and Creative Commons licensing.  Although responsibility for teaching and understanding these topics often falls to librarians, it is critical that all students and faculty have a working knowledge of how creative works [...]

A few weeks ago, in an effort to get teachers and students to broaden their online search/research horizons, I proposed taking a one week hiatus from Google search. A few colleagues joined me in my quest, a few questioned my rationale, but the overwhelming response was “good luck with that!”. Now that my generally “Google [...]