Cynthia Alvarado on May 11th, 2009

This great little rap from Temple University Media Education Lab explains copyright in a way that students and teachers will understand. It only takes 3 minutes and it’s downright catchy!

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Cynthia Alvarado on April 27th, 2009

Copyright for Educators View more presentations from Wesley Fryer. This is an excellent presentation about Copyright and Creative Commons, which caused me to rethink my usual several-times-a-year pep talk about copyright and far use. I’m usually not a negative person, so why was this particular presentation always about the “don’ts” and never about the “you [...]

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Cynthia Alvarado on January 28th, 2009

If you go to my school, you have probably heard me rant about not using Google image search to find pictures for projects. If you haven’t heard me, let me inform you. Under the Fair Use Policy (U.S. law), you can only use images that you have permission to use. This means you must take [...]

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