Friday, December 4, 2009

Copyright and Acceptable Use

Note on Copyright and Acceptable Use

In these lessons special care is taken to conform to copyright and fair-use guidelines. In all my teaching, I try to keep myself constantly aware of these guidelines. In producing teaching and educational materials, I always use a creative commons license as indicated by this designation:



This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Technology Curriculum Integration Ideas!

Goal Number 1: Use technology to convey information to students, parents, other teachers, and faculty.
Goal Number 2: Have students’ lessons enhanced by the use of technology.
Goal Number 3: Technology will be used across the curriculum.

General Ideas
Open houses: info for parents on the smart board.
Welcome to classroom, showing class rules
Calendar of school/building/classroom events
School activities
Faculty/staff pages

Science and Health
Have students create an ocean vocabulary word scramble and then have them exchange with a friend and practice vocabulary. Have them use the computer to make the word scramble.
Use a desktop publishing or word processing program to write a newspaper report about the topic you're studying.
Use a desktop publishing program to create a banner or poster about pollution, or other health or science issues.

English/Language Arts
Student write stories or essays about what you are studying.
Use one computer in the front of the classroom to brainstorm a story or paper together. Model how to gather facts and information. Write the sentences and paragraphs together, and then print the story or paper for students to look at when writing their own.
When using CD-ROM books, assign young students to read until they can read the book themselves without the computer voice.

Math
Use a word processor to have students keep a journal of the math concepts they understand and have learned. etc.
Use a desktop publishing program to create a banner or poster about a math concept or advertising something using a math concept.
Have students create a multimedia portfolio of math concepts they understand, including video clips of them using manipulative, photographs of projects, and explanations of concepts.

I will know that I have met my goals when I put into practice the ideas I have listed above. It is important to brainstorm a plethora of ideas using technology, so that in an instant you have a resource to go to.