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Document the Fair-Use Reasoning Process

October 27th, 2010

Document the Fair-Use Reasoning Process

When using copyrighted materials as part of the creative production process, download this PDF to document your own (or your students’) fair-use reasoning process. It’s a tool to strengthen your critical thinking and reasoning skills.

Name:__________________________________________________________________

Project Title:___________________________________________________________________

When developing a project, answer the following questions:

What is the purpose of your project?_________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Who is the target audience?_________________________________________________

I am using (describe copyrighted material here)__________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

because (provide a reason here) ______________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Did your use of the work transform the material taken from the copyrighted work by using it for a different purpose than that of the original? Explain why your work does not just repeat the intent and value of the original source material.

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Did you use only the amount you needed to accomplish your purpose? Explain why made your selection.

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Provide a citation for the material you are using:

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

January 14th, 2010

Yo yo yo we’re kickin’ it old school today.  This rad application has been around for a long time but that doesn’t mean educators should toss it aside because it’s still h-o-t.  Hot Potatoes actually…

Hot Potatoes is freeware that educators can use to create games and other review tools.  Just visit their site and download the free software right onto your computer and start using the 6 applications that come with it.  As it says on the site, Hot Potatoes “enables you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises”.

My personal favorite thing to do with Hot Potatoes is creating cloze activities with the gap-fill option.  I’ve used this to create basic grammar drills and I’ve also used it for cloze song activities.  I take lyrics from French songs and then create blanks with drop-down menus for students to complete.  Once again, this is a fun tool that becomes even better when you throw in an interactive whiteboard.

Here’s a link to another teacher who has used this tool in a very impressive way, mostly with music.

iTALC – Intelligent Teaching And Learning with Computers

May 16th, 2008

What is iTALC?

iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you’re free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC’s license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!

http://italc.sourceforge.net/

 

Features

iTALC has been designed for usage in school. Therefore it offers a lot of possibilities to teachers, such as
 

  • see what’s going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshots
  • remote-control computers to support and help other people
  • show a demo (either in fullscreen or in a window) – the teacher’s screen is shown on all student’s computers in realtime
  • lock workstations for moving undivided attention to teacher
  • send text-messages to students
  • powering on/off and rebooting computers per remote
  • remote logon and logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scripts
  • home-schooling – iTALC’s network-technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN-connections just by installing iTALC client

Michael George