The class is designed to teach students about web applications, digital citizenship, personal network building, and social media responsibility and practice. This blog will be used to share with our readers the tools, websites, and web resources that students are learning about. We hope that you find a tool that you can utilize.

There are so many web applications available on the Internet that students may not even know exist. In this course, students will explore the Internet and take advantage of all that it has to offer. Students will learn that Google is more than just a search engine. They will discover various web applications that will help make their time on the Internet more effective and efficient. The web applications that will be explored include, but are not limited to: sharing buttons, blogs, avatars, RSS, social bookmarking, photo sharing/editing, audio and video, presentation, drawing, collaboration tools, and screencasts. Internet marketing and shopping sites will also be explored. Students will explore applications of which they can utilize to enhance both their learning and social experiences. Students will learn and practice digital literacy and responsibility, collaborate, share, create, socialize, and organize content, while demonstrating internet safety. Upon leaving this course students will be informed digital learner/citizen!


I LOVE LOVE LOVE looking for new tools to share with my students! I explore the web daily in search of new tools. I also gain knowledge from other Social Media blogs/websites who have found resourceful tools. Thank you to all of those experts who share their love for technology with the rest of us!


I also enjoy looking at the students creativity - through their blogs! My students love exploring Social Media! And will walk away with a collection of tools (their own Personal Learning Network) that will enhance their Internet experience both personally, educationally, and professionally.

Copyrights and Wrongs

The lesson was obtained from:  Common Sense Media

Have you ever used creative work that you found online?  For example, a photo or a poem - for personal or school use?

When you use creative work you find online, what considerations do you make about who made it, if any?  How do you think creators would want their work to be used?  What would be okay?  What would not be okay?


Respect Creative Work

What are ways you can be respectful of people's creative work?
  • Check who owns it
  • Buy it
  • Get permission to use it
  • Use it responsibly
  • Give credit to the creator
How do you think you would feel if someone used your creative work?  Would it make a difference whether they did the following:
  • Asked your permission to use it?
  • Gave you credit as the creator?
  • Changed the picture or added a caption without asking you?
What do you think it means to use someone's else's creative work responsibily?  Does it matter how and where you use it?

Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment, but only in certain ways.   Fair use allows you to use only a small part of someone else's creative work as part of something new.  The work can not be used for commercial purposes, and can be used in the following situations:
  • schoolwork and education
  • criticism or social commentary
  • news reporting
  • comedy or parody
Using a small amount in a school report or the school paper would be FAIR USE
Posting it on your blog or social networking site - WOULD NOT BE FAIR USEWashington College of Law, the Center for Social Media creates tools for creators, teachers, and researchers to better use their fair use rights.

What do you need to do if you want to use someone else's creative work?
  • Check who owns it
  • Get permission to use it
  • Give credit to the creator
  • Buy it
  • Use it responsibly
A person OWNS the creative work that he or she has made, whether it is writing, visual art, photography, music, or in some other form.    You can not legally use copyrighted work without the permission of the person who created it.

Copyright:  A law that protects you're a creator's ownership of and control over the work he or she creates, requiring other people to get you're the creator's permission before they copy, share or perform that work

Creative Commons:  A kind of copyright that makes it easy for people to copy, share, and build on someone's creative work - as long as they give the creator credit for it

Public Domain:  Creative work that is not protected by copyright and is therefore free for you to use however one wants



When you use creative work that you find online, do you think it is fair use?
--report is fair use--, blog or facebook - not fair use--

Can you use creative work that is posted under Creative Commons license?
Creative Common license allows you to use work without specific permission - provided you give credit to the creator - though it may place limits on use for commercial purposes.  Works in public domain can be used without permission.

Do you think it is important to give credit and permission, if needed, when you use someone else's creative work?  Why or why not?  --ethical as well as legal considerations involved in using the work of others.   Most people want receive credit for their creative work.  Some might want their work seen by as many people as possible, while others might want to limit and get some compensation.  But respecting creative work means that the choice should be theirs.


Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/pictures - public domain


Flickr - you can find many photos that can be used under Creative Commons license.

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