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Inside this Issue:p. 5 Students Show their “Smarts”
p. 7 Enhance Your Twitter Experience
p. 9 2012 Conference Notes
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Fall 2012 | Volume 38 | Number 1
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Volume 38, Number 1
4 President's Messageby Lou Greco
5 Students show how"smart" they are in theResearch Process by Sarah Van Gemert andChristina Johnston
6 Common CoreStandards and theLibrary Program by Nancy Teger and Sybil Farwell
7 Enhance Your TwitterExperience by Shannon Miller
FAME Conference Notes
9 FAME KeynoteSpeaker by Lou Greco
9 Baskets Helping FAMERally the Troops
10 Stay at the HiltonBonnett Creek by Lou Greco
11 Powered by Edmodo by Jesse Gates
12 Hunger Games by Lou Greco and Jesse Gates
14 Jim Harbin StudentWinners by Karen Robinson
15 A Question ofCopyright by Gary Becker
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Welcome back to school! I am so excited about this upcoming year. I believe
the transition to Common Core standards are an opportunity we should not
miss. When you study the components of the Common Core standards there is
no one in our schools ready to assist more than the school librarian! We
understand the complexity of all types of print and non print resources, text
complexity, and of course assisting our students in doing meaningful research.
We must seize this opportunity to show the importance of school libraries and
school librarians.
The 2012 FAME Conference on Nov. 1, 2, and 3 at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in
Orlando will be an excellent place to find many ways that you can be the
catalyst in your school for assisting with the implementation of the Common
Core Standards. We didn’t make our room count last year so in order to reduce
our room nights we had to change our dates in order not to owe the Hilton
Bonnet Creek any money, but we actually think the change will give us some
new opportunities and excitement. For the first time ever FAME will have a full
slate of concurrent sessions and workshops on Saturday for those of you who
find it difficult to get permission to leave your schools during the school week.
We will start our conference with our opening keynote session with Shannon
McClintock Miller from Iowa who won the national Best Producers of Short
Content On Social Media Award. You can learn more about Shannon by visiting
her website at http://shannonmmiller.com/. This event will be followed up by an
Energize Your Evening With the Authors Reception on Thursday evening at
6:00 PM. We have many exciting workshops and concurrent sessions. The
Exhibit Hall will be open all day Friday and Saturday. We will be running a
creating eBooks using iBook Authoring software that I can’t wait to attend. A
mobile digital devices playground will be available and you will also be able to
talk to school librarians one on one at our Exploratorium Poster Sessions. Of
course, as always you will have the opportunity to listen to many wonderful
children and young adult authors. Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Librarian from
Georgia will be speaking at our closing session on Saturday afternoon at 4:00
PM. If you want to learn more about Buffy you can visit her website at
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com. Please plan on attending and
encouraging your colleagues in your district and around the state to attend.
You will shortly be seeing a list of FREE virtual professional development
opportunities that FAME will be offering this fall to FAME members. By the
way, we are now beginning a major FAME membership campaign and each of
you can assist. Our goal is to get back to 1,000 members in Florida. Please
encourage your colleagues to join this fall.
It has been a pleasure serving as your president this year and I look forward to
seeing many of you at our FAME conference in November.
Lou Greco
FAME MissionStatementFAME advocates for every student
in Florida to be involved in and
have open access to a quality
school library media program
administered by a highly
competent, certified library media
specialist. FAME is a collaborative,
responsive, dynamic network for
Florida library media
professionals.
Lou GrecoPresident, FAME
Director for Instructional
Technology
& Media Services
St. Johns County School District
How are students at BarronCollier High School in Naples,Florida doing their research?
They use their smart phones!
By scanning QR codes and following
the instructions that are sent to their
smart phones, students are physically
moving through the Collier County
Public Schools Research Process in the
Media Center. The QR Code
Scavenger Hunt provides an
opportunity for the students to learn
their way around the Media Center
and also engage in a research
activity at the same time! After the
students scan their first QR code,
they are given their topic and in
what area of the Media Center they
can look to find information on
that particular topic. Once they
find a resource, they are
instructed to take brief notes on their topic.
The next QR code sends thestudents
to the computer lab where
they have the opportunity to properly cite the
resources they find for their topic. After they
have cited their resource, the students scan
the next QR code which sends them to find
an additional resource in another area of the
Media Center. Once again, the students find a
resource and take brief notes on their topic.
Finally, their last QR code sends them back
to the computer lab where they cite their
second resource and also draw a conclusion
about their topic. It’s a fun way for the
students to actively participate in the research
process and use their smart phones as an
educational tool!
Sarah VanGemertMedia Specialist
ChristinaJohnstonEnglish Teacher
Barron Collier High School
Naples, FL
Students show how“Smart” they are in the Research Process
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As the new school year begins, school librarians in Florida are seekinganswers to multiple questions: What impact will the Common Core StateStandards have on my work and library program? How can I use
technology to engage students and maximize the impact of the library programon the school community? How can I gain the skills I need to increase students’usage of Web 2.0 tools?
For some Florida home-grown perspectives on these current topics, FAME will sponsor a
second year of online inservice sessions. The Professional Development Committee is
busy preparing the agenda of once-a-month online sessions that our state professional
organization will offer free (to FAME members) or for a small charge to nonmembers.
Each of the one-hour sessions will focus on topics such as standards implementation
(e.g., Common Core or AASL), instructional strategies, or technology applications.
Specifically, this year, several sessions will repeat technology applications offered last
year; however, additional presentations will be added on newer Web 2.0 tools. Each
session will include a “how-to” segment, as well as strategies for integrating the tools
into the school library instructional program.
Our first session, held on September 27th, was an introduction to the Common Core State
Standards. The session offered background information on the standards, implementation
strategies for integrating them into the school library instructional program, and
additional online resources. A certificate of completion was presented to each participant
following the session.
Input from FAME’s membership on the topics to be covered is very important to the
committee as they continue to plan for the year; consequently, the committee will be
distributing a survey to collect ideas from you. When you see this announcement in your
email, please take a moment to complete the survey and make your informational needs
known so that sessions on these critical topics will be included in this year’s offerings.
We hope that you will join us for these short, but information-packed sessions. Stay tuned
for updates as sessions are finalized and registration begins!
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Nancy Teger andSybil Farwell
Common Core Standards and the Library Program
Ihave been encouraging teachers, students, andothers to join Twitter and build their personallearning networks (PLNs) ever since I delved into
this great social networking site last fall. Investingthe time in Twitter has paid off in a number ofwonderful ways. If it weren’t for Twitter, RuggeroDomenichini from New Zealand would not havetaught my seventh grade Technology andInformation Literacy class about his Web 2.0 tool,YouTellYou; Mark Moran, founder and CEO of finding Dulcinea, wouldn’t havetaught my students and other teachers about his unbelievable online resource;our junior high students would not have participated in the award-winningGreeting-FromTheWorld wiki; and I wouldn’t be excited to go to ISTE in 2010 tosee all of the amazing people I have come to know through their tweets.
Once you start using Twitter, you’ll start reaping the benefits such as these. For those
who have opened up an account and dabbled a bit but still don’t see the point, I’d like to
offer a few other tools and tips that can improve your Twitter experience.
Use a Twitter OrganizerAdd a Twitter organizer or manager to your desktop such as TweetDeck
(www.tweetdeck.com) or HootSuite (http://hootsuite.com). I prefer TweetDeck because I
find it easier to use. Both of these tools organize your Twitter stream into columns, such
as All Friends, Mentions, Direct Messages, or any special lists or searches you follow.
You can open as many columns as you want, and you can delete them at any time. I often
have several columns open for my favorite lists.
Twitter users create discussion forums using a hashtag (#) followed by the topic. This
allows you to search all of the tweets containing that hashtag, even if you aren’t
following the person who sent the tweet. For example, when I compose a tweet and
include my school’s hashtag, anyone searching for #vanmeter will see this tweet. It is a
great way to share and connect within a certain group and to connect with others
interested in the same things you are.
I have met a lot of my Twitter friends by searching for hashtags such as #followfriday
(giving shout-outs to fellow Twitter friends on Friday), #followalibrarian, and #edchat
(seeL&L, May 2010, “Exchange Ideas on Edchat,” page 33).
You can also create and follow personalized lists of people through your Twitter account.
These lists might be your own PLN, a list of all of the Twitter users within your school,
or all the authors you follow on Twitter. You can also follow other users’ lists by adding
them to your TweetDeck or Twitter page.
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Enhance Your Twitter ExperienceUsing a few tips and tools, you can transformyour teaching and become a wise owl.
Shannon Miller
Shannon McClintock Miller
is the teacher librarian and
technology coordinator at
Van Meter School in Van
Meter, Iowa. She loves Web
2.0, creativity, learning,
sharing, and noise in the
library and school. Follow
her on Twitter at
@shannonmiller
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If you are new to TweetDeck, you might not have noticed how easily you can send replies,
retweets, and direct messages simply by hovering over someone’s profile picture. Click the
retweet button next to a tweet that you like, and the message automatically appears in the
update box. You can also send replies and direct message this way.
Another advantage of using an organizer, as opposed to the actual Twitter site, is the increased
functionality. You can compose updates, add a column, send a picture, shorten your tweet to
140 characters using TweetShrink, and translate a tweet from a foreign language. These
organizational applications also allow you to manage Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and
MySpace all from one place. You can even send an update from multiple places at once.
Manage Tweets with a BookmarkletIn the past when I would find a resource to share, I would send out an e-mail. If my recipients
wanted to share the information, they would, in turn, forward the e-mail. Now when find a
resource to share, I use the bookmarklet Hootlet, a tool within HootSuite, and send a tweet.
Merely drag Hootlet to your bookmark bar or your favorites list, and it will allow you to easily
send tweets to any of the accounts (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) you have linked to your HootSuite
account.
Say for example, that I find an online elementary book site that I would like to share with my
Twitter friends. When I am at that site,I click on Hootlet in my bookmark bar. It brings down a
box with a tweet already created. It also shows the different accounts I have tagged within my
HootSuite. I can send the tweet out like that, add to it, or edit it before I send it to my
followers. I can add a hashtag or even mention another user within a tweet.
Be StrategicOnce you start tweeting on a daily basis, it’s good to take stock of what you are tweeting. I love
using the formula that Angela Maiers posted on her blog Putting Learner and Learning First.
In the post “Twitter Engagement Formula,” she writes, “70% of Twitter time should be spent
sharing other voices, opinions, and tools; 20% of tweets should be directly responding,
connecting, collaborating, and cocreating with Twitter colleagues; and 10% is chit-chatting
trivial details about your life as a human being.”
Don’t assume that this Twitter business made sense to me at first. I gathered some strong
resources about Twitter, added several key friends I found by networking through Twitter and
other social networking tools, and jumped right in! I love how this tool has helped me build my
PLN and make connections with others all over the world.
ResourcesHootSuite: www.hootsuite.com
Putting Learner and Learning First, “My Twitter EngagementFormula”: www.angelamaiers.com/208/09/my-twitter-enga.html
Shannon Miller’s Diigo list of Twitter resources:www.diigo.com/list/shannonmiller/twitter-resources
TweetDeck: www.Tweetdeck.com
Enhance your Twitter Experience continued from 11
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Lou GrecoPresident, FAME
Director for Instructional
Technology
& Media Services
St. Johns County School
District
Shannon McClintock Miller Opens FAME 2012 Conference
2012 Conference Notes
FAME is excited to have ShannonMcClintock Miller give the FAME2012 Conference keynote
address at our opening session at4:00 PM on Thursday, November 1,2012 at the Hilton Bonnett CreekHotel in Orlando.
Shannon McClintock Miller is the district
teacher librarian and technology
specialist at Van Meter Community
School in Van Meter, Iowa. She
encourages her students to have a voice
while learning, creating, collaborating,
and connecting to others within their
school and around the world. Shannon is
the author of the award winning Van
Meter Library Voice blog and enjoys
writing for ISTE's Leading & Learning journal, various blogs, and in other forums. She
has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy,
technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others.
Shannon serves on the School Library Monthly advisory board and is a teacher advocate
for StudyBlue. In March 2011, Shannon was awarded the Connecting People Shorty
Award for Twitter. Shannon can be found at @shannonmmiller on Twitter and online at
shannonmmiller.com. Take some time and visit her interactive website at
http://shannonmmiller.com before the conference to hear the exciting things
happening in her library in Iowa.
Baskets Helping FAMEIf you have been attending the FAME conference the past few years I am sure you have noticed the beautifulhuge baskets that have been displayed. FAME local associations and many other friends of FAME have beencreating these masterpieces each year. The revenue generated by these baskets earned FAME approximately$1400 last year. These baskets have been very popular with our attendees and I often heard people askingabout what was in a basket designed by a particular group so they could find it to bid on the basket. Weencourage anyone interested in creating a basket this year to bring your basket to the FAME Registration boothwhen you arrive at the conference. This is a very tangible way you can assist FAME by your generosity increating baskets and by bidding on baskets to take home with you.
Why FAME needs you to stay at the Hilton Bonnett Creek HotelI have been hearing concerns for the past two years regarding staying at the
Hilton Bonnet Creek Hotel. I share your concerns and have stayed at less
expensive locations myself to attend FAME and FETC conferences in the past.
What I didn’t understand before I was in leadership in FAME was the way
hotel conference contracts are written. The hotel rooms our participants
occupy, pay for our session and exhibit space. These hotel room nights allow
us to have a professional venue for the one time each year where we have the
opportunity for face-to-face collaboration and learning.
At last year’s conference, FAME missed the room night requirements. That alone resulted in a $62,000 shortfall.
Fortunately, we were able to renegotiate the room nights requirement for this year. However, we are locked into
contracts with the Hilton Bonnet Creek for the next several years. If we fill the hotel this year the Hilton will drop
the $62,000 shortfall. We really need everyone to stay at the Hilton and share rooms with colleagues. Sharing rooms
can help defray the personal cost to each of you. This year if you stay at the Hilton you will not have to pay for
parking. If you stay off property that will be a $15 a day charge, please take that into consideration if you are
thinking of staying off property.
If we can fill our rooms this year, FAME will be in much better financial standing than we have been during the past
year. We have an exciting program for you with national library leaders and authors such as Shannon Miller, Sharon
Draper, and Buffy Hamilton. Our annual conference is where we make money to run our organization throughout the
following year. Thank you each so much for being FAME members and attending the 2012 FAME Conference!
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Conference Notes continued from 9
We are locked intocontracts with the HiltonBonnet Creek for the nextseveral years. If we fill thehotel this year the Hilton willdrop the $62,000 shortfall.
Jesse GatesInstructional Technology
Program Specialist
St. Johns County
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We are very excited about this year’s FAME conference and will once again beharnessing the power of Edmodo to enhance your experience. All attendees to theconference are encouraged to bring their laptops, smartphones, and tablets to takeadvantage of the online resources that will be available in Edmodo. Edmodo is afree and secure social learning platform for teachers, students, schools anddistricts. It has become a favorite online community for our teachers to use withtheir students here in St. Johns County because of how easy it is to share all typesof digital content. Many conferences are beginning to realize how much morepowerful they can be when they are “powered by edmodo,” and so it’s becomingmore common to see Edmodo used in professional development as well.
Before you come to this year’s conference,
you can go to www.edmodo.com and
register for a free account if you don’t
already have one. Once at the conference,
look in your FAME conference program and
you will see the group codes for each
session. We are asking our presenters to
become a part of the edmodo community by
sharing digital content from their
presentations and continuing the learning
after the conference with their concurrent
session participants. Not only will you have
access to this content, you’ll also have the
ability to share your expertise with others
here at FAME by uploading your thoughts,
comments, and even content you’d like to
share. It is this type of collaboration that we
feel will make our conference so
worthwhile.
There will be help desk available at the
“digital hub” during the conference if you
have any questions at all about Edmodo. We
are looking forward to seeing you all in
Orlando and online in Edmodo for the 2012
FAME Conference!
Make the most of your 2012FAME Conference…Join Edmodo.
Conference Notes continued from 10
Last January, Kristen Mullins a teacher at Pedro Menendez High School,Jesse Gates, me, and a class of Intensive Reading High School studentsembarked on an adventure that turned out better than any of us could
have imagined. Where are the intrinsic successes our intensive readingstudents need? Yes, many around the state are able to get some of thesestudents through passing the necessary exams and courses to get a highschool diploma. However, do we really build a desire for learning and a love ofreading that will last a lifetime? Are we showing them their strengths or justthrowing their weaknesses in their faces day after day.
and Edmodo
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Lou Greco and Jesse Gates
Here was the challenge to our students.
We told them if they would truly engage
in their learning during this novel study,
we would use every tool we could think
of to help, listen to them, change direction
if we needed to, and to make them
successful for this quarter and also for the
rest of their lives. We expected them to
give it their best and if they did the
reward at the end of the quarter would be
a field trip to the IMAX Theater to see the
Hunger Games movie the first week it
came out.
Ms. Mullins was teaching AVID, IB,
Honors English and Intensive Reading.
This wide range of students proved to
make all of us think differently about
what was occurring in this classroom on a
daily basis. There was constant reflection
about what strategies were and weren’t
working.
Students were given the opportunity to
listen to an audio version of the book and
a few times it was read aloud. Everyone
had a print copy of Hunger Games. There
were a few students who preferred not to
listen but just read.
We used the Edmodo social networking
tool using iPads and laptops for student
responses everyday. It was an enormous
success. Previously, when studying a
novel, the teacher would have students
take down written notes on paper on the
chapter they were reading. These notes
would consist of questions, vocabulary, or
basic comprehension issues. With
Edmodo, the students were able to post
these questions, comments, or thoughts
straight onto the class Edmodo site where
the other students and teachers could see.
Some things we found during our course:
• Many of the students displayed higher-
level thought processes on Edmodo than
they typically would on their notepaper.
• Students analyzed the text and asked
many poignant questions throughout the
course.
• Many students who previously
contributed very little to classroom
discussions were more active on
Edmodo. Especially our two ELL
students who were verbally unsure of
themselves but their written English was
well written.
Hunger Games,Audio Books, CraniumCore,
To The Rescue
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To the Rescue continued from 12
• Many students enjoyed the ability to get text messages
through the Edmodo mobile app when Ms. Mullins sent
out an alert message to their cell phones to remind them
of assignments or assessments.
• It was far easier for us as teachers to monitor the
learning of the students. We could see who was posting
and what they were posting.
• There’s an accountability factor that is hard to
understate. When a student writes their thoughts down
on a sheet of paper, they know this paper is only going
to be seen by the teacher. In Edmodo, they are writing
for the entire class to see, and we believe we saw better
writing because of this. We did need to crack down on
some casual texting style writing that a few students
were using, but for the most part saw better writing out
of all the students.
Ms. Mullins decided to incorporate the Socratic Seminar
strategy she used with her IB students. Many teachers
equate Socratic Seminar with students in advanced
studies. However, during these sessions it was amazing
the depth of understanding these students were pulling
from the text. Yes they were listening while reading, but
they were truly learning a tremendous amount from this
novel.
On Fridays we used the Cranium Core video game
clickers to review the chapters we had read. The higher
order thinking questions used in this method are a
springboard for thematic conversation leading to improved
comprehension skills. The goal is to have students think
independently. It is also a goal to show them how to be
interdependent, collaborative learners. The teams stayed
consistent throughout the quarter and the students from
each team had to prove their answers by directing the
class back to the specific text, which would answer the
question by page and paragraph. This method encourages
lively debate to prove which team is actually correct.
After the competition each week the winning team was
given a Hunger Games trophy. The winning team at the
end of the book kept the trophy.
Ms. Mullins taught this novel simultaneously to two other
classes including her English Honors class. At the end of
the quarter she gave the same exact exam to all three
classes. After grading she placed the three class averages
on the board and the Intensive Reading students were
amazed they had achieved the highest class average. They
truly understood the depth and intricacies of this title.
Several of the boys in the class said it was the first book
they actually ever read from cover to cover. They were
thrilled with themselves and indicated they would read
other books in the future. Many days when the period was
almost over they would beg to read more, that doesn’t
happen very often or at all in Intensive Reading
classrooms. For fourth quarter they were given permission
to read the second book in the trilogy, Catching Fire.
There was not only reading comprehension, vocabulary,
and writing academic success; there was a change of
heart!
We’d love to hear from you!Have you completed a research project you want to share with other media specialists? Have you justreturned from a trip where you witnessed exciting innovations for media specialists? Have you learned anew technique, found a new product or service, or just have information that you want to share?
The FMQ can be your forum. See page 16 for details and submit your articles today.
| Florida Media Quarterly | Fall 2012 | Page 14 |
Congratulations!The 2011-2012 Jim Harbin Student Media Festival was again a success. Thousands
of entries were submitted and many advanced from the local level all the way to the
state level. The five regional directors were instrumental in setting up virtual
judging venues in order to assure that each entry was judged fairly and equally.
The entries that were awarded first, second and third place at the state level are now
listed on the F.A.M.E. website.
(http://www.floridamedia.org/?page=JH_2012_Winners) Winners will learn their
actual award at the Jim Harbin Student Media Festival Awards Ceremony on
Saturday, November 3 during the F.A.M.E. Annual Conference.
Changes are about to take place in the procedures for entering the 2012-2013 Jim
Harbin Student Media Festival. Please do not plan to submit any entries until
AFTER the November Awards Ceremony.
Again, congratulations to the students, teachers, sponsors and media specialists who
made the media festival a success. Please be sure you renew your F.A.M.E.
membership so your school can continue to participate in this outstanding event.
Karen Robinson
Jim Harbin Student Winners
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A “Question of Copyright” is anongoing column authored by Gary H. Becker, nationalCopyright law consultant andretired, public school system,technology administrator. If youhave a question, please send it to [email protected] will receive an individualresponse and your question mayappear in a future edition of FMQ.Requests to withhold names willbe honored.
Gary H. BeckerNational Copyright Law
Consultant
QOur county has purchased andimplemented an English/Lang. Arts
Curriculum.
Complementing the curriculum andrelevant literature titles are accompanyingDVDs featuring full-length movies. Whileit has never been the intent to show thefull-length movies, clips of each moviehave been extracted to support discussionand stimulate inquiry.
The company has forwarded a documentthat reflects information on “the use ofthese clips to support education.” Pleasenote, however, the clips in question areNOT online and are derived from the full-length feature films.
If the district were to purchase a set ofthese DVDs, does it fall within “fair use”to create a CD with the accompanying clipfor each classroom teacher? To whatdegree does “fair use” apply in thissituation?
AIn the document provided by thecompany, Section 110 of the
Copyright Law is being used to justify theuse of film clips. However, Section 110only pertains to the use of copyrightedmaterial for education, more specifically,instruction. It doesn't address the legalityof using clips taken from copyrightedworks. The use of a portion of a work fallsunder Fair Use and in order to make suchclips, one has to meet the criteria for FairUse.
If the intended clips are going to be usedas part of a distance learning activity, suchuse would be governed by the privilegesand limitations granted in the Teach Act.Where the Teach Act is ambiguous as tothe amount that may be used from acopyrighted work, then Fair Use wouldstill apply.
An individual teacher, taking clips andusing for instruction, especially if such useis “transformative” in nature, maypossibly qualify for Fair Use. However,
the organized capturing of clips from full-length videos and then reproducing anddistributing these clips, violates the rightsof the copyright owners, whether or notthere is a charge for the clips. Suchactivity requires prior permission from thecopyright owners of the works from whichyou wish to create clips.
The use of the clips, even if created by theindividual teacher for their own use,assumes that the original source videosweren’t governed by a license or useragreement. If, in fact, these videos arelicensed or governed by a user agreement,then any reproduction, in whole or in part,along with any transmissions, especiallyfor distance learning, would only belegally possible if the license/agreementgranted such privileges.
QI would like to use the lyrics fromthe Dave Matthews Band song
“Don’t Drink the Water” in a lesson onNative Americans. Can the lyrics be givento students to analyze or is that acopyright violation?
AIn general, it is not permissible toreproduce the lyrics to copyrighted
music, without prior permission. However,some recent interpretations of Fair Use, inregard to using media in a transformativemanner (Transformative – using for apurpose other than originally designed)appear to apply to teachers of medialiteracy and the regular classroom.
I would recommend your visiting thefollowing website,http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education, where you will find the “Codeof Best Practices for Fair Use in MediaLiteracy” which I think you will findhelpful in answering the question youhave posed.
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