Blogs, Visuals, Copyright and Digital Tools in Literacy
Tasks
Blog 3 key ideas or activities from each reading on your blog that teachers would find useful.
Pericles, K. (2008). Happily blogging @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6 http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/
Barone, D., & Wright, T. E. (2008). Literacy instruction with digital and media technologies. The Reading Teacher, 62(4), 292-302
Copyright at university and schools.
Using the links to the Australian Copyright council, work together to answer these questions and post the answers on your own blogs:
Can I copy material from the internet for research?
What constitutes research and fair use?
http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/g053.pdf/download
Can students ( university or school ) use music in videos that they make?
http://www.copyright.org.au/g038.pdf
Collect & Create
Using the listed photo sites below, collect a series of images you could use with your class to:
- create a text innovation on a picture book create a powerpoint template for the text innovation - create a jpg image of one powerpoint screen and post it on your blog.Photo/Image Sites: Stock.xchng One of the best free sites. Register and you can search for images, which are free to use for educational purposes.
Science Image The CSIRO site. No fee for educational use.
Morgue File More creative commons photos to use.
FreeFoto Free for non-commercial use.
FreeImages More free to use photos.
Flickr Check the usage for each photo before you use, or search with the creative commons filter.
