Teaching with the Web	The Instructional Technology Journal of Greenwood School District 50 http://www.gwd50.org Volume 3, Number 10 January 1, 2008
Paraphrasing, Plagiarism, and Copyright Laws 1/1/08 The younger our students begin learning about paraphrasing, plagiarism, and copyright laws, the more discerning they become in their research and the more powerful they become in their writing. The video described below offers copyright information for students from elementary to high school age. The links below provide web-based lessons to teach students to paraphrase and avoid plagiarism. The video, A Fair(y) Use Tale – Copyright Laws, can be viewed on TeacherTube or downloaded from Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society. Ben Rimes (The Tech Savvy Educator) states in his blog that the video is “a hilarious and overtly subversive film that uses clips from almost every Walt Disney film ever made to convey the meaning of copyright law, public domain, and how fair use exceptions for education can inspire creative presentations. The idea is to encourage creativity, while at the same time get people talking about how Disney, and other companies, have effectively lobbied to extend copyright from the original 14 years it once lasted, to the now 100 years for corporate copyrights, and how that affects new uses of old media.” From EduHound: The OWL at Purdue - Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words Learn to borrow from a source without plagiarizing by creating your own rendition of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form. Please No Posers: Learning to Paraphrase Without Plagiarizing In this lesson, students explore correct ways to reference information sources and avoid plagiarism by accurately summarizing a New York Times article. Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing The lesson includes three parts: part one focuses on plagiarism; part two introduces copyright and fair use; and part three helps students with their paraphrasing skills. Paraphrase Craze This step-by-step lesson helps students paraphrase by reading carefully. Then setting the material aside and changing what was read into new words. The Writing Edge: Unique Notes Discusses the importance of note taking when writing research reports and explains the difference between quoting and paraphrasing. The Long and Short of It: Summarizing Important Details n this lesson, students practice summarizing a brief reading/listening selection. When writing reports, students use their summarizing (and paraphrasing) skills to avoid plagiarizing (copying verbatim) their resource texts.	Important Teacher Notes It’s time to check your laptop to be sure it’s ready to go on your school’s network. When you connect your laptop to the network, it will broadcast assorted information across the district’s system – identifying itself and you to the network as well as connecting you to the Internet, email, and other applications. You want to be sure that it does not also send out a set of viruses, worms, or spam. Please check the following things to get your laptop ready for that first day back: · Update your Symantec virus definitions and run a full scan on your laptop – before bringing it back to school. See the instructions for doing this in TWTW Vol.2 No.12 (http://www2.gwd50.org/techplans/TWTW-Vol02No12.htm.) · Remove all personal software from the laptop. This is essential because that software will show up on the network inventory after you connect to the network. · Lastly – if you have any doubt that your laptop is “clean” when you bring it to school the first day, take it directly to your on-site technology support person, and ask how you can make sure it is clean.
	Site Survey: Websites that Educate, Enlighten, Entertain, and Engage · Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists http://www.exploratorium.edu/icestories/index.php In a series of live webcasts held in celebration of the International Polar Year (2007-2008), educators at the Exploratorium in San Francisco will be talking throughout the month with scientists at McMurdo Station near the South Pole about the many research projects they're conducting. The scientists have cameras and will document their adventures, in real time, so you can follow their research, ask questions, and share in their discoveries as they occur. This experiment gives you an up-close-and-personal look at research in extreme environments through the thoughts and experiences of the scientists working there. Photos, videos, and blogs will be posted on this site..
	The Laptop-and-Projector Project Website Tech Project: http://www2.gwd50.org/TechPlans/TechPlan2006.htm Instr. Resources: http://www2.gwd50.org/TechPlans/StaffDevResources.htm Previous TWTW Issues: http://www2.gwd50.org/TechPlans/TWTW-Index.htm Instructional Technology Specialist: http://www2.gwd50.org/hughesc/Hughes1.html Happy New Year! I hope it is all you wish it to be. Cindy Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey