Tomato

How do you maximize student audience while keeping children safe, their identities anonymous and in compliance with copyright laws? We discussed whether or not project has to go outside the local area in order to give students audience. We could invite people from other places to come and see your work. Question of copyright and fair use touched upon music etc. came up. Photos......can use their own.....which means that the audience will be smaller. Protect identities can use initials. VoiceThread can be used. How much audience do students need? Is in-school audience enough?
 * Tomato Q**

The students in your class are writing personal narratives and converting them into digital stories. In doing so they are pulling images, sound effects, and music from the web. Design a plan for dealing with both the privacy issues and the copyright issues that accompany a project of this type, while still enabling your students' work to be published for an audience beyond their own school. Include in your plan a method for widening the student audience.
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Our thoughts: Does every project needs to reach beyond the school or local community? EPals, Skype would extend the reach of the classroom; invitation-only wikis and blogs would allow people outside the classroom to view and listen to the students' digital stories

As for the scenario in the conversation starter: Using music: try getting royalty free music online examples: Royalty Free Music Revolution [] Royalty Free Music [] use less than 30 seconds of a commercial piece of music compose your own use a MIDI write to artist and have a plan B if you don't get permission or hear back in time

Using photos: take your own use creative commons photos, either with permission of photographer or photos that can be freely used

Protect identities by using initials Use a wiki with generic usernames or initials Use a blog (see above) and embed the digital stories (via PowerPoint, iMovie, Garageband, etc.) Use VoiceThread

Our followup questions: How much audience do the students need and want; are closed environments that are open "by invitation only" enough? How does this need for wider audience differ from one grade level or school level to another? Location of more sources for sound and graphic resources needs to be collected for younger students Tech teacher or coordinator and subject or classroom teachers would need to set up the framework so students could jump right in; this might include setting up the Wiki or Blog, mini-lessons on software, starting the resource lists, etc. The teacher responsibilities might differ at various grade levels, with students taking on more responsibilities with age and experience

for music: examples: Royalty Free Music Revolution [] Royalty Free Music [] sites for lessons on copyright and fair use
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 * Group Reflections -** Take some time to respond to the following questions after completing your task.
 * What does the student experience in a classroom look like when the curriculum is integrated with technology that they use?
 * student-centered, more responsibility for their own work
 * What support structures need to be in place for this classroom to exist, for the experiences to exist?
 * technical assistance when needed; a structure set up for posting projects
 * permissions gathered in a timely fashion
 * rubric so everyone knows what is expected and in what timeframe
 * What is your ideal school look like where access to learning is not held in check by the classroom walls or the teacher itself?
 * Where does learning happen in the schools of the future?