Resources for digital learning days

Below you'll find a temporary collection of supplemental learning resources curated to support virtual learning. This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but to help curate some of what is available beyond Cobb Digital Library resources. 

Copyright Resources for educators

• Copyright 101 video from Cool Cat Teacher
• ​Copyright Basics for Teachers video by Royce Kimmons
• Wakelet Copyright Collection by Denise Nassetta 
• The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Creativity from Connect Safely
• 14 Copyright Essentials that Teachers and Students Must Know from Ditch that Textbook​
• Understanding Copyright as an Educator or Librarian by Carin Barrett
• The Ultimate Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons for Educators by the Edublogger
• CCSD Instructional Technology Digital Citizenship Resources
• Copyright.gov

Copyright Lessons

• Short copyright video for students from Common Sense Media
• Copyright curriculum from Copyright and Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens
• 3 copyright lesson plans for teachers from Common Sense Media
• ​Search Nearpod for Common Sense Media lessons and copyright lessons to use with students. 
• Search BrainPOP for copyright lessons to use with students. 

Read-Aloud Rights and permissions

Can Teachers Read Books Out Loud Online? Actually, Yes by EdSurge​

Examples of Fair Use  

Article excerpt: ​"In these cases, teachers may want to read materials online, and could look to fair use for support.

• A teacher reads and shows two picture books to a class as part of a longer 30-minute lesson including discussion questions and context.
• Reading an introductory segment of a nonfiction text aloud to provide students with background material, and offering pre-recorded segments for students to choose to listen to next so that students can select their own learning paths.
• Beginning class sessions with a chapter from a novel, to orient students to the online classroom and to get them focused for learning.
• In an online recording posted to a LMS, a teacher reads a few introductory paragraphs from a commercial textbook and goes on to highlight (and display on video) segments of the reading that students are going to do independently.
• Teachers and students collaborate to read texts in parallel, contributing to a distributed reading project that documents both shared experiences and diverse voices."

Examples to Avoid

Article excerpt: "Here are a few activities schools and teachers should avoid activities without careful, specific guidance or permission:

• Establishing a free YouTube channel hosting readings of numerous picture books and chapter books, not directly tied to their classroom teaching.
• A school system trying to save money suggests that teachers consider reading review questions from commercial worksheets aloud rather than acquiring copies to distribute for student use."​

What about all those REad-aloud videos on Youtube?

• When linking to read-alouds created by others, look for a statement about rights or permissions.
• Official read-alouds created by the publishing company are safe choices. 
• For read-alouds created by a person and uploaded to a public platform like YouTube, you want to see phrasing like "created with permission from Scholastic" or "recorded with permission from Random House Publishing."
• Recorded, public read-alouds without permissions could be violating copyright. 
• During the 2020 pandemic, some publishers are providing open permissions along with guidelines and dates to remove content. Simon & Schuster example. 

Read-aloud Permissions from publishers

• With Remote Learning Still the Norm, Publishers Extend Permissions for Read-Alouds by School Library Journal (Contains a list of publishers and rights updated as of August 2020)

Can teachers show Movies in their online classrooms? 

• Copyright on Campus from the University of Florida
• Excerpt from Copyright on Campus: "​The Copyright Act at §110(1) (face to face teaching exemption) allows for the performance or display of video or film in a classroom where instruction takes place in classroom with enrolled students physically present and the film is related to the curricular goals of the course. The TEACH Act amendment to the Copyright Act, codified at § 110(2), permits the performance of a reasonable and limited portion of films in an online classroom. Under the TEACH Act, there is the express limitation on quantity, and an entire film will rarely constitute a reasonable and limited portion. Instructors may also rely upon fair use for showing films in an online course, although showing an entire film online also may not constitute fair use. Finally, the DMCA prohibits the circumvention of technological prevention measures (TPM) on DVDs and other media for the purpose of copying and distributing their content. Therefore, digitizing and streaming an entire DVD is not permissible unless an express exemption permits this. Currently, there is an exemption permitting faculty to circumvent TPM only to make clips of films for use in teaching and research."
• Fair Use and Copyright for Online Education from the University of Rhode Island. Teaching scenarios are provided. 

Sharing your videos

Recommendations:

• Upload video to Office365 and set sharing permissions accordingly. 
• Upload video to Microsoft Stream and set sharing permissions accordingly. 
• For more tips, visit the CCSD Instructional Technology page. 

resources for parents

• Common Sense Media Blog with articles and tips for parenting during digital learning days (staying focused, managing mental health, managing screen time, etc.) 
• Common Sense Media webinars to support parenting during digital learning days
• CTLS Parent

Digital Learning Days Collection of Resources from Spring 2020