Using Digital to Make the "Old" Technology - Books

What Kids Can Do is a wonderful non-profit in Road Island that is helping kids to publish amazing books. Look. See. Be Inspired.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

Thanks to The Workbook Project for pointing out that the Center for Social Media at American University has published an updated Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

"This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances."

You Can Take It With You

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Here are instructions for downloading YouTube Videos to your computer (or iPod) so that you can use them with students.

All this time, I've been searching on Google Video. If it wasn't there, I just didn't use it. Thanks Techlearning!

You Can Take It With You

More about music...

Another possible source for free music. Courtesy of our friends at lifehacker.
Be sure to read the comments - even more sources there.
Geek to Live: Find free music on the web

About Music...

I've been hunting for free/lo cost music for my students to use in their videos. It's tough going, but here's some sources I've found so far. What do you use?
Creative Commons
Internet Archive
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Folktunes.org
Open Music Archive
Ourmedia.org
Jamendo
Podsafe Music Network

How Copyright Affects iTeachers

The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Content in the Digital Age A Foundational White Paper: "In particular, we wanted to explore whether innovative educational uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copyright. We found that provisions of copyright law concerning the educational use of copyrighted material, as well as the business and institutional structures shaped by that law, are among the most important obstacles to realizing the potential of digital technology in education."