Copyrights

=Teaching About Copyrights=

Site: A Visit to Copyright Bay
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Description:
This fun, interactive site created by the University of St. Francis in Joliet, IL, is intended for teachers. Its purpose is to educate them on fair use in educational settings. It includes explanations of copyright law and its impact on making single or multiple copies of printed materials, using copyrighted works in multimedia projects, using audiovisual works in lessons, and using copyrighted works in online classes or other distance learning situations. It also includes streaming video of an interview with Laura Gasaway on how the TEACH Act impacts distance learning. There is also a quiz over fair use in education.

Level:
Because the primary audience for this site is teachers, this lesson plan is intended to be used as a part of a professional development workshop to educate teachers on copyright law. However, it can be adapted for the middle school classroom.

Lesson Plan:

 * 1) Divide adults into groups of ten.
 * 2) Allow each group to divide into pairs and "jigsaw" the following topics: (a) making single copies of printed materials (Single Copy Inlet); (b) making multiple copies of printed materials (Cove of Multiple Copies); (c) creating multimedia presentations (Multimedia Wharf); (d) using audiovisuals in lessons (Audiovisual Lagoon); (e) copyrights and distance learning (Dist Ed Point and Pearls of Wisdom).
 * 3) Each pair will go to Copyright Bay at [|www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay] and research their topic by visiting their area of Fair Use Harbor. (Listed next to their topic in parentheses.)
 * 4) Following their research, the pairs will "jigsaw" back into their group of ten, and each pair will verbally share what they learned about their topic.
 * 5) Together the group of ten will create a travel poster or travel brochure encouraging other teachers to visit Fair Use Harbor in Copyright Bay. The product must include a "tour" or explanation of what can be learned at each place in Fair Use Harbor.
 * 6) Each group should produce enough products to have one per school building represented in their group, so that they can take the product back to their schools and use it as a visual to briefly share what they learned about copyright law and fair use in a staff meeting, and to encourage their colleagues to go to the Copyright Bay web site.