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Copyright and Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens  provides a variety of practical resources designed to help teach digital citizenship concepts. It's our job as educators to teach and then reinforce to students the protections and limitations of fair use and copyright as they learn online, create online, and share online. Check out free, easy-to-understand lessons and videos for  Elementary , Middle School , and High School pages under the Resources tab.  For your own learning, there's a  Professional Development page. 💪 copyrightandcreativity.org/why-teach-copyright-2/ Lastly, check out the  Copyright and Distance Learning  page with a handy printable for teachers and administrators. Maybe you'll display the printable in your library?  Maybe you'll add it to your curated list of teacher/professional resources?  Perhaps you'll share it with staff in a weekly update email or a quick staff meeting? Make it more digestible by also providing q...

Thinking about heading back to the school library either in person or virtually... or both? Be sure to check out the COVID-19: SD School Libraries page on the SD State Library Resource Guide.   There you'll find a collection of back-to-school and at-school/at-home resources aligned to what we do in our school libraries. Topics include cleaning and care, digital books, read-alouds, copyright and fair use, digital learning tools, professional time, and SDSL K-12 databases. Newly added:  COVID-19 Publisher Information Directory from School Library Journal Lists numerous publishers and revised copyright and fair use policies due to the pandemic. Starting Well  from the SD Department of Education Provides South Dakota specific guidance for reopening and daily operations for the 2020-21 school year. Second Snapshot of School Librarian Roles during School Closures from AASL School Library Closure Impact Surveys via Knowledge Quest Captures trend data and includes questi...

Lately, I've received quite a few questions about the topics of copyright and fair use.  I thought I'd share two resource links that may be helpful as you teach digital citizenship skills. The first is  my curated Pearltrees collection.  This collection has links about copyright, fair use, free-to-use images, plagiarism, etc... The second is one that I've link on this Pearltrees list. It's called  Copyright & Creativity , and it's pretty great. It's a free, one-stop-shop for teaching topics of copyright and digital citizenship; and as busy educators, don't we love that? Within this website you'll find comprehensive lessons to teach elementary (1 per grade level), middle, and high school students about copyright and fair use. Each lesson has slides and a PDF for the instructor plus short videos to show students. There are also printable posters and a  flyer  to share with stakeholders. You'll also find a professional de...