Tutorial 2

Blogs, Visuals, Copyright and Digital Tools in Literacy

Tasks

Blog 3 key ideas or activities from each reading on your blog that teachers would find useful:

Pericles, K. (2008). Happily blogging @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6 http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/

Barone, D., & Wright, T. E. (2008). Literacy instruction with digital and media technologies. The Reading Teacher, 62(4), 292-302

Copyright at university and schools:

Use this link to the Australian Copyright council then select the PDF titled Education- Copyright Basics to answer these questions and post the answers on your own blogs:

Can I copy material from the internet for research?
What constitutes research and fair use?

Can students ( university or school ) use music in videos that they make?

Collect & Create:

Using the listed photo sites below, collect a series of images you could use with your class to:
- create a text innovation on a picture book create a powerpoint template for the text innovation
- create a jpg image of one powerpoint screen and post it on your blog.

Photo/Image Sites:
Stock.xchng
One of the best free sites. Register and you can search for images, which are free to use for educational purposes.

Science Image
The CSIRO site. No fee for educational use.

FreeFoto
Free for non-commercial use.

FreeImages
More free to use photos.

Flickr
Check the usage for each photo before you use, or search with the creative commons filter.

Happily Blogging:
Find 2 or 3 educational blogs you could use to model to your class as examples of effective blogs or that could be used as a resource for learning (content).
-Post a link to each on your blog with a brief review that states the purpose, age group, content and features that make it a good model or resource for students.