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FREE Sync YA AudioBooks

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:47:00 +0000

Back again this summer is SYNC, a program designed to develop young adult audiobook listeners. Each week beginning TODAY two complete digital audiobooks will be made available during that week only. One title will be a current YA title and the other will be a classic. Downloads are mp3 format hosted by OverDrive (must have OverDrive Media Console-free), both Mac and Windows compatible, with most listening devices supported. Go to the Sync Group on the AudioBook community for download links each week.

Available June 23 - June 29

Shiver by Maggie StiefvaterRomeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Available June 30 - July 6
Little Brother by Cory DoctorowThe Trial by Franz Kafka

Available July 7 - July 13
Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-FattahA Passage to India by E. M. Forster

Available July 14 - July 20
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph DelaneyBeowulf by Francis B. Gummere [Trans.]

Available July 21 - July 27
Chanda's Secrets by Allan StrattonTess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Available July 28 - August 3
Ashes, Ashes by Jo TreggiariRescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea by Dorcas S. Miller [Ed.]

Available August 4 - August 10
Immortal by Gillian ShieldsWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Available August 11 - August 17
Storm Runners by Roland SmithThe Cay by Theodore Taylor

Library Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:51:00 +0000

Salem Press sponsors the Library Blog Awards. Nominations come from the blogosphere and public voting takes place and then the judges decide which blogs are exceptional in thinking, writing, and information.

The 2011 Salem Library Blog Awards have been announced in eight different categories: General, Public, Academic, School, Local, Quirky, Newcomer, and Commercial. Here are the winners:

General: Librarian in Black
Public: Swiss Army Librarian
Academic: Information Tyranosaur
School: The Unquiet Librarian
Local: Cecil County Public Library
Quirky: A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette
Newcomer: Hack Library School
Commercial: NeverEndingSearch

The Unquiet Librarian (Buffy Hamilton) and NeverEndingSearch (Joyce Valenza) are both in my iGoogle Reader. You can find some great blogs by checking out the other nominees in each category.

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77319680@N00/2134380212

Some rights reserved by Breno Peck

Professional Development Opportunities

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:56:00 +0000

The first opportunity is not really PD, but it is a great "feel good" activity. Diane Ravitch, the “best living historian of education” (Washington Post) and America's “soberest, most history-minded education expert” (Wall Street Journal)," gave a speech, The Future of Public Education, that "analyzed the current state of American education—what’s broken and what are the best ways to fix it." The event was sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters on March 8, 2011. Her presentation and the Q&A session have been archived here. If you need a lift for your spirits, get a 90 minute pep talk.

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In January WEMTA's Wired Wednesday webinar was 21st Century Assessments by Naomi Harm. Wow!!! Naomi shared a wealth of online resources to help 21st century educators develop checklists, rubrics, and open-text assessments as well as a wealth of databases with many, many high quality ready-made assessments which can also be modified for personal use. This webinar is archived, but you must be a WEMTA member to access the archive and resources. I was most impressed with the 21st century teaching methods used by Naomi Harms to present this webinar. It is worthwhile just to see how professional development can be presented let alone the content that is presented.

There are two upcoming Wired Wednesday webinars: April 13th - Internet Safety & May 11th - Intellectual Freedom. Register here. Free for all WEMTA members. All previous webinars are also available in the archive.

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On March 7, 2011 the TL Virtual Cafe hosted a webinar, A Sweet Way to Search the Web. The presentors were Shannon Miller, a teacher librarian, and Mark Moran, the founder of Dulcinea Media. Dulcinea's "mission is to help change the reality that most students cannot effectively conduct research on the Internet." Several search engines known as SweetSearch have been developed to help students, teachers, and librarians find the best resources which have been evaluated and approved.

TL Virtual Cafe will be offering these upcoming webinars: Copyright Clarity, March 14th; Screenagers and the Digital Window, April 4th; Diving into Digital Books -- Adding eReaders to your School Library, May 2nd; and DIY Summer Reading List, June 6th.

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Don't Copy That 2, a webinar by Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) was presented through edWeb.net on March 8th. SIIA's updated anti-software-piracy video was screened and Q&A's followed. Here's a link to the presentation including the live chat. The video and teaching resources can be downloaded here.

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EDWEB.NEt's Invitation:If you are a teacher, administrator, librarian, or professional working in any level of education, join edWeb to create communities for collaboration - it's free.

edWeb is a great networking site for educators. There a lots of different communities for sharing, discussing, and learning from others with the same interests. The categories range from all curricular areas to higher ed to administration with everything in between. I highly recommend Using Emerging Technology to Advance Your School Library Program community, which has a monthly webinar and they are all archived. I also belong to the Exploring eBooks for K-12 community. Some days my mailbox is full of messages from the discussion forums especially after a webinar. Participating in edWeb is great way to enlarge your professional learning network.

A-Z Web Tools

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:57:00 +0000

photo © 2010 Joy | more info (via: Wylio)There will be a great series of blog posts by Ozge Karaoglu, an EFL teacher in Istanbul. In her blog, Ozge Karaoglu's Blog: About teaching, learning, reflecting and being a 21st century learner & teacher... she is blogging about tools available on the Internet. Her method of sharing some great tools is probably not unique, but will keep us reading for at least 36 days. You may have guessed that she is sharing tools in alphabetical order first, then numerically. She has already completed the letters A and B.

Ozge works with very young children, however, the tools she shares could be used at any age. By reading her A-Z Web Tools series, I'm sure that you will find many new tools.

You can subscribe to her blog and/or add it to your RSS aggregator.

TL Virtual Cafe Webinar

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:13:00 +0000

Don't miss the webinar scheduled for Monday, January 3rd at 7 pm CST. Three ISTE SIGMS leaders will present ideas on how to become instructional leaders during Creating a Community of Instructional Leaders in Your School or District

Participant Link

Scroll down to see the TL Virtual Cafe webinars scheduled for the remainder of the school year.

Using Wylio

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:54:00 +0000

photo © 2010 Frits Ahlefeldt-Laurvig | more info (via: Wylio)

Wylio is a search engine for creative commons images. Search, preview an image, resize it, and c/p the embed code which includes a citation caption.

It's a much easier way to find images, use them ethically, and give credit where credit is due.

Happy Holidays with Wondersay

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:40:00 +0000

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Explore, Explore, Explore then VOTE

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:53:00 +0000

Voting for The Edublog Awards is now open until 12 PM US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday December 14th, only 10 days away.

Voting tips listed by Edublogs:
One vote per IP per category — sorry, it’s the only way to avoid rigging, to a degree, your colleagues and students are just gonna have to go vote from home… or from their iphones ;)
You can vote for multiple categories at the same time, so vote once, but vote broadly!
Results will not be displayed at all until the awards ceremony

There were so many nominations that a team of judges had to narrow the nominations to a reasonable shortlist in each category. Even with the shortlisting process most of the 23 categories contain 20 or more nominations.

So get busy exploring the nominations. I have found that exploring is the best way to locate people and resources for your personal learning network.

Elements of Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:55:00 +0000

Elements of Social Media
Originally uploaded by buzzersation

This is a GREAT image to use when describing social media.

Advocacy Webinars

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Earlier this month I attended one of ALA Washington's Grassroots Advocacy Webinars live. The webinars are archived as well. The description for the webinar I attended is below:

In this session, we look at one simple action you can take each month to get elected officials not only to understand library issues, but to actually do something about them.

How One Advocacy Action Per Month Can Change the World from ALA Washington on Vimeo.

Advocacy "guru" Stephanie Vance presents sugegestions for an advocacy calender. The calendar allows for planning and organizing one's advocacy efforts for an entire year and keeps those efforts continual rather than only at the time that budgets are being developed, or when a position and/or program is being considered for reduction or elimination. The advocacy plan is broken down into monthly segments that move sequentially from one activity to another and build upon previous activities. Ms. Vance is very down to earth throughout the presentation and includes examples to illustrate the activities each month. I really enjoyed the presentation and think is would be useful to try.

There are many other grassroots advocacy webinars that focus on a different aspect of advocacy, as well as a three-part online course, "Messaging and Talking with Congress: An Interactive Workshop" offered free to ALA members.

The ALA Washington Office website includes lots of great information and a link to the Legislative Action Center.

It's that time of year again

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:46:00 +0000

Edublog Awards nominations can be made through Friday, December 3rd. There are many categories, not only blogs, but tweeters, podcasters, audio and video users, webinar series, wiki creators, and others.

Here are my nominations in some of the categories:

Best individual blog: Larry's Loon Blog

Best individual tweeter: Shannon Miller

Best group blog: School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids' Books

Best resource sharing blog: Free Technology for Teachers

Most influential blog post: You know you're a 21st century librarian when... from Doug Johnson's Blue Skun k Blog

Best teacher blog: Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Best librarian/library blog: The Unquiet Library

Best educational wiki: Pathfinders Swap

Best webinar series: Using Emerging Technology to Advance Your School Library Program

Best educational use of a social network: edWeb.net

October's Posts

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:15:00 +0000

Experimenting with Wordle, creating a word cloud, using the url of this blog.

Thanks to EdTechUNcon for directing me to 6 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom, a SimpleK12's 2 Minute EdTech Talk for this week.

Using Flashcards

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:14:00 +0000

I've been exploring a few of the online flashcard applications. (Braineos, BrainFlips, CoboCards, Cramberry, FunnelBrain, HeadMagnet, Memorize.com, Quizlet, and StudyStacks)

I found two sites that met my criteria: BrainFlips and Quizlet, though not completely.

I wanted to find a site that would help with the practice of typing an author's name and title, with the correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
The flashcard set had to be accessible simply with a url, without the need to login.

BrainFlips has three ways to use a cardset to learn. Introductory, where the author and title are displayed side by side. Traditional, where the title is shown and the user thinks the

correct author, then flips for the author. The user selects whether their answer was correct or wrong. A scoreboard shows how the user is doing. With the Response mode the user types the answer (author) and is automatically scored. The scoreboard shows the results and amount of time used. The cards can be randomly shuffled and/or display cards incorrectly answered more frequently. The only problem was that the cards could not be reversed from title, then author or shuffled between t/a and a/t. So I ended up creating two cardsets, one for authors and another for titles.

Quizlet has flashcards similar to the Introductory and Traditional modes of BrainFlip without the scoring.

With the Study: Learn selection the user types the answer and can set how to score (punc

tuation, capitalization, spelling count). With Study: Test the user can select how many types of questions

(short answer, multiple choice, matching, or T/F), how to score answers, and whether to test for A, T, or both. There are also two games. The study: test optionv can be set up per my criteria, however, the problem is that the user has to do it. Here's the cardset I created.

I ended up using BrainFlips.

Digital Books for Digital Students

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:27:00 +0000

I just attended a webinar, eBooks and Audiobooks for K-12 Schools, sponsored by OverDrive. Their School Download Library service was explained and demonstrated. The service includes eBooks, audiobooks, video, and music, though, you can select the type of content you want. Two models were explained: One student at a time (content purchased) or Unlimited, simultaneous use (content by subscription). Or a combination.

OverDrive customizes a remote website for your needs with selections from 300,000 titles with use options like burn-to-cd, print, read-out-loud, transfer to portable devices, and access from mobile devices. You can also upload your own content, anything that is available in a word document. Training is included as well as MARC records.

As for cost... the unlimited model is based upon student enrollment. The figure that was mentioned was up to 2,000 students, about $4,000/year. Sounds costly for a small school or district, however, about 50% of the subscription cost includes content credit to purchase titles and begin developing a digital collection. Other costs mentioned were about $10 for an ebook and $35 for audiobooks. I'm sure that cost for one time use would be much less and you can probably set up cost parameters.

I would recommend this webinar if you're interested in adding digital content to your collection. The webinar isn't archived, however, additional webinars will be offered in November. Check out the OverDrive website or schedule a private demo.

K12 Online Conference

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:00:00 +0000

October 11th - pre-conference keynote -Dean Shareski

October 18th - 22nd - Week 1's strands - Leading the Change and Student Voices

October 25th - 29th - Week 2's strands - Week in the Classroom and Kicking it Up a Notch

October 29th - Closing keynote - David Warlick

This is a free online conference with over 40 presentations. During the conference dates you participate by downloading the presenter's content or viewing it online, reviewing it, and then posting feedback or comments. K12Online's Ning is the conference conversation hub. If you are new, please refer to the GETTING STARTED page. The wiki provides information for participants as well as presenters. The blog provides news and announcements.

Check out the schedule, presentors, and teaser videos to help you select the presentations for your own professional development. If you can't participate during the conference, have no fear. Everything is archived!

Banned Books Week 2010

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:55:00 +0000

Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the impact of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Find more information and ideas on how to celebrate the freedom to read here, here, here, and here.

The Banned Books Week site has a cool map showing where censorship is occurring.

The National Book Festival at the Library of Congress is another venue for information.

If you are Second Lifer, check out Banned Books Week in Second Life.

Look for READOUTS happening at your public library or favorite book store.

The Reform Symposium

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:41:00 +0000

This electric conference was an outstanding example of a what can be accomplished with the help of one's Personal Learning Network. The entire conference took place via Elluminate sessions which have been archived. Podcasts are being made available as well.

My favorite was the keynote by Shelly Blake-Plock. He gave many examples of practical and everyday uses of online tools such as Twitter, wikis, blogs, and more. How his classroom was converted to function as a 21st century classroom is amazing!

Two others that I enjoyed and recommend are Richard Byrne's Back-Channeling in the Classroom and Joe Bower's Abolishing and Replacing Grading.

The links for the archived Elluminate sessions are found on the ABOUT tab, MEET THE PRESENTERS. Each presenter has a separate page with information and a description of their presentation with links to their website, Twitter handle, and the archived Elluminate session.

A Google doc, Links-Reform Symposium 2010 , was collectively created to gather links discussed by the presenters or shared in the chat by the participants into one great resource.

Back to School Special

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:32:00 +0000

TL Virtual Cafe's Transformative Conversations for the 2010-2011 school year have begun. The first webinar has already occurred, but don't worry, the Elluminate session will be archived as well as the text chat, slides used during the presentations, and other resources will be available on the TL Virtual Cafe wiki.

The first webinar, Back to School Special: Making You and Your Library Indispensable, was presented by three different teacher librarians. Keisa Williams talked about what she does in her elementary school, Gwyneth Jones discussed her middle school program, and Shannon McClintock Miller shared what happens in her secondary program. Lots of great ideas were presented as well as discussed in the text chat.

Plan on attending next month's October 4th webinar with Doug Johnson presenting on the Changes in the Physical Library.

Newspaper for Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:51:00 +0000

Paper.li is a site that creates a daily newspaper for links shared on Twitter by user/s, list, or #tag.

Now I don't have to feel like I'm missing anything when I'm not logged into Twitter. I created my own Twitter newspaper and I receive an email with the link to today's paper. Paper.li collects the links, photos, and videos, then categorizes the information into subjects. Just a few are shown on the front page for each subject with the option of viewing all.

Look at mine for an example. Here are some others that I also like: #tlchat Daily (teacher librarian chat); #edchat Daily; and #edtech Daily.

Hiatus OVER

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:50:00 +0000

It's been awhile!!!

I've been using Twitter, attending webinars, and reading, not sharing or writing.

My plan is to restart the blog and make sure that the post are short and to the point.

Fighting the Filter

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:40:00 +0000

I'm not a member of ISTE, however, I am a member of the ISTE-SIGMS, a support group for school librarians and others "who are working to promote the use of instructional technologies to enhance student learning." (Find out more about ISTE-SIGMS below.)

The first activity of 2010 was a webinar, "Fighting the Filter" presented by Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Librarian. Ms. Hamilton's presentation included 13 different strategies to remove the "roadblock of fear," ways to challenge and change filtering policies.

Establish a conversation with the decision makers in control. Gather your documentation in support of access to web-based information and send it to those decision makers and cc your principal.
Ensure that filtering policies and procedures are in writing. Volunteer to serve on any filtering policy committee.
Collect examples of effective instructional practice to include with documentation when arguing for the use of a specific resource or tool.
Develop a plan for the use of that resource and how it will be implemented.
Develop a plan for addressing the potential challenges.
Advocate for intellectual freedom and equity of access to information.
Become transparent - show why/how the resource makes a difference.
Advocate for the digital citizenship which 21st century students will need.
Remind decision makers that students need guided instruction to learn how to use the resource effectively.
Enable students to voice their needs to decision makers.
Collect qualitative and quantitative data to support your story of the effective use of the resource.
Tie your argument to performance standards, i.e. AASL, NET-S, and district/building goals.
Let students learn how to be their own filter.

KEEPING TRYING AND BE PERSISTENT!

In addition to Ms. Hamilton's presentation there was a back channel also happening. Much conversation and sharing took place with Ms. Hamilton and among the attendees. A great suggestion that one attendee voiced was changing AcceptableUsePolicy to ResponsibleUsePolicy.

Ms. Hamilton has gathered various resources including the slides used in her presentation at ISTE-SIGMS Filtering Issues Webinar LibGuides. She also shared bookmarks from her Delicious account here.

If you are not a member of ISTE-SIGMS go to the ISTE Community ning and sign up and then participate in the discussion in the Media Specialists SIG group. See the sigms home's schedule of upcoming activities.

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The Eddies

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Nominations for your favorite blogs close on Tuesday, December 8. Be sure to read about the two step process of nominating:

Write a blog post with links to The Edublog Awards Homepage and the sites/blogs you nominate.
Use the form on the Edublog Awards homepage to send the link to your blog post.

Voting ends Wednesday, December 16.

Awards announced Friday, December 18.

Here are my nominations in a few of the categories:

Best individual blog: apophenia by danah boyd

Best individual tweeter: @ShellTerrell (Shelly A. Terrell)

Best group blog: School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids Books

Best resource sharing blog: Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne

Most influential blog post: Things That Keep Us Up at Night by Joyce Valenza & Doug Johnson

Most influential series of tweets and/or Best educational use of a social networking service: #edchat on Twitter by Shelly Terrell, Tom Whitby, Steven Anderson, and Jerry Swiatek, who archives the Twitter #edchat discussions.

Best librarian blog: Not So Distant Future by Carolyn Foote

Best educational wiki: Springfield Township Virtual Library by Joyce Valenza

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K12 Online Conference 2009

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:44:00 +0000

It's almost here!!! The K12Online Conference 2009.

THE DATES of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference: For the past three years, K12Online has taken place in late October. This year, the conference will be held the second and third weeks of December, just prior to the holidays. Week one will be December 7 – 11, 2009, and week two will be December 14 – 18, 2009.

THEME & STRANDS for 2009: This year's theme is “Bridging the Divide” and the four strands, two each week, will be "Getting Started", "Week in the Classroom", "Kicking It Up a Notch", and "Leading the Change". New this year will be “LAN Party” live events on the Saturday following each week of the regular conference in partnership with EdTechTalk.

During the FIRST WEEK Joyce Valenza will keynote the "Getting Started" strand with presentations that will focus on specific, free tools for newcomers. Konrad Glogowski will keynote the "Leading the Change" strand, which will both showcase successful strategies as well as amplify critical issues which must be addressed for innovative learning methods to be adopted by teachers, librarians, and administrators on a more widespread basis.

The "Week in the Classroom" strand during the SECOND WEEK will be keynoted by Rachel Boyd with presentations that will explore how teachers and students are tangibly bridging divides between instructors, learners, classrooms, content, and experts outside the traditional classroom. Diego Leal will keynote the "Kicking it Up a Notch" strand with presentations that will explore innovative ways Web 2.0 tools can be blended together to help students create, collaborate, and share the knowledge safely on the global stage of the Internet. (I was totally surprised to find out that I have been following Mr. Leal on Twitter where he is known as @qadmon.)

There will be 50+ presentations, not counting the keynotes. And, every single one will be available 24/7 as soon as each is published. They will be shared online in a downloadable format and released simultaneously via the conference blog, the conference Twitter account, and the conference audio and video podcast channels.

You can participate in the PRECONFERENCE keynote by Kim Cofino. Find out more here.

K12 Online 2009 will be a great way to begin your professional development. So don't miss out.

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NECC 2009 Is Over, But Still Lives On

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:00:00 +0000

I'm finally through perusing the NECC 2009 schedule to increase my personal learning. If you have some time on your hands, I'd recommend that you glance through the schedule and see what catches your eye. There's a wealth of possible content available from digital storytelling, Moodle, blogs, wikis, SmartBoards, digital portfolios, podcasting, GoogleEarth, cell phones, and on and on.

Or find a session that was recorded. Though, not every session has a video, sometimes there's a url available with valuable resources or you can identify an expert that you can follow on Twitter and/or add a blog to your RSS reader.

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Beating the No U-Turn Syndrome

noreply@blogger.com (ArborVitae 2.0) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:03:00 +0000

Doug Johnson gave this presentation, Beating the No U-Turn Syndrome: New Approaches to Copyright Compliance at NECC 2009. Yep, I'm still working my way through NECC's schedule viewing/listening/learning.

Mr. Johnson says that we will end up being confused at a higher level. What he really did was get me to think about copyright, fair use and becoming more consumer oriented. The statement below from his presentation wiki summarizes his purpose better than I can.

Too long librarians have been seen as “copyright cops,” impeding the use of copyrighted materials by students and staff. This presentation suggests we redefine our roles, helping those we serve take maximum advantage of fair use provisions, finding authorities with a “user-centric” view of copyright enforcement, and teaching others to consider not just the legal, but moral side of intellectual property acquisition, use and re-use.

Our focus should be turned around to what can be done, not what can't be done. Don't be afraid to use fair use. He reminds us that guidelines are only "safe-harbor" limits. You don't infringe by using copyrighted materials in teaching, researching, criticizing, or news reporting. The transformative nature of parody, commentary, quoting to trigger discussion, illustrate, or provide examples are not infringement. Making use of multimedia for personal portfolios, class work, or conference presentations are not infringement.

We should push the limits and question authority. Make use of the u-turn assumption that it can be done unless otherwise posted. And think about the "blue laws" of copyright. Blue laws are those laws still on the books, however, they are not enforced because they are so old and obsolete, or they are so violated that they should be taken off the books. Mr. Johnson gives a great list in his presentation and asks us whether or not these uses are something that we want to fight for?

An educator's job is to create thinkers. Let the administrators enforce the laws. Educators should become copyright counselors. "You can't give morals and ethics to others, you can only get others to talk which allows them to clarify their own ethics." And don't become a format bigot.

We should encourage the use of:

public domain, copyright friendly, and royalty-free resources.
creative commons as a consumer and as a producer so that we can emphathize with creators.
discussion to reach an ethical level of comfort when using, creating, and re-mixing content.

The presentation is worth an hour of your time with practical tips to make your job easier. You might want to have the wiki open at the same time you are viewing and listening to the presentation. I found some of the presentation slides on the wiki and was able to read them more easily than those seen on the ISTEVision video presentation.