Thursday, December 9, 2010

Creative Commons Licensing

When choosing an image from Flickr you may notice that the images offered are under different forms of licenses.  Each license provides an explanation of the terms of usage of the images (works).  These include the following:
Attribution...others may copy, display, distribute and perform your work-as long as they give you cred
Attribution-NoDerivs...others may copy, display, distribute, and perform your work as long as it is verbatim copies of your work
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs...you may display, distribute, copy, and perform your work, as long as it is verbatim copies for non-commercial purposes
Attribution-NonCommercial...others may display, distribute, copy, and perform your work along with derivatives of your work, as long as it is for non-commercial purposes
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike...you may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work for non-commercial purposes
Attribution-ShareAlike...you may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Romeo & Juliet Podcast

Very recently I switched my job as a 9th grade special ed teacher to a 9th and 11th grade English teacher.  All of the resources that I have been exposed to during this course must now be geared towards English.  When looking through Podcasts that I may use in my own teaching environment I stumbled upon the dramatic reading of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.  As one of the upcoming pieces of literature that my 9th graders will be studying I am thrilled to have found such a resource.  The reading of each act of Shakespeare's tragic love story are read by a teacher and his students that are very capable of reading Shakespeare.  Because students oftentimes struggle with reading Shakespeare I was hoping to provide auditory aides so that they may listen to the text in order to avoid stumbling over the words and Shakespearean language.  Students can access the following site, Romeo & Juliet Podcast , to catch up at home or review scenes or acts.  Will definitely be using in the next couple of months!!