Creative Commons and Copyright

We all know that if we take information from a printed text either directly quoted or paraphrased we need to cite our source. However taking words, images or other works digitally can present a challenge for our students.   When we teach this skill we talk with all of them that although no bells or sirens go off if you copy and paste words or images into your work you have to hold yourself to acting with principle as in our learner profile. Just because you can do it does not make it right. 

Our students are taught to give credit or cite the source of the image or article they are using. However giving credit is not the same as having permission to use the image, sound or other work.  We encourage all our students to use Copyright Free databases or sources that ISZL provides.

Copyright is a licensed work that requires the author/artist to give permission before the work is used. 

Creative Commons is a set of licenses that an author/artist give to to their work to make sharing the work easy and accessible for all.  Check out Creative Commons

An important thing to remember when doing research is that citing a source is not the same as having permission to use the source. To navigate copyright and creative commons we have some great information posters.

Use the right site

Images:
Britannica Image Quest

http://quest.eb.com

DK Clip Art

http://www.clipart.dk.co.uk/

EduPic Graphical Resource

http://www.edupic.net/index.html

Free  Digital Photos

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net

Imagebase Free Photos

http://www.imagebase.net/

Morguefile

http://www.morguefile.com/

NASA Images

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/index.html

Pics4learning

www.pics4learning.com

Wikimedia Commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org

Compfight

http://compfight.com

Google advance search

Filter by Usage Rights: Free to use and share. This does not mean that all the results are copyright free –just that they are not labelled as copyrighted. You will still need to go to the original website and cite the photo properly from there as well as check for permission.

www.google.com/advanced_image_search

Music:

Create your own music in GarageBand

Freeplaymusic

http://freeplaymusic.com

Opsound

http://opsound.org

Use music/sounds that are embedded in a web 2 tool like Animoto or Wevideo.

Content:

The school pays for safe and free for use databases. Check the school database list for up to date password information. Some of the databases are:

• BrainPop

• Encyclopedia Britannica

• WorldBook Encyclopedia

• Science Power (an extra feature of World Book)

• Webpath Express (an extra feature of Destiny)

Always use at least 2 sources of information. Remember just because it is on the internet does not make it a FACT!!

Visit the ISZL library if you need more information

Cite your sources responsibly in MLA format

Use a citation maker to help you format your sources properly.

The school pays for Noodletools an online citation maker. Check the school database list for up to date password information.

The ISZL Homework diary has examples of MLA formatting

TIPS to creating a good citation:

•Check the source you use to see if it includes a citation within the article or image.  Copy the citation directly into the Works Cited page in your paper.

•Write down the information about your source as you are looking it. This will help you create your citation in an online citation maker later.

Visit the ISZL library if you need more information

Digital Curation

Digital Curation at Zug Primary The library team is looking at ways of doing research more effectively. We know that how we access information has changed. WHAT HAPPENS ON THE INTERNET IN 60 SECONDS

We need to find better ways of gathering information than just a standard Internet search. The Zug Campus library team wants to teach community members how to find and locate information effectively, both in the physical and virtual space. A solution to effective information gathering in a virtual space is Digital Curation. We are currently figuring out a way to curate digital information so that it becomes easily accessible to our students.

 Information is found through a variety of online sources and we need to make these sources accessible in an organized efficient way. As we construct meaning and personal understanding from a range of different information sources, we need to access this information on the Internet in a better way.

There are experts out there curating information on every topic, and we have to find a way to tap into the information that they have gathered. A typical search for information has us looking through vast amounts of ‘hits’ or ‘results’. We need a more efficient way of finding and sorting this information. We need to access the curators of this digital information or curate it ourselves so that we can streamline student research. Too often the problem when doing research is not too little but rather too much information.

Take a look at the ISZL LIBRARY DIGITAL CURATION SITES and see if there is a new way you or your child might locate information and do research in a different way. These are not the only curating tools, just some student friendly sites.

We are developing a research tool kit that will be available on here on the library blog soon! Tools that will help us evaluate the information, as well as how to find the information. When looking at a site of information about any topic we need to look at:
Currency
 Reliability
 Authority
 Purpose/Point of view

We ask students to cite their sources as early as 3rd grade and hope that this will become habitual practice. We also need to ask them to think about annotation too, this may be as vital as a citation, something we all should be considering as we look at any site we use.
Who wrote it?
Why did they write it?
How does it help?
 We need to get kids to think like scientists or journalists or artists. Searching is not about getting quick answers. It is the process of coming to the right question, to the knowledge we need.

Battle of the Books

January 28th---We had a great turn out of reading teams competing to represent our school in the Middle School Battle of the Book competition. We all had great fun at the Semi Final Battle here on campus but one team emerged vicarious. This team then went on to compete against ICS and ZIS in the final Battle on February 6th! After a challenging first round they were not daunted and they tripled their score in second round which secured their 2nd place finish. Well Done Everyone on the fantastic reading!