Copyright Issues: Fair Use

One thing to keep in mind is our responsibility to respect copyright laws when posting student work on the Web as well as the materials we use in our classrooms...I am referring here not so much to the students' rights (a different topic) but to the fact that fair use rules that apply within a physical classroom space do not necessarily apply to the Web. See Copyright 101 for Educators" from the Technology and Learning website, and "Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web" from the University of Maryland library.

Creative Commons

We should explore this as a possibility for works on public or semi-public sites. For example, the parkscience.pbwiki.com, which is not indexed by search engines but can be found by anyone going through the pbwiki site, has a number of labs and assignments I've written, and while I'd happily share with teachers, I wouldn't want someone else making money off of them.