Okie’s Outlook

• WOW! I didn’t know there was a website that would automatically ‘fix’ a citation for you…The Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/index)
• I never would have guessed “Happy Birthday” is still under copyright until the year2030!!!
• Copyright is an ‘unregistered right’…the creator or author of material does not have to fill out a form to have it copyrighted.
• Copyright only protects works/material of tangible substance…word of mouth is difficult to prove.
• Ideas are not copyrighted
• Facts are not copyrighted
• Copying how ideas/facts are addressed or expressed IS copyright infringement.
• Students are watching educators…educators need to be vigilant and thorough in teaching, modeling, and policing copyright limitations.

• is there an easier/correct way?
• can there ever be just one (1) way that everyone could accept as correct for citations?  (APA, MLA, etc.)  As long as work is cited, it should be OK and not so critically analyzed
• is there an easy way for educators to accurately check student work that’s not so time consuming (besides Turn it in.com)?

• copyright is getting increasingly more important and more coverage lately
• it pertains to human rights, privacy, and ownership to a certain extent of words/property/product
• not giving proper credit is plagiarism
• citations are time consuming and a pain…
• with the www plagiarism is on the rise
• more responsibility is being put on teachers to relay to their students the importance of copyright/citations and the consequences that could happen
• teaching citation skills must start early
• current educators need to be vigilant, consistent, and thorough in teaching, learning, and policing copyright activities

Collaboration

To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.

The act or process of collaborating.

WEB WORDS:A lesson for vocabulary practice using dictionary-tooltip from Firefox

Grade: 5

Objective: Students will be able to navigate through a weekly vocabulary list to define 15 words using the dictionary-tooltip add-on with 100% of those word definitions to be copy and pasted to a WORD document and emailed to the teacher.

Activity:After the teacher demonstrates how to use the dictionary-tooltip by modeling with a projector, students will be told to practice their own skills of double-clicking on a predetermined list of 15 vocabulary words.

• students will double-click on the word to activate the dictionary-tooltip
• students will copy and paste from 2 different dictionary sources the definition and paste it to the WORD document
• when all 15 words have been defined, the student will then email the document to the teacher at http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/TOkoniewski/

Assessment:

Did the student define all 15 vocabulary words using dictionary-tooltip?

Did student include at least 2 different sources for the definitions?

Did student email the completed document to the email address as directed?

QuickNote Organizer
Name:Tanya Okie
Date:10/4/07
Hour:6:30
Your Mood:major HEADACHE!!!

Chapter 2 – “What Brain Research Tells us About Learner Differences”

1.learning involves all 3 areas of the cortex

Chapter 3 – “Why We Need Flexible Instructional Media”

1.the same material but presented differently
small/big

Chaper 4 – “What is Universal Design for Learning” -

1.how do we make these goals and objectives obtainable?
evaluation and assessment

Chapter 5 approaches goals – using UDL to set clear goals

1.wide range of students
apply to standards
motivate

Chapter 6 – materials and methods for reaching goals

1.what do you do for every student?
skills?
strategies?

Chapter 7  – focuses on assessment

1.barriers
new media
in real classrooms

Chapter 8 – “Making Universal Design for Learning a Reality.”
Can it really happen?
no perfect example

*no system-wide example
*this is an approach/journey
*UDL origin is in architecture

How can a teacher support Strategic, Recognition, and Affective Learning?

What to do as a teacher…

*highlight critical features that make student different
*support background knowledge
How can the student increase their background knowledge?  Provide it and support them in the process
*motivate the students create a self-regulated atmosphere conducive of learning

–http://btcactus.org/news.cfm?subpage=105042