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Diane Bounds Librarian, Penn Manor School District Conestoga & Hambright Elementary Schools diane.bounds@pennmanor.net

=Links to Copyright Information for Students= Cyber Bee Interactive game with questions and answers regarding common copyright questions.

Taking the Mystery out of Copyright from the Library of Congress Short video showing copyright information.

=Links to Copyright Information for Educators= Table that shows the copyright guidelines for various types of Media. Great resource to be printed out and posted in your classroom. Flowchart to help you determine if a resource is copyright protected or not.

Copyright for Teachers and School Librarians Website that lists frequently asked questions teachers and school librarians come across with answers. Great reference site if you have a quick question!

Teaching Copyright Curriculum on how to teach students about copyright and Fair Use. Contains great resources and discussion questions. Geared towards high school students but contains great handouts and information on copyright.

Copyright and Fair Use from Stanford University Libraries Detailed information on the laws regarding copyright and Fair Use.

A Fairy(y) Use Tale A short video on Copyright and Fair Use using snippets of Disney movies.

Code of Best Practices for Fair Use In Media Literacy Education Sometimes using copyrighted materials is the best way to convey a message when teaching students about media literacy. This website contains resources on the Code of Best Practices in using copyrighted material with students.

=Citations= MLA Citation Style from Long Island University Color coded cheat sheet for making citations using the MLA style, Sixth Edition.

Citing Web Sources MLA Style Posted by Virtual Salt. Gives clarification and examples on how to site Websites with an author, without an author, etc.

EasyBib Free citation maker for MLA format. If you want different formats you will have to register for a paid account.

NoodleTools Citation maker that is very user friendly. Many school districts in the IU13 area are using this with students.

=**Great Sites to find Copyright Free Images**= Creative Commons Great resource for finding different types of media that is licensed under Creative Commons.

Pics4Learning Searchable database of copyright free images for students to use in projects. Each image has a bibliographic citation below it to be copied and pasted into a bibliography.

Power Library - AP Images Online Searchable database of magazine and newspaper images. All Power Library databases are accessible within your school. Outside of your school, you will need to enter a valid Lancaster Public Library barcode to access the information. The collection can be searched using specific search criteria.

The user can search the database by pre-defined concepts. The concept corresponds to the idea the photograph is displaying. The searchable concepts are: adulation, aggression, amusement, anger, bizarre, boredom, burden, celebration, cold, comic, concentration, concern, confinement, confrontation, content, contrast, curious, cute, defeat, deserted, despair, destruction, determined, devout, diligence, dry, enjoyment, excitement, family, fear, freedom, friendship, grief, happy, hot, humor, isolation, lonely, love, mature, meditative, pain, passion, peaceful, pensive, poor, power, pride, reverence, searching, serene, hock, solemn, spacious, speed, stark, strong, suffer, surprise, tension, thin, tired, tranquil, vanity, violent, weak, wealth, wet, wonder and youth.
 * CONCEPT SEARCH**

Example: celebration:concept

You can also conduct a search by dominant color. The 10 hues represented in the database are: blue, red, yellow, green, orange, white, black, brown, purple and pink.
 * COLOR SEARCH**

Example: yellow:hue

Category searches are broad searches that may be helpful to find photos in the database that you have a particular interest in. The searchable categories are: sports, international, business, and news.
 * CATEGORY SEARCH**

Example: sports:category

You can also search for a particular type of photograph. The searchable photo types are: portrait, aerial, pattern, silhouette, vertical, and horizontal. Or you can use exact names, places or things to narrow your search down.
 * PHOTO TYPE SEARCH**

Example: JFK and portrait:phototype or portrait:phototype Example: Statue of Liberty and aerial:phototype or aerial:phototype

Smithsonian Institution's Office of Imaging and Photographic Services Smithsonian database of images. The Smithsonian has given permission for all of their images to be used for educational purposes.

Great Images in Nasa Database of Nasa images to be used for educational purposes.

Library of Congress Teacher's Page Searchable collection of primary sources from the Library of Congress. Collections of images can be found on specific topics.

Primary Source Learning Selected Sources (Themed Collections link) (need a free portfolio) A portfolio is needed to search this database of media from the Library of Congress. All images are attached to primary source based lessons.

New site not discussed in workshop. Culture Grams provides citations for their articles and images for students to use in their presentations. Passwords are required from your school district when not in the building.
 * Culture Grams