Raise Awareness of Rules for Digital Properties

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Raise Awareness of Rules for Digital Properties
Your students interact with music, movies, software and other digital content daily. Do they understand the rules surrounding the appropriate use of these digital properties, and why these issues are relevant? The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content curriculum is a turnkey instructional program made available for free through Microsoft sponsorship. It was designed to raise awareness and foster better understanding of the rights connected with creative content. The curriculum resources offer a comprehensive set of cross-curricular classroom activities that are divided into four thematic units. Each unit consists of 4 to 6 standalone yet complementary lesson plans that provide a variety of ways to engage students in the learning experience. The program was designed for grades 8–10, but easily adapts for use in grades 6–12. It aligns with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and covers subject areas that include civics, computer science, debate, fine arts, economics, government, journalism, language arts, drama and video production.
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Blog About Books

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Blog About Books
Presented by National Geographic for Kids, DogEared is a blog about books—good books, funny books, adventure books; books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places . . . every kind of book that kids enjoy. Why is the site called “DogEared”? You know when you read a book and you turn the top edge of a page over to mark your place? That’s called a “dog-ear”! Students mark (“dog-ear”) the Web page so they can return to it often in order to read real kids’ reviews and recommendations. They also share their own opinions and create their own reading wish list—as if it were their own online book club.
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Study Significant Children’s Literature

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Study Significant Children’s Literature
The Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota is one of the world’s great children’s literature research collections. The materials in the collection are studied by teachers, librarians, students, authors, illustrators, translators and critics who come from Minnesota and other states as well as from many foreign countries. The Kerlan Collection presently contains more than 100,000 children’s books as well as original manuscripts, artwork, galleys and color proofs for more than 12,000 children’s books. One-eighth of the books are inscribed by the author or illustrator. The collection includes books that are significant in the history of children’s literature, award books, classics and representative books from Great Britain, Australia, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and others. Many of the books are available for online viewing.
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Plus: Be sure to explore the university’s Oz Collection, Paul Bunyan Collection and Treasure Island Collection.

Wordle

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Check out this java applet that creates “clouds” out of inputed text. In the example below, I used my name with words associated with the content I teach. http://wordle.net/ There are tons of possibilities for using this in the classroom.

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