Schoolwires+Advanced

** April 23, 2012 ** ** 4-6 p.m. North Penn High School room K-024 **
 * Schoolwires Advanced Training for Classroom Teachers **

** Session Description: ** This advanced class is available to teachers who currently have a Schoolwires website and are actively updating content. This training will include nesting hierarchy, inserting tables, and the use of new features available – blogs, podcasts and photo galleries.

** Agenda: **

1) Hierarchy a) Users must create the pages first, then organize them b) Turing hierarchy on and off (Place pencil/ add sub link/ select your page/ add url)  c) Why use hierarchy? d) Our TECH TIP on HEIRARCHY

2) Table a) Edit a page and click on Insert Table icon. b) Draw table to fit desired size  c) Click “Edit Table/Cell” to edit a cell, edit table properties, or add or remove columns or rows

3) Photo Galleries a) Tools > Files & Folders > Batch Upload – to upload pictures b) Tools > Files & Folders > Photo Gallery – to create and manage photo galleries c) Edit a page > Insert Photo Gallery > Select gallery > Save

4) Active Blocks a) Click the ActiveBlocks icon. b) embedding simple content – for teachers who have sites in two buildings and want to mirror specific pages

5) E-Alerts – send a message to all subscribers when a page is updated a) How to subscribe – “Access My Info” (top right) > “Edit Subscriptions” b) When editing any page, click “Create E-Alert” to send the message to subscribers

6) Blogs a) Teachers must keep default settings so that only approved comments are posted b) This is a public site. Students must not use full names when posting. c) Other options for blogging – MOODLE, Wikispaces, Kidblog d) In Site Manager > Click “New Page” > Click “Blog”

7) Podcasts a) In Site Manager > Click “New Page” > Click “Podcast” b) Name the page c) Click “New Episode” d) upload the audio file e) options for recording audio files

8) Acceptable Use Policy a) Web Posting Guidelines [|Web Posting Guidelines.pdf] b) Board Policy #6166a  [|policy 6166 - Acceptable Use Policy.pdf]  c) Board Regulation #6166 [|regulation 6166 - Acceptable Use of Computer Network and Internet.pdf] d) Board Policy #6167  [|policy 6167 - Internet Safety.pdf]  e) Copyright and Fair Use:

The purpose of copyright protection is repeatedly and mistakenly reported to be for the protection of authors and others intellectual property owners. In fact, copyright has been always been for the purpose of benefiting society as a whole and particularly the institutions of education. Learning, or "science" in the language of the Enlightenment and the Constitution, was to be promoted by allowing authors and others rights for a limited time for their work. The first copyright act written into federal law was titled "The Education Act." Teachers in the classroom make the decisions closest to the field of instruction and it is teachers that have been the greatest rights---rights that even their districts do not have.

**Fair Use and Teachers** Fair use explicitly allows use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Rather than listing exact limits of fair use, copyright law provides **four standards for determination of the fair use exemption**:
 * 1) **Purpose of use**: Copying and using selected parts of copyrighted works for specific educational purposes qualifies as fair use, especially if the copies are made spontaneously, are used temporarily, and are not part of an anthology.
 * 2) **Nature of the work**: For copying paragraphs from a copyrighted source, fair use easily applies. For copying a chapter, fair use may be questionable.
 * 3) **Proportion/extent of the material used**: Duplicating excerpts that are short in relation to the entire copyrighted work or segments that do not reflect the "essence" of the work is usually considered fair use.
 * 4) **The effect on marketability**: If there will be no reduction in sales because of copying or distribution, the fair use exemption is likely to apply. This is the most important of the four tests for fair use ([|Princeton University]).


 * SOURCE**: [|http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm#Fair%20Use%20Matrix%20for%20Teachers]

** Notes: **

Documentation is available in Site Manager. Click Community & Support > Click Continue > Click Documentation (Centricity Resources)

Video Tutorials are available in Site Manager by clicking the "Tutorials" icon.