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[ICTs in English] ICTs in English Weekly update - Mashups and Authentic Learning About Reuse and Usage Rights
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- From: Hamish Chalmers <hchalmers AT ashs.school.nz>
- To: ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz
- Subject: [ICTs in English] ICTs in English Weekly update - Mashups and Authentic Learning About Reuse and Usage Rights
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:23:22 +1200
Hi everyone,
I guess it isn’t all that surprising that creating visual texts and issues of usage rights, copyright and information freedom often go together. This pairing can be a pretty darned handy one for teachers. Not only are there opportunities for students to learn about visualising ideas, there are also opportunities to learn about the legal and ethical issues that go with it.
Karen Melhuish put me onto a pretty awesome opportunity (and a bunch of relevant resources that go with it) for students to get involved in learning in both these areas. NZTA (yes, the NZ Transport Agency!) is running a competition for schools where students design an infographic and then publicise it around their school. The VLN also has another great resource (which has links to even more resources in it such as visual.ly) on this event page. There’s also mashup support offered for Wellington teachers by the Wellington loop.
The VLN page also has a link to this guide on reusing digital content. This is an excellent place to start on developing your own knowledge on reuse and potentially fashioning into learning activities for students on reuse and usage rights. It also gives some really nice reasoning for why students might like to release their own works under one of the creative commons license, not to mention a concise explanation of what the different licences are.
Which takes me to my next favourite topic, the visual text creation standards! Getting students involved in a competition like this seems a great way to get them primed for creating a visual text for any of the level 1-3 standards. Given some structures and a task in place, they could even use their competition entry as a visual text for the standard. Seems like a pretty jolly authentic piece of assessment to me.
We’ve had some action on the list this week with a post from Claire Amos where she kindly shared a presentation she ran on ICTs in the classroom. If you’ve haven’t looked at it already, it’s chock full of ICTs with clear links to the English curriculum and uses for them in an English class. Catherine Lee’s post on video resources and poetry around a “How does the strength of the human spirit help people cope with traumatic experiences” course had some great responses from the community.
Hamish Chalmers
Facilitator: ICTs in English
http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/
- [ICTs in English] ICTs in English Weekly update - Mashups and Authentic Learning About Reuse and Usage Rights, Hamish Chalmers, 05/09/2012
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