ThinkQuest International 2008 Website Competition

I read an article about students that design websites for the world to use sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation, this is a competion that everyboddy wins for their websites will be printed in the ThinkQuest Library on-line resources visited by millions monthly. Students ages 9-19create a team and have a teacher as fa coach to guide them.The top five teams recieve a labtop and cash awardfor the coaches school.This is a neat fumn way to allow students to work together and be creative.

Copyright for Teachers in the Digital Age

I read an article from the Teaching Today newspaper and it just happened to be about a topic we discussed earlier in the semester in my technology class about copyright. Copyright is a touchy subject where it seems like not many people know about the rules. The article talked about how much you can actually do without the permission of the author of the material being copied. It talked about making the same copies year after year from a master you made years back, and that is not OK, there is a limit to how many copies can be made on this published work. A Simple fix for student s who use others digital photos and other things for their website just simply need to be sited. Music is also included in this we just simply even need to model to our students by not copying so many things from media and books in an improper way because children will pick that up easily.