10.0 Curriculum
11.0 Subject Specific Knowledge
12.0 Design and Management of Learning Environments/Resources
13.0 Child Development, Learning and Diversity
14.0 Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues
14.1 Establish Classroom policies and procedures that ensure compliance with copyright law, fair-use guidelines, security and child protection.
14.2 Ensure equal access to media and technology resources for all students.
14.3 Social, legal, ethical issues related to technology use (Demonstrates knowledge and integration of network security and Acceptable Use Policy into teaching).

14.0 Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues

14.1 Establish classroom policies and procedures that ensure compliance with copyright law, fair use guidelines, security, and child protection.

• Demonstrate Knowledge of LEA Copyright Policy or Acceptable Use Policy
• Develop procedures and policies for a collaborative classroom project
• Develop web page development policies or guidelines for child protection (electronic publishing of names, addresses, and photographs)
  

14.1 In the classroom	I will make it understood from the first day of school that we will be applying both local, state and federal guidelines when it comes to using technology in the classroom. On the first day of class, students will receive their permission forms in home room so they may use the computers for this school years.  They need to take those home and have them signed by a parent and returned before they will be allowed access on the computer. Once the permission forms are in, one will stay with me and one will be given to the media center, where we house our computer lab.  Once all of the forms are in we can begin the differentiated instruction using the classroom computer for research, student development skills, and student projects. Before students begin using the computer in the classroom or the lab, I will go over with them the Acceptable Use Policy of the school and the restrictions that they will encounter regarding using the resources from the web.  We will discuss fair use and copyright rules as they have been handed down from the state. As a review, we will go over Acceptable Use Policy and the copyright and fair use criteria often, this way before each lab visit they will remember the rules and guidelines they are held by. I will post the Acceptable Use Policy, copyright restrictions and fair use criteria in the computer area, so that students in doubt may access this information at any time. I will have discussions with my students on privacy and the correct use of software.  As a group we will work to respect the rights of our classmates and the materials that we are using.  I will follow the guidelines of the school, when dealing with infractions, so that the same treatment for offenses that do happen will be given to all students.
Visit our local web sites to learn about their computer compliance.	http://www.asheville.k12.nc.us/ Asheville City Schools Home Page http://eclipse.co.buncombe.k12.nc.us/public/ Buncombe County Schools Home Page
Example of a school's Acceptable Use Policy	http://eclipse.co.buncombe.k12.nc.us/public/brcurr.html This link links to the Buncombe County School Board Policies, although the Internet link is not yet operational.  It soon will be and then their Acceptable Use Policy will be accessible from the Internet. http://209.215.83.4/amsweb/ This link is to Asheville Middle's home page.  They are working on linking their Acceptable Use Policy directly to their school's home page.
Visit the state web site for information on state copyright and fair use regulations.	http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ http://www.ncpublicschools.org/copyright1.html This web site provides a general overview of copyright policies and guidelines for multimedia use in the State of North Carolina.
Resource for Developing an Acceptable Use Policy	http://www.pen.k12.va.us/go/VDOE/Technology/AUP/home.shtml
Examples of University Acceptable Use Policies	http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/responsible-use/ http://www.hmc.edu/comp/policy/appropriate-use.html http://www.itpo.iu.edu/policies.html
The Federal Trade Commission has summarized their interpretation of COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998:	http://www.ftc.gov/os/1999/9904/childrensonlineprivacy.pdf
Computers in Education Chapter 13 by Dr Houghton	http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/houghton/EDELCompEduc/ Ch13/Ch13SocialLegalEthical.html

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14.2 Ensure equal access to media and technology resources for all students

• The only technology at present I have had in my classroom that is available for student access is the classroom computer.  In the unit plan, The Voyage Home , students are encouraged to use the class sign up sheet for the computer.  I will be monitoring this sheet so that I know all students have had an opportunity to work on their projects independently using the class computer.

• In an attempt to avoid the problems that often plague equal access, students who finish their work always having computer privileges, friends grouping together and monopolizing the computer, and other problems related to the fact that some students have computer knowledge due to home computers and some do not.  I have decided to divide my classes into teams.  Since the Ninety minute class can only be divided into three thirty minute sessions each team is made up of three people.  There are ten teamstotal to account for the classes that I have which may have thirty students.  These are assigned on the first day of school.  Click here for an example of the class sign up sheet.

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14.3 Understand social, legal, and ethical issues related to technology use.

Utilize the NC Skills Curriculum when developing a lesson on ethical use of technology- Ethical Use Lesson Plans.

Ethics in Education
http://www.ethicsineducation.com/
This web site helps teachers teach ethics in their classroom

Lesson Plans in power point format
http://www.foukeffa.org/lesson%20plans.htm
They have different lessons that provide a range for AG students.  The ethics from this web site is hunting ethics, but I feel this could lead to discussion of ethics in general.

Congress link
http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplanstuact.html
This allows students to step into the role of a congressman and explore issues and ethics.

Legal Pad Jr.
http://www.legalpadjr.com/school/lessons/safety/
A web site with lesson plans using legal and ethic issues, which address internet safety issues.

David Loudy is an Attorney of Law
http://www.loundy.com/
Legal issues and links

The Media awareness Network
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/cpigs/cpigs.htm
Has safety lessons for the information highway.

Chip says Use Technology Responsibly
http://www.computerlearning.org/RespComp.htm
Features a code of responsible computing, educational materials, posters, and strategies for teaching responsible computer use.

• List Examples of Ethical and Unethical issues

• Summary of Copyright and Multimedia Procedure

• General Guidelines students can use lawfully acquired copyrighted works in their academic projects if they give proper credit and citations.  These can be kept in a personal portfolio of academic work.  Students and teachers must site that their presentation has been prepared under fair use exemption and are restricted from further use.

• Educators can use for face to face curriculum based instruction, demonstrations of how to create products, present at conferences but not share, for remote instruction, keep for only two years.  Fair use ends when creator loses control of product's use such as when accessed on internet.  If for some reason believe project may be used commercially get permission.

• Fair Use Guidelines for Multimedia
  
  •   Text up to 10% of copyrighted work or 1000 words.  Poems can be inentirety if less than 250 words.  If longer 250 words or less.  No more than 5 poems of different poets per anthology.  Only three poemsper poet.
  •   Motion media up to 10% of a copyrighted work or 3  minutes.  Clips can not be altered in any way.
  •   Illustrations a photograph or illustration may be used in its entirety.  No more than five images of an artist's or photographer's work.  If using a collection no more than ten percent or fifteen images whichever is less.
  • Music up to ten percent of a copyrighted musical composition but no more than thirty seconds.  Up to ten percent of a body of sound recording but no more than thirty seconds.  Any alterations can not change melody of character of work.
  • Internet resources often combine copyright and public domain be careful when downloading sites.
  • Ask for permission from internet sites if including additional links to a site.
  • Numerical data sets up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries whichever is less from a copyrighted database or data table.
  • Copying and distribution limitations do not claim fair use on an unsecuredsite.  No more than two copies of original product may be made.  Only one may be made for reserve for others to use instructionally.  An additional copy may be made but can only be used if original is damaged.
  • If more than one person has created a multimedia presentation each creator may have only one copy.
• •   If more than one person has created a multimedia presentation each creator may have only one copy.
  •   Alteration limitations may be altered to illustrate technique or support and instructional objective, should note within document itself.
  •   Multimedia presentation citations, educators and students must credit sources and give full bibliographic information.  display copyright notice and copyright ownership.  Show copyright info in separate section unless must be seen when viewed. 
• This information is found on the ncdpi web site:
• http://www.ncpublicschools.org/
  http://www.ncpublicschools.org/copyright1.html
  This web site provides a general overview of copyright policies and guidelines for multimedia use in the State of North Carolina.

• Articles that talk about this issue can be found in Dr. Houghton's Chapter 13:
• http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/houghton/EDELCompEduc/Ch13/Ch13SocialLegalEthical.html
  
  

Choosing Not To Go Down the Not-so-good Cyberstreets       http://netizen.uoregon.edu/documents/nwnas.html         Students Behaving Badly       http://www.chronicle.com/free/v46/i04/04a03501.htm         Selected Issues in Educational Computing http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houghton/EDELCompEduc/Issues/issues.html

• In my unit plan, The Voyage Home, our first order of business before we begin accessing the internet will be to discuss fair use and copyright laws and how they pertain to my students.  Since this is a unit I have not taught yet, I will not have commentary on the outcome of this until after I have discussed this with my first set of students experiencing this unit.

• In the past, my main role to insure that legal issues were fulfilled was in the obtaining of Waiver forms from students, where their parents gave them permission to use the internet.  I provided the sites, and students were filling out work sheets the school designed from reviewing the web site.

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