Diane's+fair+use+concerns

As a kindergarten teacher I have not yet put any of my students' work on the internet. My plan for using my newly acquired expertise is sharing with parents. The aspect of educating them about how a blog works is important. I need to let them know it's not an email, but a public space.

In my district's handbook the internet guidelines are very vague, dependent on the form that's signed.I believe it would also be helpful to have the information on the form in the handbook, since the family returns it school, and no longer has it as a reference.The sentence below is all that's in our handbook:

"Educational use of the Internet is now available. Use, however, is contingent upon having on file a contract (specifying terms and conditions) signed by the student, parent, and teacher. Teachers will hand out contracts as appropriate."

A former teaching partner had a kindergarten blog aimed at teachers. That is a project i would like to pursue, as a way to connect and break out of the isolation that occurs when you close your door.

Resources

This site has extensive links to resources of images and text that are public domain. With just a little bit of searching I found amazing images of migrant workers during the depression. It would be great for older grades. Here are some questions about many of our assumptions.

Here they are. How many of these statements do you believe? [|Public Domain Sherpa]
 * 1) [|If a work is within the scope of most people’s general knowledge it’s in the public domain.]
 * 2) [|Anything I find on the Internet is in the public domain.]
 * 3) [|If a work doesn’t have a copyright notice on it, it’s in the public domain.]
 * 4) [|If a work has a copyright notice on it, it’s //not// in the public domain.]
 * 5) [|If I republish or repackage a public domain work, I can claim copyright in it.]
 * 6) [|Posting a video to YouTube puts it in the public domain.]
 * 7) [|Books that are out of print are in the public domain.]
 * 8) [|All US government works are in the public domain.]
 * 9) [|Statues and other art works on federal property are in the public domain.]
 * 10) [|If a work is in the public domain I don't need to get permission from anyone, no matter how I want to use it.]