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Skype in the Classroom

by Wesley A. Fryer
www.wesfryer.com

Internet connectivity in educational settings provides opportunities for interactive exchange and collaboration between students living on other sides of town or the other side of the planet. These synchronous, real-time discussions using free software like “Skype” can tangibly expand the walls of the traditional classroom and engage students to write, share, and communicate with an authentic audience inaccessible just a few years ago. Educators interested in helping motivate students to develop both traditional as well as twenty-first century literacy skills in the classroom can and should use audio conferencing technologies like Skype to literally plug their students into collaborative exchanges with global partners on a variety of projects.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma

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Open tasks for WikiProject Oklahoma. Edit or discuss these tasks.

• Current collaborations: Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
• To Improve to Featured standard: Will Rogers, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Tulsa
• To Expand: Robert J. Sullivan, Jr., Philbrook Museum of Art, Ford Center, Tulsa Zoo, BOK Center, Bell's Amusement Park, Frontier City, Oklahoma State Capitol, Kate Barnard, Politics of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Republican Party, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Eusebius J. Beltran, Sooner Catholic, James Robert Jones, Boggy Depot, Oklahoma (an authentic Oklahoma ghost town), Tulsa (the 1949 film); Oklahoma State Senator Glenn Coffee; add {{Infobox City}} to town and city pages.
• To Create: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Land Run of 1891, Land Run of 1892, Land Run of 1895, Henry Bennett (former OSU President), Oklahoma Territorial Legislature, Oklahoma Lottery, .
• To Clean up: Kim Holland
• To Merge:
• Lists to complete: List of radio stations in Oklahoma, List of television stations in Oklahoma, List of newspapers in Oklahoma, List of Oklahoma rivers, List of people from Oklahoma
• To Destub: See Oklahoma stubs, University of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State stubs
• Wanted Pictures/Graphics: Requested photographs in Oklahoma, Requested photographs of OU campus

Shortcut: WP:WPOK WP:OK

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Oklahoma with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the participants section.

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Creative Commons in K-12 Education

By Wesley A. Fryer
www.speedofcreativity.org

Is it legal for me to use this picture in my slideshow presentation? What if we put it on the Internet, is it still legal? What about including music in my digital story? What can we do legally at school, and what can students legally do at home when they are not working on an assignment for class?

Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003

(Published in the TechEdge 2002-03)

"Do I have to get permission to use this?" "Is this legal?" "If it doesn't have the copyright symbol on it, is it still copyrighted?" These are important questions, but unfortunately there are often not clear answers to them. Misconceptions abound among educators today about what uses of multimedia are permissible and legal in the classroom under US copyright law, and it is critical to address and correct these ideas. The advent of mp3 file compression has heralded a new day for music piracy, and online services like Napster have morphed into "peer to peer" (P2P) file sharing clients apparently out of legislative reach, like Morpheous, Kazaa, Limewire, and many others. The issues are real, and the need for educator guidelines is clear. Not only do educators have a responsibility and legislative mandate to model ethical, legal, and appropriate respect for US copyright law in their own teaching, but they must also educate the next generation about the importance and requirements of intellectual property law. Given the dynamic nature of not only technology, but copyright law itself, this is a formidable challenge.