Most teachers are now comfortable having their students create multimedia projects, but are still uncomfortable with the whole “copyright-fair use” guidelines that go with it. Grabbing an image from Google is easy, but how do you know if the owner of that image has given permission for it to be used? Fortunately there are many sites out there that make it easy for students and teachers to integrate technology on a regular basis. Using music and photos from these sources ensure that students are in compliance with the digital citizenship strand of NETS. …And yes, I’ve already checked to make sure they are not blocked by our new content filter.

To make it easy on students, save this Free and Fair Use Hotlist on the student shared drive for easy access.