Using Videos with Google Forms

I just came across this post by Melissa Murphy. A fantastic idea for using Google Forms with YouTube videos.

Day 4 - Embedded Video

What Can I Copy from the Internet???

A Few Words About Copyright

"Question Copyright"
CC licensed (BY-SA) 2006 Stephan Baum

According to Canadian Copyright laws, the first person to author/ create a piece of work has right to reproduce, publish and sell their work. This applies to writing, performances, art, recordings and communication signals. That means any original work you or your students create is copyrighted by you regardless of whether or not a copyright symbol is actually on it or not.*

Copyright extends throughout the creator's life, the rest of the year calendar year in which they die plus an additional 50 years. After that period, the work enters the Public Domain and can be used by anyone. You are always welcome to used copyrighted work IF you get permission from the copyright-holder. Without that permission, you cannot normally use their work.

The Canadian Copyright Act DOES NOT protect ideas, concepts or themes - but it does protect the language and words used to express them... Thus, you and your students are welcome to build on the ideas of others but not copy their work. As teachers, we ask students to do this all the time and to cite their sources of inspiration. However, citing your source does not give you permission to break copyright laws and copy someone's original work. This applies pictures, music and writing.

Educational Exceptions

"Copyright Intro" CC Licensed (BY-NC-SA) 2011
via the Center for Computer-Assisted legal Instruction's (CALI)
flickr photostream 

In 2012, Canada modernized it's copyright laws to include some Fair Deal Exceptions.

Bill C-11 stated that copyrighted materials could be used for research, private study, education, satire, parody, criticism, review or news reporting without the creator's permission IF responses to the following questions could be deemed fair:

1. Purpose: Is the copying really for its intended purpose or have you created a new purpose for the work?
2. Character: Can my copy be destroyed immediately after usage or will multiple copies continue to exist that could be confused with the original or somehow impact the original?
3. Amount: How much of the original work is being used? Is it a reasonable amount that you think the creator would agree to?
4. Alternatives: Is there any other alternative? Is a non-copyrighted equivalent available? Was taking this work the only possible option?
5. Nature: Is the work publicly available (e.g. not confidential or unpublished)? Did someone share it who shouldn't have?
6. Effect: What effect will copying this work have on the earning potential of the original - will I take a share of the market?

If you feel like you could confidently argue your answers to these questions in court if challenged by the creator then go ahead and use the work. If not, then it's probably best to find an alternate source...

More information about copyright can be found using these links:

• More info and lessons on Fair Dealing from MediaSmarts
• Student Guide to Copyright for MultiMedia Presentations from Mount Royal University - interesting examples on the differences between showing a slideshow and providing handouts of the same slideshow, use of music, use of video
• Canadian Info for teachers about classroom materials - caution: this does not model for students what they can do outside of an educational setting

"Copyright Checkmark" CC licensed (BY-SA) 2011
by Hammersoft

Where to Find Images that are Free to Use and Share

Many photographers allow others to use their work. Students are being encouraged to use these simple sites to find pictures where usage has been granted:

• Pics4Learning
• http://pics4learning.com is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. ThePics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection. Citations are provided.
• Veezzle
• http://www.veezzle.com is a free stock photo search engine that searches other image sites. Citation information differs depending on the source. (it had some hiccups recently which seem to have been fixed)
• Google Advanced Search
• Do your search. In Images go to the gear and click on Advanced Search. You can change all kinds of things - in this, case scroll to the bottom and filter the images that are free to use or share. It’s hard to find the citation information.
• HaikuDeck
• Available online or as an iPad app that lets you create simple slideshows and has a plethora of images available for use without having to cite any sources

A few more options are available on Mount Royal’s LibGuide about Copyright Information

Citing Your Sources

Websites often use images without the creator’s permission and the Copyright Act does not specifically say how images that are free to use or share should be cited. However, other guidelines do exist:

1. What to include in MLA Website Citations
2. What to include in APA Website Citations
3. What to include in Chicago/ Turabian Website Citations

Pam and Lara have created a draft document that describes how to cite sources. But remember: this just proves that you are not plagiarizing and gives credit to the creators, citing your source does not give you permission to copy anyone’s work.

* There are some exceptions to automatic personal copyright:

• works prepared for or under the direction of the Government of Canada are owned by the Crown
• works created by employees as part of that employment are owned by the employer
• sound recordings are owned by the person who made the arrangements necessary for the sounds to be recorded
• actors, singers, dancers and musicians own their performances
• signals emitted by broadcasters belong to the broadcaster

Using Google Forms to Simplify Marking with Rubrics

By taking a few minutes to set up a Google form, you can drop your highlighter and pen and click away to get your marking done. All your results are saved in a spreadsheet for easy reference later.

Once you're comfortable with that, add on a script and have students receive their results by email once you've marked their work!

This will be covered in our Tuesday Tech-in-20 session on January 21st (12:10-12:30) if you are interested.

Step 1: Set Up the Form

This strategy is very effective when you re-use the same rubric over and over throughout the year. We developed this example rubric for assessing problem solving in math - the problems change throughout the year, but the rubric does not. A similar rubric has been created for evaluating oral presentations in French.

 

If you need help with creating a Google form, just let me know. 

Once the basic form has been created, you will want to:

• replace email addresses with students you will be marking repeatedly using this rubric (suggestion: put yourself in this list too so that you can use yourself for testing that it all works)
• set response destination (click the button to set the spreadsheet where the results will be saved)
  
  

Step 2: Try it out!

Go to the live form and enter some data. What assignment is it? Choose yourself as the student, and then assess your work.

Now check the response spreadsheet - you will see the summary of all the results you have recorded. As you use the form to record assessments over time, these results can be sorted to examine trends.

Step 3: Email students their results (entirely optional)

Your next step is to communicate the results to the students. If you want to conference with each of them, you have your marks handy in the spreadsheet, but it is even easier to click a few buttons and have the boys receive a copy of their assessment in their Gmail inbox!

Chad Kafka has a very thorough explanation on how to add the Form Emailer script to the spreadsheet and then configure it so that your students receive an email each time you hit submit on the form. I have also compiled a video tutorial showing you how to walk through this process. For example, a student might receive this message:

If you're interested in making this work for you, let me know.

Here's a 12-minute video tutorial showing you how it all works:

- Sarah

Padlet

Thanks to the few that attended our first Tech-in-20 session this week. We quickly reviewed the online sticky-note tool called Padlet.

Here are some of our notes from the session:

A few examples:

• Brainstorming ideas - http://padlet.com/wall/socialmedia7L http://padlet.com/wall/6jnetiquette
• Vocabulary - http://padlet.com/wall/1rbmyjr47x
• Collecting resources - http://padlet.com/wall/2scfnhq2j5
• Displaying work - http://padlet.com/wall/ucc6-7photography
• Weekly planner - http://padlet.com/wall/PadCal (organize greeters or class announcers?)
• Managing projects - http://padlet.com/wall/kanban_wall

Try it by posting on a padlet:

http://padlet.com/wall/ucctechin20 - use this padlet to post ideas for other tech in 20 sessions

Creating your own account:

• Go to padlet.com
• Click green “Login or Signup” in top right
• Choose red “Login with Google” button - grant access
• Create a new wall
• modify wall properties with the gear on the right side
• title
• description
• wallpaper
• layout - freeform vs streamed
• privacy (generally, hidden link works well)
• moderate posts - turn this on if you are making your padlet public
• notifications
• address - customize this if you want the url to be something familiar for sharing with your class

The Padlet Blog is a good source of ideas too!

 

Introducing Tech in 20

When forming our ICT Philosophy, teachers requested a variety of PD. Since many people are available from 12:10-12:30, we are introducing Tech in 20 - learn new ICT tools and techniques in just 20 minutes!

We will support a variety of tools for either the laptop, iPad or both.

Every Tuesday from 12:10-12:30 in the library back room.

On Tuesday, October 29th we'll start with an introduction to Padlet. 

Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher) is a collaborative tool that organizes ideas on a wall (like sticky notes). It can be used for brainstorming, sharing, planning etc. You and your students can post text, photos, videos and then organize them as you see fit. Click here to see several examples of how it can be used.

See below for other upcoming Tech in 20 sessions!

Easy Notebook Access for Students!!!

Hello all,

Over the last few years I've been working on creating a library of Smartboard Notebook files to teach various grammatical concepts and to impart reading strategies in French. The only part that I needed to improve was having more kids interact on the Smartboard at one time. Solutions included:

a) Smartboard table: But was mostly used by kindergarten and really young kids, some of the files did not transfer successfully but worst of all was the limited ability of the class to view it. I suppose a work around could have been to hook up a projector to the table;

b) Notebook for Ipad: That's right it's out. However, its not very successful. There seems to be one particularly annoying glitch which is, once you upload a single file, it's the only one it'll run until you delete the app and re-install;

Finally, with one:one it looks like this may all be possible:

There is a website: http://express.smarttech.com/# which allows you to run Notebook files through the website.

Instructions:

1. Share a Notebook file with your students through google drive. Don't worry, you cannot preview notebook on google drive, but it still works
2. Have the students place the file that was shared with them into My Drive 
3. Tell your students to go to http://express.smarttech.com/# 
4. Next, they click on Open and Existing Notebook File
5. Next go to Google Drive in the Finder and select the file the teacher shared.

A New Year, A New Calendar

Welcome Back!

The transfer from our FileMaker calendar to the Prep School Events Google Calendar was made in July. Everything went smoothly and now we should only have one calendar to worry about.

You should already have the Prep School Events calendar listed in your Other Calendars section. If not, scroll to the bottom of this post for a video tutorial on how to add this calendar to your own.

We have done our best to build in an event approval process into this calendar as well. In the past, we would input all the details for an event into FileMaker and wait to see our event appear on the calendar if it was approved. Hopefully the process outlined here is fairly straightforward.

Adding an Event

This tutorial demonstrates the event approval process from choosing a time to having the event either approved or declined. The key steps involved are as follows:

• Find an appropriate time in the Prep School Events Calendar
• Add the event to your own calendar
• Invite the Prep School Events calendar (under rooms - uncheck the availability box)
• Add details in the description section or use the template
•  Wait for an email
• If approved - finalize your plans
• If declined, comments will be provided. Delete the event from your calendar and start again.

Viewing the Prep School Events Calendar

If you don't already have the Prep School Events Calendar (or the Holmes Lab or Library calendars), this tutorial can help you add them to your own calendar under the "other calendars" section. Remember, you can always turn these calendars on and off by clicking on the coloured box next to the calendar name.