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February 17, 2026

1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, log into a Chromebook, and go to WYAW (While You Are Waiting).
   
   
2. Digital Whiteboards:
   1. Canva https://www.canva.com/
      Let's try....https://bit.ly/kwlwhiteboard
      
      
   2. Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ (formative assessment alert!)
      
      
      • Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ Scroll down to find Join session and wait for your instructor to give you the code to join.
        
        
        
      • Follow your instructor's directions for how to interact with the various Graphic Organizers in the saved board.
        
        
3. Copyright and fair use. Seems boring? It's really fascinating!
   
   
1. Renee Hobbs and Fair Use: Practical tool for students and teachers...
   Document the Fair Use Reasoning Process (Source: Media Lab)
   
   
2. Let's explore more......https://mediaeducationlab.com/copyright
   
   
   
   
   
3. What is fair use and what media is included? https://musc.libguides.com/copyright/fairuse#loaded
   
   
4. Why is this important for NC Teachers and Students?
• State and National Standards for Teachers: Citizen and https://iste.org/standards/educators
  2.3.c Teach Safe, Legal, Ethical Practices
  
  
• State and National Standards for Students: Digital Citizens https://iste.org/standards/students
  1.2.c Intellectual Property
  
  
5. COPYRIGHT: Movies in the Classroom
   

Source: https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/copyright/video

The Copyright Act at §110(1) (face to face teaching exemption) allows for the performance or display of video or film in a classroom where instruction takes place in [the] classroom with enrolled students physically present and the film is related to the curricular goals of the course. (Apr 8, 2021)



6. What about using video in online classes or environments? If it's OK for online is it also OK for face-to-face?
   https://uri.libguides.com/fairuse/examples/video
   
   What about streaming movies from Disney Plus or Netflix?
   https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/copyright/video (Scroll down the page)
   
   And finally, what about outside of a classroom for educational purposes?
   Disney Fines School for Showing Lion King at PTA Fundraiser
   Original Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/04/disney-lion-king-school-fine/
   
   
4. Use of copyrighted music (for teaching?) Is it fair use?
   

   Let's assess this video for Fair Use.... Video Clip from The Shining Soundtracks from: Disclosure, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Jaws, Ace Ventura,The Shining

   Music can make a difference..... When we start creating digital stories, we'll see how.

   
   
5. Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/
   
   Want more information? https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/
   
   
1. Looking for media that has CC licences and that can or most likely can be used in accordance with Fair Use?
   Look for wikimedia commons and/or CC licensed material or .gov files since, in general, government files are in the public domain (https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/selected-internet/imagesources.html) including NASA (see here for more resources from NASA for educators https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html). However, some media and the logos are copyrighted but fall under fair use if you are using it for educational purposes.
   
   
2. Some good copyright friendly websites for VISUALS (images and video):
   • Pixabay (my fav),
   • Wikimedia Commons,
   • Pexels,
   • Unsplash,
   • Morguefile,
   • Openverse
     

ROYALTY FREE MEDIA

Visuals: Pixabay, Pexels, Unsplash, Morguefile

Music
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

Media Resources from Penn State
http://mediacommons.psu.edu/free-media-library/

OER Commons: Free Digital Library and Network of Educational Resources
https://www.oercommons.org/

Music
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

Speeches
https://archive.org/details/Greatest_Speeches_of_the_20th_Century

All Media, mostly Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Public Domain Image Websites
https://99designs.com/blog/resources/public-domain-image-resources/

Access some fabulous visual and audio media collections at the Library of Congress (some but not all are in the Public Domain) https://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html