Brief Description
Students will learn and demonstrate
how to obtain permission to use published photos and/or other documents
to incorporate into their own work.
Standards and Frameworks
Technology Standards
2T-E2. Exhibit legal
and ethical behaviors when using technology and information and discuss
consequences of misuse.
Academic Standards
1SS-E1. Understand
and apply the basic tools of historical research, including chronology
and how to collect, interpret, and employ information from historical materials.
PO 2. Identify primary and
secondary sources historians use to construct an understanding of the past,
using such sources as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, archaeological
evidence, maps, and government records.
Objectives
Academic
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Students will learn and demonstrate
how to obtain permission to use published photos and/or other documents
to incorporate into their own work.
Technological
Students will use a variety
of communication tools to obtain permission for legal use of published
photos into their own work (e.g., email, web site, telephone, snail mail),
and evaluate each for its efficiency.
Pre-Requisite Technology Skills
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Ability to use a telephone appropriately
to get information.
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Ability to use the Internet to
access information.
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Ability to use email to communicate
with businesses.
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Ability to compose a formal letter.
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Ability to use the Internet to
access information.
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Ability to create a web page.
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Understanding the ethics of using
published materials in one’s own work.
Materials
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A computer with Internet access
and an email account.
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A printer.
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A telephone.
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Stationary, envelopes.
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Students’ files of notes and photocopies
of documents (photographs, letters, newspaper articles, pages from diaries,
etc.) they have obtained through conducting primary and secondary research.
Accommodations for Special Needs
Pair technologically proficient
and experienced students with those who have special needs or with those
who are less able.
Procedures
Explain to students
that they are to create a class web page with links to their own student-generated
sites that include photos and information about historically-important
people or places as they were years ago, as well as, the same type of information
showing and describing what they are like today.
After reviewing the ethical
guidelines for using published materials in one’s own work, instruct the
students to identify the sources and authors of the material they have
in their files and make a plan for obtaining permission from the appropriate
source before they create their web-page links.
Assessment
Students’ success at attaining
permission from appropriate sources for using published materials in their
own work.
Teacher Name:
Diane Harland
Site:
Holaway
Date Submitted:
April 15, 2002