I am wiped! All day in a multi-media technology library course at Plymouth State U. which has a state of the art library. I am there to learn to produce and design materials for the classroom. BUT almost everything in the world is copyrighted. We all just choose to ignore most of it. That was today's lesson. We can take a photo and use it in our final multi-media projects. Or we can use like 3 pages of a book with sound overlays or we can compose our own music and use that. Google images... - copyrighted... and really shouldn't be used in the classroom. All songs, Youtube, shouldn't use. The public domain is almost nonexistent. Everyone should be reading the fine print, but no one does. So for this course as a teacher/librarian we have to follow the rules. All video on the Internet is basically off limits unless we get copyright permission. Many copyright clearinghouses have a membership fee so it is nearly impossible to get it. We'll be studying copyright more than production of materials. It's incredible. But I am zipping off to West Chester outside of Philadelphia for a family reunion right now. More on all of this later. Monday I will be visiting my old favorite school, Princeton Friends School. I'll tell you all about it.