Fair Use Friday Collages

After spending time before break learning to cite sources, students revisited the topic of giving credit by discussing the concept of fair use -- which means that there are certain cases (like education, parodies, criticisms, commentaries, and news reports) where people are allowed to use copyrighted material without receiving permission, though they should still give credit. In case you have any questions, check out these parent tips sheets about copyright, fair use, and piracy.

Digital Piracy
Respecting Creative Work

Students took time today to practice transforming pictures into new purposes, like we do when we use written information. Their challenge was to find pictures from magazines/newspapers and rework them. There were some pretty great results!

Each class voted on the student who changed their pictures the most. This was a seventh-grade winner.

 

We had lots of men and women and animals with different heads and bodies today! Lots of funny switches. :)

I had lots of students use only the colors/shapes of certain pictures to completely change the content. 

Some students chose to create new scenes from the pictures they found.

 

Many of the students made some great products!