In this free, hands-on course you will
- Make sense of copyright law, public domain, Creative Commons and fair use when you or your students use media
- Consider if, when and how to use GenAI created media in your instruction
- Discover where to find openly licensed media to use in media making
- Learn how to provide proper credit attribution
Who Should Take This Course
K-12 educators in all subject areas who want to develop skills and confidence with media making and media literacy.
Course Features
Learn online at your own pace with step-by-step videos and hands-on activities. Join live events with instructors and peers. It’s completely free!
Certificate of Completion
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Learning Objectives
Understand how to navigate copyright in the classroom by learning the essentials of the law and the alternatives to choose from, including:
- Finding openly licensed media in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses
- Distinguishing the different criteria for reuse and remixing as determined by the various types of Creative Commons licenses
- Giving proper attribution when using work created by someone else or by GenAI
Example Curriculum
Acknowledgement Statement about Use of GenAI
We acknowledge the use of ChatGPT to:
- Conduct research into the relationship of GenAI and copyright
- Review the content of this course
- Generate specific media, which has been cited accordingly
Examples of prompts used:
- Find recent articles and reports on the relationship between GenAI and copyright / intellectual property
- Review the content of this course for accuracy and relevance, and make recommendations about what might need to be revised or removed as no longer relevant or current.
- Generate an image of a chinchilla and a marmoset playing pickle ball
- Suggest 10 titles for this course that would be understandable and engaging for a K-12 educator audience
The output from these prompts was used in the drafting of text for this course and inclusion of specific media.
Your Instructors
We support educators in integrating video storytelling, audio podcasts and other media literacy skills into their teaching practice.
Angel Valerio
Angel was KQED’s program manager for STEM professional learning. Previous to this role she worked in South Los Angeles and East Oakland for 8 years as a high school life science teacher and instructional coach. She is passionate about the intersection of science, social justice, and uplifting youth voice.
Rachel Roberson
Rachel is KQED’s program manager for humanities professional learning. Previously, she was an English and social studies classroom teacher and teacher leader in San Francisco, Oakland, Austin and internationally. Before becoming a teacher, she was a newspaper reporter in the Bay Area.
Rik Panganiban
Rik Panganiban was the Manager of Online Learning at KQED. He supports educators’ professional growth through KQED Teach, an online learning platform with more than 10K registered users. Previously, Rik served as the Senior Manager of Digital Learning at the California Academy of Sciences.
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About KQED
KQED is a nonprofit, public media station and NPR and PBS member station based in San Francisco that offers award-winning education resources and services free to educators nationwide. KQED Teach is a collection of professional development courses that empower educators to teach media literacy, make media for the classroom and lead media-making projects with students in K-12.
All course content unless otherwise noted is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license excludes all user generated content unless explicitly labeled for reuse by the user. Permission to reuse user generated content should be directed to the individual creator.
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