Thing 8: Copyright and Creative Commons

I gave my students the Copyright quiz I created last week Tuesday.  It was a paper and pen quiz because we didn't have access to computers.  This afternoon I uploaded the quiz questions to Google Docs so you can look at them if you wish. I have two small classes, but the number of kids didn't matter. Most followed the video fine, but did poorly on the quiz.  As a media specialist as well as a classroom teacher, I thought I had done some solid work on teaching kids something valuable about copyright.  Well, the quiz demonstrated that I hadn't done such a good job. After we saw the video and took the quiz, we had class discussions about what main points were made and the questions they asked were astonishing.  They do truly believe they have a right to copy pretty much anything they want and use as much of it as they want for as long as they want.  This summer I will have to use the sites for this lesson to build a much more useful set tools and lessons for me and our teachers to use in the classroom.

I have copyrighted my AP World website using the Creative Commons tools and below is a picture of the welcome page with the copyright notification. What I haven't quite figured out yet, is how to change the html snippet to change the font and size of the type for the text.