I'm excited and privileged to share the next year with your sons and daughters. Thank you for viewing my first blog post. We will be using this for classroom communication rather than sending notes home in backpacks, with the exception of permission slips that need a signature. I will send an e-mail with a link to let you know when there is a new post. I will occasionally have students post work on this blog as well. View from our classroom window This first post is a reminder of copy right law and how that affects student work. Copy right law protects "original works of authorship," whether published or unpublished. It includes original works such as: literary, dramatic, artistic, and musical. In other words, if you didn’t think it up yourself,you must give credit or it is plagiarism. Fair Use laws are closely related to the First Amendment, and they protect the right to free speech. Fair Use laws allow bits of copyrighted material...