Mary Finnocchiaro's Twelve Points

Let's get this poster on walls in classrooms.

You can find this poster along with a poster using lyrics by Coolio on my gmail Drive account.

Here is the link
reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson;

Copyright is a sticky issue.  There's "fair use" in an educational setting.  Well, this blog is my classroom and you are my audience.   I'm just sharing with you in an educational "fair use" way that promotes the ideas of Mary Finnocchiaro.  Her 12 points ought to be on walls in schools.

Here's a quote:

The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

This post brings to your attention the life and work of a notable teacher.  You can learn more here:

http://www.tesol.org/about-tesol/tesol-awards-grants/tesol-awards-for-excellence-service/the-mary-finocchiaro-award-for-excellence-in-nonpublished-pedagogical-materials