Again I call out to the more experienced Coetailers… I found this image on Wikipedia and I’ve linked the book to the Wikipedia page. There is a bunch of Creative Commons information on the Wikipedia page, but I don’t understand if this means that I can use the picture too. I want to use it in a Voice Thread. Next week is Book Week and I would like to create a simple VoiceThread Book Review with my students comments about Al Capone Does My Shirts. How does one legally use an image of a book’s cover? **After Jeff’s comments I have now linked the book’s pic and the title to Amazon.com. 
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I have been riveted by the recent blogs of my fellow Coetailers over the last few days. From the woman with the friend who is still dealing with a Digital Shadow to the Coetailer who experienced a complete lack of respect for her family’s privacy. When I look at the diagram above, I am overwhelmed by the tasks ahead of me: primarily, to attempt to create only a positive digital footprint for myself and secondarily, to guide my students toward this digital world knowing that they still have a long haul toward maturity. Regarding my personal privacy, my immature days during the 80s were quite benign. If you look at my FaceBook, my name is now attached to heaps of pictures posted by my high school friends and yes I wore my bangs too high and my nails too long. That was my crime! I was the girl in the group with the nickname IB (Intellectual Britt) because my concern was for my grades and I opted out of the Happy Camper drinking parties, so instead of being the girl holding the beer I was the girl holding the books. But, what if I had opted in? What if I had deep regrets for my high school days? The fact that photos from the mid-80s have been scanned and posted to FaceBook is a testament to our flawed nature as humans. That was the past; that was long ago. Do we have a right to post photos to the world of other people who we once knew in another life? I have not once thought to pull out a box of old photos and start scanning (yes pre-digital era) and posting them to FaceBook. But, that is what people do. I will never post pictures of other people unless I am asked to post them. And, I am so grateful that I stumbled into this Coetail program and that I now have the opportunity to understand Creative Commons. Now, I need to pay it forward and do what I can to share the true power of the our digitally connected world with my students. While avoiding lectures, somehow I need to say “Do not be Michael Phelps!” Do not do anything that you might regret in front of a camera. Do use the web wisely and do create a positive digital footprint. I really like all the banter about teaching kids how to use the web to do good. I recently watched the movie Machine Gun Preacher and then went to learn more about Sam Childers. What a way to use our connectivity for good: I’ll let you check it out for yourself. The more we get our students involved in creating a positive digital footprint, perhaps the less likely they’ll have time for mistakes.
Help students build positive digital footprints. Whether they’re working to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur—a project that George Mayo’s students tackled (http://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com)—or doing a good deed every day for a month and sharing about it online—an initiative that 10-year-old Laura Stockman started to honor her grandfather’s life (http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com)—today’s teens and tweens can come together electronically to learn about and act on issues that matter. (from Positive Digital Footprints by William M. Ferriter)In closing, for those of us who have had a privacy incident gone bad, we all know that we’ve all done things that we regret  and we all need to be extremely understanding and forgiving to people who have grown up in the digital age with no understanding of the power of connectivity.
