Ideas for workshops

Tips and ideas for project work

Copyright issues often come up in relation to different projects. Students might wonder if they can use an image in their own work, where to find background music for a video, how to credit creators and sources, or what rights they have themselves.

To facilitate project work, Copyright Classroom offers checklists, guidelines, and models for source referencing, as well as information on how to use different types of material, such as images or music, in their own work. Before or during a project, you can also learn about copyright with the help of Copyright Classroom’s games and resources.

Copyright Classroom provides guidelines with tips and ideas for a variety of projects. All guidelines include links to Copyright Classroom’s copyright materials and ideas on how to learn about copyright in connection with a project.

Book trailer

Specialist librarian Marjukka Peltonen has compiled guidelines for creating a book trailer – a short video that gives a tempting taste of a book. The book trailer project can be done in the school itself or in collaboration with a library and can also be combined with book clubs. Children’s Books Ireland have guidelines and other resources for teachers, librarians and other facilitators of reading clubs.

Book trailer project

International eTwinning cultural project

Class teacher and eTwinning ambassador Sari Auramo has compiled a model with ideas for an international project, which focuses on the art, music, and literature of different countries. Irish students can research their own culture to present to an overseas partner school and then learn about the culture of that school’s country.

Cultural project

Comic book project

The guidelines for undertaking a comic book project include ideas and tips on how to develop stories and present these in graphic form.

Comic book project

Mini-play or mini-film

The guidelines for the mini-play or mini-film include ideas and tips for scenarios and characters. Use the play creator or access the printable cards.

Mini-play or mini-film project

The guidelines also include links to Copyright Classroom’s copyright information.