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Monday, October 6, 2008

Organizations Supporting IF

Online Links to Organizations
Supporting Intellectual Freedom

Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/

Electronic Freedom Foundation
http://www.eff.org/

First Amendment Center
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/

Free Expression Policy Project
Project for the Brennan Center for Justice of the NYU School of Law
http://www.fepproject.org/index.html

Free Expression Network Clearing House
http://www.freeexpression.org/

Freedom Forum
http://www.freedomforum.org/

Knight Foundation
First Amendment Teaching Resources (Journalism Emphasis)
http://www.teachfirstamendment.org/

National Council of Teachers of English
Position Papers on Censorship and Intellectual Freedom
http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/cens

National Coalition Against Censorship
http://www.ncac.org/home.cfm

People for the American Way
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/

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What I've Learned

This online resource fulfills a requirement for the LIS 645, Intellectual Freedom, course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies. As noted above on the page, it is intended as a user-friendly, quick resource for teachers and students approaching First Amendment issues in the school setting. In creating the resource, I have learned the following: ** A blog format is intended more for interactive dialogue than for information delivery and archiving. There are significant limits to this product's format options that make for interesting organizing of information. ** Formatting the blog is a challenge -- yet a fun one! ** It is possible to provide too much information to one's audience, thus overwhelming them with data.

Most importantly in my development of this project, I have learned that even having the best resources and knowledge is not enough. Sadly, a classroom teacher can theoretically support full First Amendment rights for her students, but she must still abide by the community standards of classroom "propriety" or risk becoming embroiled in an energy and faith-depleting argument over the limits to intellectual freedoms in the public schools. She could have a statement of reprimand in her file, lose funding for any special programs she coordinates, or even lose her job (with allocation cuts needing no clear explanations).

Thank you to all who have informed this page: my high school students, colleagues, fellow graduate students and professors at the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies, and authors of all resources included in this online resource. If there are glaring errors in content or citations, please let me know. I will make changes as needed.

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