Copyright, Fair Use & Online Safety

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This week’s lesson was extremely informative. I learned a lot about what a teacher is allowed to use in her lessons and what she is not allowed to use. I find it interesting that we will not be able to use a videotaped new cast from more than 10 days ago. However, this lesson has left me with a serious question. I don’t understand where we would get the information we need in order to ask for permission.  Also, the teacher said in class that the school is not allowed to show a movie in that cafeteria unless they pay for the right to show it. I assume that any material in the school library has the required permission to be shown anywhere in that school.  

 Honestly, I think that the 10 day rule is a little silly but I understand that it is because the teacher then would have had enough time to ask for permission (although I’m still confused as to who the permission would come from). From what I understand a teacher can use any last minute information that she finds to supplement her lesson but she cannot use something if she has had a reasonable amount of time to ask for permission to use it. My feeling on this is that it seems impossible to regulate. This law is definitely a good faith law. It is assumed that as teachers we make the right decision and either asks for permission to use copyrighted material if we have had ample time to do so before she uses it or not use copyrighted materials. Using copyrighted material in the right way is more of an ethical responsibility and that as teachers we should teach our students how to use materials properly and not “steel” information.

The following video is very informative. It answered a lot of my original questions. Since so much of the supplemental material that is used in classrooms in multimedia, this video makes it less scary to find what you need and use it.

Additional information:

"Copyright for Educators" at http://www.copyrighteducation.org/ hosted by KOCE-TV. You can find series youtube video clips at YouTube.com

Below is a video clip of "Copyright for Educators (Multimedia Guidelines)"

Week four assigment

This week we learned about a few different websites that give you information on all other specific websites. Before this week’s assignment, I would go to google.com and type in whatever I was searching for. After typing something such as easy kid crafts, I would get a list of websites that I could choose from to visit. This list has a title and a brief description of how this website relates to my search. After visiting a website I could easily leave it and go back to my original google search page and visit another website if I want. I could do this over and over again until I find the website that gave me the best craft. I find this to be a relatively easy and quick way to find what I need.

The assignment was to go to certain websites such as altavista.com, easywhois.com, and archive.org and simply play around with them and see how they would be useful. Originally I thought that this assignment would help me find the information I wanted to find easier on the web, however, I found that these web sites were not really meant to assist in the search for information. What they are helpful for is to find out how reputable the site actually is. I don’t think that I will be using any of these sites on my daily searches at all. As a future teacher however, this assignment will be very important. It will help me ensure that when I send my students to the web for any kind of assignment, that I am sending them to a reputable website.

After doing this week’s assignment I have found that this assignment was not at all what I originally thought it was. This assignment was not to help me find information easier. This assignment is to help me as a future teacher to direct my students to the appropriate web sites. It’s important to know who owns the sites you visit because that tells you if the site is in fact to the place you are searching. I think archive.org was by far the most interesting one of all three. It shows the history of the web site, including how many people have logged on to the specific web site since as far back as 1996. This is a good tool to have when doing research on a certain topic for school. It really gives you a better idea of maybe an event that took place in the recent history, such as the stock market crash.

Introduction

Hello, my name is Angeline Bower. I am an older student with children of my own. My oldest is in sixth grade and I have seen firsthand how technology use and expectations have changed in schools since I was in sixth grade. I think that most of my classmates are in that generation y category, where I fall at the end of the generation x. I really don’t feel like I’m behind on technology at this point in my life. However, when I consider my two younger children, that’s a far different story; they are in first and second grade and things have certainly changed since I was in first grade. When I was in first grade I had not even heard of a computer but they are able to navigate the web better than I did in my early twenties. It truly amazes me.

I think teaching technology in school is one of the most important things. It is, after all, our future. I can’t think of a career that does not have a use for technology. Technology is all around us and will continue to grow through the years. It makes research and essay writing so much easier than in the past. Imagine a day when to type a paper you had to use a typewriter. You basically had to type it perfect. Not like today on the computer where you can manipulate entire paragraphs and move words and spaces around just because it looks better this way or that way. At ForneyISD they assign a laptop to every student and teacher. That ensures that every student has the benefit of getting the most out of today’s technologies. I think that that is the future of learning. I think that schools should make technology accessible to all students.

In general, my goal for all my classes is to get A’s so that I can keep my scholarship and continue to further my education. I’m actually quite excited to be taking this class. I like technology and am definitely one that thinks technology is our friend. It makes life easier and I look forward to learning ways to implement technology into my future classroom. My life is filled with responsibilities and I intend to give it my all and continue to strive for excellence in life for the benefit of my future and my family’s future.