Sunday, October 18, 2009
Copyright
When using technology in the classroom I think copyright would be a huge issue. First of all, if you are displaying your students work online in some type of portfolio or a class website or anything like that you want to make sure their work cannot be taken and reproduced for reasons other then intended. Also you need to make sure your students understand the rules and regulations of copyright because if they are creating their own website or blog or portfolio or anything like that they need to make sure that things they are posting to these various online pages are in line with copyright regulations and that they are using the images, movies, video clips ect. for the authors intended purpose. As a teacher you need to make sure that anything you post online is copyrighted so others cannot take credit for your ideas or something you did, which would fall under that category of ownership of student and faculty works. When you are making a website or creating a blog or anything like that you probably don't think much about copyright or the various copyright laws and how they could effect you or your work, but since displaying work and creating webpages/blogs/wikis/portfolios ect online is going to becoming more and more prevelant as time goes on it is important to familiarize yourself as an educator with these issues as well as familiarize your students with them if they are going to be using this online technology.
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Samantha
ReplyDeleteI liked your point about protecting your students. I never thought about their work being used without permission, especially in ways that are unintended. I only thought of protecting my students in the way of making sure they do not get into trouble for using the work of someone else. Another thing you mentioned was our websites being our own, ownership. I never thought of my e-portfolio being mine and people steeling information from me off of it. I guess I always thought of copyrights as something you "file" for not just being protected because it is my own creation. I agree with you about needing to familiarize yourself with the issues as an educator. The only thing is, how? Sometimes just citing the source is not enough. When that is the case do we just not use that particular piece of information or what is the proper protocol then?