Copyright and issues in educational technology resource goes hand in hand. There are more online classes that require students to create interactive content. If you are going to create content and use music or video in your assignment you have to be familiar with copyright and intellectual property rights. It is great to know that in the classroom we may receive special consideration under the fair use doctrine.
Knowing that there is special consideration I will be somewhat at ease when applying copyright laws and the code of best practice in fair use. In Telecommunication College we have to create a lot of content. Many of the courses in this major call for video and written creation. It is very important that you use attribution to what you have created properly giving credit to the original creator. I will have to make sure that I do not obtain things illegally or in bad faith.
The material in this week assignment was very informative. The technology that is available to us today at the Go2Web20 directory of Web 2.0 applications. The web 2.0 companies that I chose to review were Socialwok; they help organizations improve collaboration and communication. Vanityvid allows you to have video profile picture shows on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Wibbitz allows its users to take static web content like images, and turn them into interactive video. I truly liked the “What is Copyright” and “User’s Rights, Section 107” videos. That was either very creative or someone had too much time on their hand. I would like to believe it was very creative. It is not easy to write a song and to take a law and make them into a song that is pretty cool. I learned in the Copyright PDF that the preferred way to register a basic copyright is to complete it online. The “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education” places my mind at ease. To know that I do have some rights when it comes to using other people creation I don’t always have to pay to use it. The articles were a little long but as a Telecommunication Production student it was something I need to learn.
The source that I chose started with a young man singing a parity of a Beastie Boys song about copyright. The video discuss using www.myfreecopyright.com to register you original content and you want to protect it and receive credit for your creation. The video talks about someone that had registered with the above site was able to shut down someone that later open a site with the same content after he did, because he had registered his content on my free copyright website.
The issues in Educational Technology give a good understanding of the things that teachers are dealing with. I always heard many complain about NCLB, saying that they are passing children who are not doing well in school. It was good to see the four reform principles the law is based on. The National Ed. Tech. Plan and Teacher Preparation/Training, where teachers continued education is important in our classroom. I do wonder if this access to online learning course is free. I’m not certain that the digital divide can ever be closed. Technology is big business and as much as some of these companies offer free software to schools or computers, it is still not in ever home.
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