Reflection #8: Digital Story 2

WHAT?: This week in class we were learning about copyright. We learned about many tools in order to copyright our on work, many ways to find proper pictures to use for our digital story (without breaking copyright laws), and we learned about many things that have happened in copyright history.

SO WHAT?: I think that this lesson was so important because in all the projects that I have done in the past I have never realized that there are certain pictures or information that you can use and some that people copyright so you cannot use. A lot of this information is still getting used and many people are breaking these copyright laws. There are many projects in the future that I will be doing as a student, teacher, or colleague where I will need to know these laws and how to go about them without breaking them. As a teacher I will need to know how to teach them to my students so they know how to properly use information/pictures that they find on the Internet. Also, it helps me protect and copyright all my work.

NOW WHAT?: I think that this is one lesson that will be so important for me to be able to share with my students and teach them. I never realized that I was really breaking some of the copyright laws (oops) because honestly I had no idea that there was some information on the Internet that is allowed to be used and some that is not really suppose to be. I am glad that I can share my knowledge with them. I think in order for the students to be able to use their knowledge about these copyright laws in would be important for them to put together a project like a digital story. I think that lessons like these make me become a more knowledgeable teacher/colleague because this is a subject that I think so many people know about so it will be nice to be able to share it. Also, I loved learning the creative commons tool so I can help my students protect their work and copyright it (along with my own work.) Also, the digital citizenship was really awesome to learn more about to be able to have lesson plans on how to teach my students on this topic in fun, creative ways.