The topic of copyright is a very important issue to discuss whether it is for the blog posts for this course or in the actual teaching process. At times throughout this course, the directions called for us to use non-copyrighted images for our videos. I appreciated that in our directions because it helped me find out how to find materials and images that are free from copyright that would be very useful to use. Despite having some experience during this course, I still need to learn about teachers and copyrighted materials because I want to be able to optimize the classroom by using materials, however, I do not want to get into any trouble while doing so.
In order to learn more, I used some resources from "Five-Minute Film Festival: Copyright and Fair Use for Educators." The first resource that I decided to use was "YouTube Copyright Basics." I was drawn to this resource mainly because of the title. During my student teaching experience, I tried to incorporate YouTube videos into my lectures to keep the students engaged and interested. After reading that title, I am curious to see if I had violated any copyrights while doing so. However, after watching the video, I quickly realized that simply showing any YouTube videos would not violate the copyright laws. Those laws mainly deal with creating the videos that go onto the site. The resource was actually pretty entertaining and could be used by people of all ages, even students. The copyright laws were explained by two puppets and the video used humor to explain the laws, thus making it more interesting. This technique took information that could be viewed as "boring" and really communicated it in a way that was explained simply and effectively. I would definitely recommend this video to those who want to learn more.
This can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp1Jn4Q0j6E&list=PLvzOwE5lWqhTbOCIFp_OxsN6nC-l20kMT&index=4
For the text resource from the list, I chose was "Teaching Copyright" which can be found on teaching copyright.org. I originally wanted to use a resource that discussed that told teachers about copyright laws and the materials that they use in their classrooms. Unfortunately, those links were broken, so instead, I picked the only other think with "teach" in the title since the YouTube video already gave me the basics of copyright laws. The basis of the site is not really completely applicable unless you are teaching copyright laws to your students, because it provides a curriculum for you to use to do so. However, there is a resources tab found on the site that can be helpful. As a visitor to the site, you can click on the links that would have been giving to the students, and learn about copyright that way. For example, they have copyright cases, videos, podcasts, and history information available. This is very important because as a teacher you want to be able to use resources in your classroom, however, at the same time, you do not want to take any credit from anyone else's work. This can be a subject you bring up to your students before you assign any projects or research papers to them.
This can be found at: https://www.teachingcopyright.org/about.html
Hi Tim,
ReplyDeleteDefinitely keeping some of the copyright and fair use guidelines in mind helped me with most of the projects for this class. I was definitely worried about using images from the internet so I chose to be brave and use some of my own paintings and personal photos for the 60sec video, which I even created my own book cover for "On My Honor" using one of my photos, the book covers for the Flirting with the Bully activity, and cropping activities. Even in my MMP I didn't use more that 5 photos from the photographer or painter to make sure I fell within the guidelines. There is so much information covered in the copyright and fairies guidelines, it is hard to remember. For the most part you are safe with showing videos with your students but when your students produce their own multimodal projects, post info to their own blogs or you post information on your blog using images and video from the internet; or you are copying pages of books/magazines/art work/articles you must be careful.
In one of the readings from last month, it discussed the Anime Music Videos (AMVs) where one can take hundreds of images from anime and splice them together with music to make AMVs, which have been flying under the radar for copyright and fair use infringements which I thought was interesting and I definitely want to try this out.
Good luck,
Shon