Storyboard - Copyright in the Classroom

1 Copyright for Student Use:  How to comply with the law.	2 Copyright in its basic definition is the protection of another persons creative work in writing, music, photography, art, or another form of an idea being recorded.	3 Copyright is confusing for learners to grasp.	4 Plagiarism is a copyright infringement where a student takes someone else's ideas, and claims them for his or her own.
5 Music is downloaded using file sharing services all the time.  Many artists such as Metallica, want their music protected.  They took Napster to court.  When the dust settled, Napster had to stops sharing their music.	6 Film is abused as well.  In many places, a showing of a movie on DVD can be interpreted as showing the film without the copyright holders permission.  In one school system, the faculty was banned from showing any portion of a Disney movie in their lessons.	7 What is a learner to do?  Being enrolled in a government, academic, or religious institution, these organizations have permission to use parts of the total work without permission from the copyright holder.	8 Fairuse is the policy that allows these institutions to use the material.  I like to call this the 10% rule.  In music, 10% can be used by these institutions without permission.  As an example, a 3 minute song can have up to 1.8 minutes of playtime.  This is the reason why music apps can play a small snippet of the song.
9 In literature, 10% can be used for less than 1000 words of text.  Any use over that amount, permission from the copyright holder must be granted.	10 As an example, my wife was presenting her materials at a literature conference.  While planning her presentation, one of the book's author refused to let her use a form published in the book she used in teaching.  She said it was a central part of her presentation.  She found a similar sheet whose author granted permission for her to use in the presentation.	11 When the Disney movie Mulan came out, marching band arrangements for the music were not completed.  I called Disney to see what I had to do.  The music librarian at the Orlando Disney complex told me that "Disney realizes that people use our materials all the time without permission."  I replied that I wanted to follow the law both ethically and as a  teaching tool for my students.  He gave me the phone number for Disney's copyright lawyers in California.  Within fifteen minutes, I had contracts with permission to arrange four songs for $50 each.	12 In writing, some of our more famous plagiarists are Vice President Joe Biden, and journalist Maureen Dowd. Both used someone else's creative work without permission.
13 In one of the Batman movies, a famous sculpture comes to life.  The artist to created the sculpture took the movie production company to court, as animating the sculpture without the artists permission altered the initial work.	14 With the web being more interactive, many authors and creative people are allowing people to use their materials through "Creative Commons" licensing.  The symbol lets others know how they can use the materials on a webpage for their own work.	15 Each symbol represents a different level of permission for their web content.  Clarification is given upfront for materials.	16 Obtaining permission from copyright holders has become very easy with the use of email.  Many responses come back within one hour.
17 Guidelines that help- If someone else creates it, you are buying their book, dvd, cd, or music track to read, watch or listen to.  You have bought the delivery method being used. If you create the work as a book, dcd, cd or music track, you control who gets to read, watch, or listen to your work. You control who the creative work works for you	18 Copyright is confusing for many people.  The easiest way to remember how to follow the law is this: If you create the creative work, you control it. If someone else creates the creative work, they control it

Collaborative Interaction

Collaborative interaction has evolved from working within face to face groups of people to online formats where people can collaborate virtually. Wikispaces offer a Web 2.0 experience of working with others using text, graphics, sound, and video from many different locations. Kanuka states that "philisophy inspires our activities and gives direction to our practices" (Anderson, 2012, p.93). While this format is constructivist in nature, the people working within this environment learn to work together. My own experiences working with learners creating wikispace pages taught the students that when they stopped fussing about their pages, they had reached consensus about the look, content, and graphics usage for their page. Learners who participate in this type of learning have to develop and use a scholarly voice versus their texting voice on their phones. It was interesting to watch my learners begin to use what we had completed together, and create their own wikipages with their own interests. With the advent of cloud computing, online collaboration has become mainstream. In Google docs, you can share, edit, and collaborate on the same document. In Windows Live, you are able to share documents, collaborate, and edit online with changes occurring to the original from each team member. Microsoft OneNote allows real time collaboration in the application using sharepoint. IBM has launched it's own version of cloud computing that allows online collaboration. Each of these tools allow teams of people to be creative and productive. Reference: Anderson, T., Theory and practice of online learning, Marquis Book Printing.

Collaborative Interaction in Educational Technology

Collaboration has become commonplace in the business environment. In order for people to work within the highly communicative and collaborative nature of working, learners must be able to work within both aspects their job. Computers are tools that people use in many positions now for communication and collaboration. In Heather Kanuka's work, she illustrates many of the positives of using online education which were "argument formation capabilities, increased written communication skills, complex problem solving abilities, and opportunities for reflective deliberation"(Kanuka, 2012). These skills are components of working collaboratively online. While communication is the first priority, effective communication and collaboration help teams of people accomplish tasks and projects. Reference: Anderson, T.(2008). Theory and practice of online education, Athabasca University, Edmonton, AB

Equivalent Distance Education

According to the authors of our readings this week, online education must take a different approach to offer an equivalent education. This learning goals, objectives and evaluations will be very similar to a face to face classroom, yet will not be able to deliver the same experience for the student, due to geography, time differences, and schedules that people have. Equivalent education is the ability to offer the content and learning of a classroom or course in an online environment. My father in law passed away this week, so please keep him in your thoughts as we go through the process of getting him buried.