4.2 Safe, Healthy, Legal & Ethical Use
Candidates model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies. (PSC 4.2/ISTE 5b)
Standard 4.2 Reflection: Safe, Healthy & Ethical Use
The copyright and fair use presentation was created for the Multimedia and Web Design course. The purpose of the assignment was to conduct Internet research on copyright, fair use and creative commons licensing and focus on a specific area. Findings were documented in a PowerPoint presentation which provided three real world scenarios intended to generate discussion among the target audience of fellow teachers. The focus of the PowerPoint was on images and knowing the appropriate usage rights. This was intentional as many of my colleagues give little thought to protected works when it comes to both creating interactive whiteboard notebooks as well as content for the popular teacher’s lesson selling forum, Teachers Pay Teachers.
The copyright and fair use presentation artifact demonstrates my abilities to model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies. Ironically, it wasn’t even a full two months before I had to call upon my research findings and use them to curtail an unintentional breach of copyright on the part of the first grade team members. I used my copyright presentation and the Tech & Learning Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines chart to facilitate a conversation with co-workers on appropriate usages of videos and streaming media. More specifically, I used my research to aid my Media Specialist during a grade level meeting. She was able to cite the resources to squelch the copyright issue. Our first grade team needed clarification as to whether or not a “digital copy” could be housed on network access storage for team members to access for an afternoon activity. My research and presentation directly helped my Media Specialist put a stop to a possible copyright violation. This has since curtailed any other attempts to use a “digital copy” in that capacity. For these reasons, I feel the artifact directly and positively impacted the school.
Accompanying the copyright and fair use presentation artifact is the Internet Safety Blog Post that was created for the Internet Tools in the Classroom course. The purpose of the assignment was to describe three or more strategies for keeping students safe on the Internet and synthesize findings on the important aspects of Internet safety. For these reasons, I feel the Internet Safety Blog post directly represents my abilities to model and facilitate the safe uses of digital information and technologies. Topics outlined in the post address removing unwanted advertising, kid safe search engines, and using global resources on Internet safety.
In retrospect, I would have focused my copyright and fair use presentation more on streaming media and also digital copy considerations because of the frequency of their use. While my teachers do use images quite frequently when they are designing interactive whiteboard notebooks, they also use streaming media quite frequently in their instruction. Had I done it differently, I would have chosen those as the focal points of my research. However, overall I learned a great deal about copyright, fair use, and creative commons that I had not known previously. Additionally, the Internet Safety Blog post and the research that went into producing it were great learning experiences that expanded my pedagogy. My regret with that is that I would at some point like to create a full sixty-minute professional learning session for teachers focusing on Internet Safety.
The learning involved in creating the copyright and fair use presentation and Internet Safety Blog post positively affected my knowledge, skills, and dispositions as an Instructional Technology Coach. It is crucial that ITCs are well versed in the nuances of Internet Safety, copyright law, fair use, and creative commons licensing because these issues are inherently part of the fabric of the medium with which we work. The conducted research taught me a great deal about the many considerations one must make when using media in an educational setting. For these reasons, I feel the copyright presentation demonstrates my mastery of the Safe, Healthy & Ethical Use standard. The impact of this artifact is evident in the expanded pedagogy regarding copyright that my colleague’s and I now possess.
The copyright and fair use presentation was created for the Multimedia and Web Design course. The purpose of the assignment was to conduct Internet research on copyright, fair use and creative commons licensing and focus on a specific area. Findings were documented in a PowerPoint presentation which provided three real world scenarios intended to generate discussion among the target audience of fellow teachers. The focus of the PowerPoint was on images and knowing the appropriate usage rights. This was intentional as many of my colleagues give little thought to protected works when it comes to both creating interactive whiteboard notebooks as well as content for the popular teacher’s lesson selling forum, Teachers Pay Teachers.
The copyright and fair use presentation artifact demonstrates my abilities to model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies. Ironically, it wasn’t even a full two months before I had to call upon my research findings and use them to curtail an unintentional breach of copyright on the part of the first grade team members. I used my copyright presentation and the Tech & Learning Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines chart to facilitate a conversation with co-workers on appropriate usages of videos and streaming media. More specifically, I used my research to aid my Media Specialist during a grade level meeting. She was able to cite the resources to squelch the copyright issue. Our first grade team needed clarification as to whether or not a “digital copy” could be housed on network access storage for team members to access for an afternoon activity. My research and presentation directly helped my Media Specialist put a stop to a possible copyright violation. This has since curtailed any other attempts to use a “digital copy” in that capacity. For these reasons, I feel the artifact directly and positively impacted the school.
Accompanying the copyright and fair use presentation artifact is the Internet Safety Blog Post that was created for the Internet Tools in the Classroom course. The purpose of the assignment was to describe three or more strategies for keeping students safe on the Internet and synthesize findings on the important aspects of Internet safety. For these reasons, I feel the Internet Safety Blog post directly represents my abilities to model and facilitate the safe uses of digital information and technologies. Topics outlined in the post address removing unwanted advertising, kid safe search engines, and using global resources on Internet safety.
In retrospect, I would have focused my copyright and fair use presentation more on streaming media and also digital copy considerations because of the frequency of their use. While my teachers do use images quite frequently when they are designing interactive whiteboard notebooks, they also use streaming media quite frequently in their instruction. Had I done it differently, I would have chosen those as the focal points of my research. However, overall I learned a great deal about copyright, fair use, and creative commons that I had not known previously. Additionally, the Internet Safety Blog post and the research that went into producing it were great learning experiences that expanded my pedagogy. My regret with that is that I would at some point like to create a full sixty-minute professional learning session for teachers focusing on Internet Safety.
The learning involved in creating the copyright and fair use presentation and Internet Safety Blog post positively affected my knowledge, skills, and dispositions as an Instructional Technology Coach. It is crucial that ITCs are well versed in the nuances of Internet Safety, copyright law, fair use, and creative commons licensing because these issues are inherently part of the fabric of the medium with which we work. The conducted research taught me a great deal about the many considerations one must make when using media in an educational setting. For these reasons, I feel the copyright presentation demonstrates my mastery of the Safe, Healthy & Ethical Use standard. The impact of this artifact is evident in the expanded pedagogy regarding copyright that my colleague’s and I now possess.