Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Week 9

This week we continued working on our key assignment for our portfolio and learned about Creative Commons.  We are making a video that we can use for instruction in our classrooms and creative commons allows up to copyright our work.

This project will benefit me as a teacher to have media materials.  However, in creating media materials I need to be aware of copyright laws.  As we have been learning about obtaining permissions and finding out where to obtain "free" information I realized how much stuff is out on the internet illegally.  These videos are a great resource for our students and a quick, yet different way to get them the information they need but it is important to make sure that we are getting the proper authorization for the material. 

I want to make learning enjoyable.  This technology will enhance my teaching and make me a better educator because I am able to teach in a way that relates to me students.  Students enjoy technology and any way that I can incorporate it into the classroom will be beneficial to them.  It will also be beneficial to me because I am keeping up with technology and taking advantage of what it has to offer but doing so legally.  The last thing I want is to get in trouble with the law.  Not only for the complications for me but also the poor example it will set for me students.

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