I really learned a lot about all of these subjects. I learned about the flexibility of the fair use law. I plan on using this law to my advantage in the classroom setting. If something as strong as copyrights are weakened to help education then I believe that it is our duties as educators to take advantage of this. Cyber bullying can be avoided. It is up to the teachers that are integrating technology into there classroom to teach the students proper netiquette before they use technology. Technology will be around the students even if it is not inside the classroom so I feel that if a student learns the proper netiquette, it will help him or her all through life.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Copyrights, Fair Use, Netiquette, and Cyberbullying
Before I read the guide and took the quiz on copyrights, I thought that fair use was more limited that what it really is. I did not know that fair use gave educators clearance to basically reproduce some copyrighted material and use it for educational purposes. There are many different things that teachers can do with copyrighted material due to section 107 of title 17 under the Copyright Act of 1976. I also learned about Netiquette today. Netiquette is the etiquette that one should posses while using the internet and interacting with others on social networks. There is a list of netiquette rules that people should follow on the Boston Public Library website stating things such as respect others online rights and be responsible online.If more people follow these rules there would be less cyber bullying and maybe it would not be a problem today.
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Great blog I as well learned some things that I didn't know, one being the proper Netiquette, I will be utilizing all of these subjects in my classroom.
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Awesome blog, I learned a lot of things through these policies that I wasn't aware of before. There are a lot of things that I will use in my classroom from the internet and I hope that I can teach my students the behavior and the awareness they need to use the internet. I agree, cyber bullying will never be totally gone, but it would be an awesome thing if we as future teachers can educate the students on what the consequences that can be prevented if they were aware of the safety procedures themselves.
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I had similar thoughts pertaining to the fair use act. I had no clue that educators could pretty much make a copy of a show and use it for educational purposes. I also found the netiquette rules to be linked to cyber bullying. If teachers and parents taught these rules to the children at the age they start using the web cyber bullying could potentially go down. I also agree with your point on netiquette being a tool that student can use for a life time. It is interesting to see many Facebook, twitter, Instagram and other social media users unaware of the netiquette rules. I feel that if people knew and followed these rules online bullying and harassment would come to an end all together.
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