Friday, March 11, 2011
Maine Memory Network
As a history concentration I love this website! Last year I came across it while researching what certain parts of Maine were like during the Great Depression and New Deal. I took a Great Depression and New Deal class, and this website was so helpful. I was able to find out what the major crops were in Franklin county, and all the specific details of the Great Depression in specific parts of Maine. It made my research paper a lot easier! I would definitely recommend this website to my students if they were assigned a research paper specifically on the history of Maine.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Copyright and Fair use
I decided to take the quiz first and then see the answers to test my knowledge on copyright and fair use. I assumed that I knew pretty well what was "ok" and what was not "ok." After taking the quiz I realized that I did not have as much knowledge as I thought. The quiz was compiled of statements that you answer true or false to. When you go to the answer sheet, it says whether or not the statement was true or false, and then explains why this was true or false. I got many questions incorrect, so this quiz was full of suprises for me!
1. The eighth statement stated: "A student film buff downloads a new release from a Taiwanese Web site to use for a humanities project. As long as the student gives credit to the sites from which he's downloaded material, this is covered under fair use." This suprised me because I assumed that it was ok to use this downloaded release as long as there was a citation showing that this video did not belong to this student.
2. The eleventh statement stated: "A teacher videotapes a rerun of Frontier House, the PBS reality show that profiles three modern families living as homesteaders from the 1880s did. In class, students edit themselves "into" the frontier and make fun of the spoiled family from California. This is fair use." I thought for sure that this was not legal because the students are changing the orignial videotapes into something that was insulting to the original video. Along with that they were using a majority of the videotapes with just their own alterations here and there.
3. The fourteenth statement stated: "On Back-to-School night, an elementary school offers child care for students' younger siblings. They put the kids in the library and show them Disney VHS tapes bought by the PTA. This is permissible." The only reason this really caught my eye was because it happens so often that I thought for sure it was ok, and it isn't! Which brings my attention to how people are not aware of what is legal and illegal when dealing with copyright and fair use.
4. The fifteenth statement stated: "A teacher makes a compilation of movie clips from various VHS tapes to use in his classroom as lesson starters. This is covered under fair use." I considered this legal because the teacher was using vhs tapes that were his, if they were clips from online I could see how that would be illegal, but until the answer gave an explanation why this was not allowed, I did not understand.
5. The sixteenth statement stated: "At a local electronics show, a teacher buys a machine that defeats the copy protection on DVDs, CD-ROMs, and just about everything else. She lets her students use it so they can incorporate clips from rented DVDs into their film genre projects. This is fair use." This just sounded silly to me because I did not even know that this machine existed, but that is pretty interesting and useful!
6. The seventeenth statement stated: "A number of students take digital pictures of local streets and businesses for their Web projects. These are permissible to post online." I did not think it was ok because of the businesses, but otherwise I can see why this is all legal.
1. The eighth statement stated: "A student film buff downloads a new release from a Taiwanese Web site to use for a humanities project. As long as the student gives credit to the sites from which he's downloaded material, this is covered under fair use." This suprised me because I assumed that it was ok to use this downloaded release as long as there was a citation showing that this video did not belong to this student.
2. The eleventh statement stated: "A teacher videotapes a rerun of Frontier House, the PBS reality show that profiles three modern families living as homesteaders from the 1880s did. In class, students edit themselves "into" the frontier and make fun of the spoiled family from California. This is fair use." I thought for sure that this was not legal because the students are changing the orignial videotapes into something that was insulting to the original video. Along with that they were using a majority of the videotapes with just their own alterations here and there.
3. The fourteenth statement stated: "On Back-to-School night, an elementary school offers child care for students' younger siblings. They put the kids in the library and show them Disney VHS tapes bought by the PTA. This is permissible." The only reason this really caught my eye was because it happens so often that I thought for sure it was ok, and it isn't! Which brings my attention to how people are not aware of what is legal and illegal when dealing with copyright and fair use.
4. The fifteenth statement stated: "A teacher makes a compilation of movie clips from various VHS tapes to use in his classroom as lesson starters. This is covered under fair use." I considered this legal because the teacher was using vhs tapes that were his, if they were clips from online I could see how that would be illegal, but until the answer gave an explanation why this was not allowed, I did not understand.
5. The sixteenth statement stated: "At a local electronics show, a teacher buys a machine that defeats the copy protection on DVDs, CD-ROMs, and just about everything else. She lets her students use it so they can incorporate clips from rented DVDs into their film genre projects. This is fair use." This just sounded silly to me because I did not even know that this machine existed, but that is pretty interesting and useful!
6. The seventeenth statement stated: "A number of students take digital pictures of local streets and businesses for their Web projects. These are permissible to post online." I did not think it was ok because of the businesses, but otherwise I can see why this is all legal.
How to help someone use a computer
"How to help someone use a computer" is a very resourceful article that gives useful advice on how educators can help their students with their computers and/or laptops. One piece of advice stuck out to me more than others because I was able to relate to how this student may feel if this was to happen. It states "they might be afraid that you're going to blame them for the problem. When we first started using laptops in the classroom in seventh grade, if I asked this certain teacher a question because I was stuck, they would come over to my computer and say something along the lines of "well you should not have clicked that and you shoudld do it this way." When a teacher said something similar to this, it made me feel like I could not do anything myself, and that there was only one right way to go about performing the task on the laptop. I will definitely keep in mind that I should not blame them right out of the for a technical difficulty on their laptop. Another thing that I am going to "have to tell myself" is "your primary goal is not to solve their problem. HYour primary goal is to help them become one notch more capable of solving their problems on their own. So it's okay if they take notes." I have a habit of going to help someone and then just fixing it for them myself because I know exactly how to do it. For example, if my fourteen year old sister is at home on her laptop and needs help with a powerpoint presentation, she will ask me how to do something, and I will just quickly do it for her, assuming she caught everything that I just did. I need to remember to walk the student through exactly how to go about fixing the issue that they have. One important rule that really caught my attention was "tell them to really read the messages, such as errors, that the computer generates." I have a bad habit of seeing something pop up and either pressing ok, cancel or the x button. I need to emphasize how important it is to read the messages so you know exactly what you are saying ok, cancel or x button to, otherwise you could unintentionally temporarily mess up your laptop!
This article will be very useful when going about working on our group projects revolving around technology in the classroom. The article gives many useful facts that we can incorporate in our presentation by giving specific examples of different facts and advice that the article offered.
This article will be very useful when going about working on our group projects revolving around technology in the classroom. The article gives many useful facts that we can incorporate in our presentation by giving specific examples of different facts and advice that the article offered.
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