Spring Cleaning: Intellectual Property

Paul Beaufait — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:30:22 +0000

Spring office cleaning and a computer change-over are leading to a host of re-discoveries, reflections, retrievals, and restorations. Many old sticky notes, some not originally yellow, have surfaced from the sea of dust accumulated over years of good intentions. This reflection is about copyright, stemming on a final tiny, dog-eared leaf from an old sticky pad about EdTechTalk#25 (2005.11.13).

A suggestion I jotted down when I first encountered that chat reads, “Teach Ss to copyright [their] own stuff.” The note on the back of that tiny leaf suggests, “[T]eachers need not be techies” (no date).

As I searched to retrieve a reference to substantiate the stimulus for those brief notes, I discovered a recent, yet related comment in the EdTechTalk blog sidebar entitled Teaching about Copyright and Fair Use (Renee Hobbs, on Teachers Teaching Teachers #135, 2009.03.02).

Renee points out two more links to explore: one for educators interested in exploring fair use, and the other to videos introducing intellectual property rights issues to educators and learners:

Code of Best Practices … (Temple University, School of Communication and Theater, 2008.11.00), and
Music Videos Help … (Temple University, School of Communication and Theater, 2009.05.23).

When will teachers learn?

Paul Beaufait — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:38:45 +0000

Thanks to Isabelle Jones for pointing out this thought-provoking video by josepicardo (2008.02.28) to the Diigo Resources for Languages Group.

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Spring Cleaning: Intellectual Property

When will teachers learn?