EdTech 502 - Reflection Week 7

EdTech 502 - Internet for Educators

Semester: Fall 2014

Instructor:   Lora Evanouski

Reflection: Module 6 - Copyright and Fair Use

AECT Standards:

1.1.2b Create instructional plans that address the needs of all learners, including appropriate accommodations for learners with special needs.

1.1.2d Incorporate contemporary instructional technology processes in the development of interactive lessons that promote student learning.

1.1.3b Demonstrate personal skill development with at least one: computer authoring application, video tool, or electronic communication application.

1.3.b Identify at least one instructional model and demonstrate appropriate contextualized application within practice and field experience.

1.4.b Describe and/or document specific learner characteristics which influence the selection of instructional strategies.

2.3.2 Design, produce, and use digital information with computer-based technologies.

2.4.1 Use authoring tools to create effective hypermedia/multimedia instructional materials or products.

2.4.2 Develop and prepare instructional materials and products for various distance education delivery technologies.

2.4.4 Use telecommunications tools such as electronic mail and browsing tools for the World Wide Web to develop instructional and professional products.

2.4.5 Develop effective Web pages with appropriate links using various technological tools (e.g., print technologies, imaging technologies, and video).

Module 6 reflection - Copyright and Fair Use

This week was great.  I really started to learn and understand the things we have been working on on our websites.  I worked a lot this week on margins, padding, boxes and borders.  I now understand the difference between all of them and their importance to the development of new websites.  I also started to understand more about links and tags such as hover, focus, active, visited and linked.  

We learned about “copyright” and “fair use” this week.  I was one of the teachers under the impression that if the information was for educational purposes, it was allowed.  I was wrong.  This is so important.  I also learned that Canada has a different view of “fair use”.  Canada -  and most Commonweatlh countries use something called “fair dealing”.  It is similar but does not go as far as the “fair use” law does in the US.

I feel that this week’s assignment was essential for me.  I will use what was learned from this assignment in my future roles in our school board.  The knowledge learned this week will let me help students and staff to understand the value of copyright and the use of “fair dealing in the classroom”.