COPYRIGHT

I believe that most people who violate copyright laws do it because of plain ignorance. As teachers, we need to learn more about our copyrights and how to respect them. Copyright & Fair Use Guidelines is a complete teacher web guide about copyrights. It gives us a lot of information about the do’s and don’ts of Copyright and Fair use for teachers. Although I found a little difficult some of the explanations, like the Fair use chart.

On the other hand, I have enjoyed the trip on the “Shakedown Cruise” at the link A Visit to Copyright Bay. This link was created to promote interaction and learning. It helped me understand copyright laws and fair uses. through a lot of examples; like the various cases that covered different copyright issues. It was a fun learning experience. Stanford University Libraries: Copyright & Fair Use also offers more information about copyright and a list of related links that we can visit to learn even more on various copyright topics.

Keeping it Legal, this link presents how important it is to know how to protect your content and “keep it legal”. A helpful detail presented was about publishing student’s work. I didn’t know that we have to get approval from the student and the family to publish any students’ work. As teachers, we always love to publish all the work of our students, but we have to be careful doing it. With all this information in hand, I will certainly be better equipped to defend my work in the future.