Project Catch-up
17 years ago
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Digital Citizenship Takeaways
I think for me the biggest take away from Tuesday night's class was the information on copyright. It's amazing to think about how little I knew about copyright issues. I'm certain that copyrights are violated many thousands of times a day. It is very easy to grab images off the web and use them. It's really too easy, but that is the world in which we live. This makes me wonder about the integrity of some undergraduates these days. They are probably ignorant of the issues just as I was and probably still are to some degree.
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Hi, Roman,
I thought that the presentations on copyrights and media piracy were very informative as well. There is so much information out there which is easily accessible and readily available that it can very confusing trying to determine if and under what circumstances that it is legal to use it.
As far as trying to police the Internet and hold students to ethical standards, well, that will continue to become increasingly difficult and I'm not sure how the issue can be effectively addressed or even if it can realistically be dealt with other then just trying to keep students informed. I'm pretty sure that dishonestly is rampant in many educational institutions and probably always has been. Technology has just made plagiarism a little less complicated for individuals who are going to cheat, regardless.
Interesting topic!
TTYL,
Lenrose
As media specialist, I am the copyright contact person for my school. The internet has made the issue much more complicated in terms of information and graphics being so easily accessible AND the ability to post student work to the web. What we might consider educational fair use for "in house" presentations etc. might change if the students or the teacher are posting student work to the web. This is something I need updating on! I wish we had been able to hear all presentations that night. I need to go back and look at the ones I couldn't go to. Lisa
Roman,
I agree with you about taking away a lot from the copyright presentation. I think may people forget (and in some cases, conveniently forget) that this is someone else's work... someone else's time and energy... that was put into creating what is on the web. Without their permission to use it, it really is like stealing. Your comment about undergraduate students is so true. I'm sure if the Internet existed in it's current form when I was at Iowa State getting my BS (1993-98), several people I knew would have jumped at the chance, even though it's wrong. It gives us all something to think about, that's for sure.
Mark
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