Reflection Piece Copyright
This is a big and important issue for me. I really teach this strongly to my students, including teaching my students to cite all their work correctly. This is not the case for many elementary teachers. I have had several confrontations with teachers who feel that their just young kids and don't need to worry about it. As a musician and artist, I try and be careful of how I do cover songs. If we use them on a CD, we must pay a fee for every 100 we sell. That is becoming a bit more confusing now as artists publish their own music and no record company is involved. I am sure there are times I have broken copyright and fair use laws though. I try and keep up with the laws surrounding the issues though. We have permission from several groups to use their music when ever we wish.
Probably a bigger issue is when students create slide shows and other media in my classroom.
As I said, I try very hard to make sure they cite the source, but even that doesn't always cover the issue of fair use. It can be frustrating some times because it is so easy for students to just copy and paste things that they get confused as to why anyone would care. This includes copying large chunks of information as they research. There is also the "everyone is doing it" mentality, or the "I won't get caught" way of thinking. I even am often tempted as I put together lessons that I will show on the board.
This is a big and important issue for me. I really teach this strongly to my students, including teaching my students to cite all their work correctly. This is not the case for many elementary teachers. I have had several confrontations with teachers who feel that their just young kids and don't need to worry about it. As a musician and artist, I try and be careful of how I do cover songs. If we use them on a CD, we must pay a fee for every 100 we sell. That is becoming a bit more confusing now as artists publish their own music and no record company is involved. I am sure there are times I have broken copyright and fair use laws though. I try and keep up with the laws surrounding the issues though. We have permission from several groups to use their music when ever we wish.
Probably a bigger issue is when students create slide shows and other media in my classroom.
As I said, I try very hard to make sure they cite the source, but even that doesn't always cover the issue of fair use. It can be frustrating some times because it is so easy for students to just copy and paste things that they get confused as to why anyone would care. This includes copying large chunks of information as they research. There is also the "everyone is doing it" mentality, or the "I won't get caught" way of thinking. I even am often tempted as I put together lessons that I will show on the board.
CreativeCommons.org
So I got my copyright notice and it is on both my front page and the following is an example. Really cool, I love it. Not that anyone is going to want to copy this.
So I got my copyright notice and it is on both my front page and the following is an example. Really cool, I love it. Not that anyone is going to want to copy this.
The Plagiarism Test
I ran a number of documents through the plagscan.com/ http://www.plagscan.com/ web site. I started with some cover letters my son's friend wrote. They sounded so good that I assumed they must have used a site for ideas, but not according to the scanning site. Good job Rocky! I than ran some items my son wrote for one of his 300 level college Spanish classes. The paper was in Spanish and I wanted to see what it would do. It checked it and it came back clean. I know Grand Valley uses sites to check the students work so I figured that would be the case.
I ran pages from one of the books I am writing through the PaperRater site for fun and it came up clean (thank heavens). It did show me some things I needed to fix though.
This week I will run a few that my students did. I know that a few of them copied and pasted things. This is a great way to show them that the Internet knows everything!
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