Copyright

I began by looking at the Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers issued by Teaching & Learning. I really like how specific it is. It could be used as a great resource for teachers to refer to. I went on to look at Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003. From this reading I gathered that to get copyright a person needs to get written permission from the actual creator or copyright holder in writing or they should not use it. One issue on copyright for teachers is the use of academic citation of sources because of the fact that the teacher or student may or may not be documenting these electronic sources in a complete bibliography. This issue, however, relates to fair use. Fair use are limitations on restriction rights of copyright holders. Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act provide guidelines for determining Fair Use. Something that I learned from this reading was how best to prepare yourself as a teacher to use copyright laws and Fair Use appropriately in the classroom. I learned that it is okay to use sound clips, songs, and graphics from the Internet in the classroom if it is in PowerPoint presentation, face to face meeting, or a password protected website if their is a limited audience. It is not okay to re post or distribute these taken images or videos/audio clips.