Category: intellectualproperty
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Can You Do That? Legal Issues in Tech Administration #otaem12
These are my notes from Colin Webb (Noble Public Schools) and Glen Hammonds’ (State Attorney General’s Office) presentation at the February 7, 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encycl-Media Conference titled, “Can You Do That? Legal Issues in Tech Administration.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. First from hearing from Colin Webb: today we’ll…
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Claim Your Online Content With Google+ Authorship Settings
To take charge of your “digital footprint” online, you need to publish content which you “claim” virtually as your own. One effective way to do this is to add website links for sites where you regularly (or periodically) post using the Google+ Authorship program. (It’s free.) Some reasons to do this include: Customizing posts from…
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Vader Did You Know? [video]
As a Star Wars fan familiar with the “Mary Did You Know” song, I found the YouTube remix “Vader Did You Know?” song and video HILARIOUS today. Enjoy! This video is a great example of fair use and legal video remixing. Show this to your students and discuss it. Is this legal? Are the creators…
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A Teachable Copyright Moment from Erik Qualman
Today in New York I shared the presentation, “The Roadmap to Blended Learning” for school administrators at a Technology Leadership Institute hosted by the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center. Roadmap to Blended Learning (4 Nov 2011) View more presentations from Wesley Fryer I showed several videos during the presentation, and the first one was “Social…
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Making the Case for Sharing Curriculum Openly Online [video]
As educators, we need to STOP locking up all our curriculum content behind logins and passwords. We need to stop following behind our institutions like compliant sheep when our leaders suggest things like, “You should put your entire course in BlackBoard / WebCT / Moodle / etc.” In today’s webinar for eTechOhio, I argued that…
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Copyright Infringement Claims Lead to Suspension of Legoboy YouTube Channels
My 13 year old son is a HUGE fan of Legos and stopmotion lego animation videos. He has been pretty upset this weekend and today by a string of events which have affected one of his favorite YouTube Lego builders and animators. “LegoBoy” (real name “David”) is a U.S. teenager who has built a following…
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How to Talk to Your Students About Copyright
Because of the importance and relevance of clear copyright and fair use guidelines for ALL learners “playing with media,” I’ve provided a free, updated version of my chapter on Copyright in the eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” Access it on: http://playingwithmedia.com/pages/copyright I hope this chapter helps provide you and your students…