"My contributions to the WebQuest wikis"

1. I found that one of the pages was on protected mode and I could not edit that page! I pointed out and Dr. Theresa said it counted!
2. I added the Echoes of a Dream into the Process part.
3. I placed the Evaluation section and a link to Extra! Extra!

"Copyright and Fair Use LR"

1. The state mandates technology proficiency for all high school students but adds no money to schools' software budgets. To ensure equity, public schools are allowed to buy what software they can afford and copy the rest.

False. Some interpretations of the 11th Amendment of the Constitution suggest that state schools may in fact be exempt from copyright prosecutions. However, following the guidelines encourages software and hardware makers to keep making quality products for us to buy.

This is somehting that I did not know. I don't understand how this fully works. I feel like they would make them pay one big fee to put on their computer. I do understand the updating a lot because than the school has to upgrade and buy more products every so often. I guess I wasn't as 'heated' about this one and it isn't very 'juicey' its's just I want to learn more about it! I am intregued really!

"Copyright and Fair Use SR"

1. A teacher gets clip art and music from popular file-sharing sites, then creates a lesson plan and posts it on the school Web site to share with other teachers. This is permissible.

False. Legitimately acquired material can be used in classrooms. However, under the current law, no teacher can redistribute such material over the Net or any other medium. You can use it, but you can't spread it around.

-This is a little confusing because people use clip art ALL the time and I never see anything really going against it. I feel like there would be a warning as you added clip art to your page asking you what you plan to do with the project that your putting that clip art on and if it's 'allowed'.

2. A student film buff downloads a new release from a Taiwanese Web site to use for a humanities project. As long as the student gives credit to the sites from which he's downloaded material, this is covered under fair use.

False. Educators may use "legitimately acquired" material without asking permission, but many file-sharing sites are suspect in this area. Use common sense to determine if those peer-to-peer resources are legitimate or pirated
-Wait a minute! Is this really true, because I thought that if you just cited something that you were good for something that is for school purposes. I feel as if I have stolen than!

2. A geography teacher has more students and computers than software. He uses a CD burner to make several copies of a copyright interactive CD-ROM so each student can use an individual copy in class. This is fair use.

False. Just as with a print encyclopedia, one student at a time has access to a piece of software. The number of students who can use a software program simultaneously is restricted to the number of copies the school owns (but be sure to check out #2 above).

-This is unfairbecause then the students are beign deprived and the school must pay more to have access for all the students. I'm really not too suprised because this tends to happen a lot, but it just really sucks

4. A student tries to digitize the shower scene from a rented copy of Psycho into a "History of Horror" report. Her computer won't do it. The movie happens to be on an NBC station that week, so the teacher tapes it and then digitizes it on the computer for her. This is fair use.

True. Manufacturers are instituting blocking technology, authorized under the law, so newer material like VHS rentals and DVDs block educators from their constitutional right to use material for teaching. It's time to begin complaining. In the meantime, educators should grab all the laserdiscs they can find. They're unblocked.

- I would think that this would be against the rules and needed to get permission for use first. I guess that I don't see the difference between the tapped one and the rented one... they are not making money if she burns it from the TV or from the rental place (other than the money that NBC or the rental place has paid the Movie company).

5. On Back-to-School night, an elementary school offers child care for students' younger siblings. They put the kids in the library and show them Disney VHS tapes bought by the PTA. This is permissible.

False. Video (like everything else) is not covered under fair use for entertainment or reward. The use described is entertainment, pure and simple. However, Disney will sell you a one-time license for $25 that makes this legal use. Call Disney at (818) 560-1000, ask for "Rights," and prepare to trade faxes.

-That's kind of insane because no one wants to or does actually get permission adn pay a fee everytime they do an event. I feel as if they are going to show it more than a certain amount of people, yeah they should pay, but if it's at a babysitting night or in a day-care and just to a small handfull of people it should be acceptable.

6. A teacher makes a compilation of movie clips from various VHS tapes to use in his classroom as lesson starters. This is covered under fair use.

False. The current guidelines exclude the creation of video compilations. However, FilmClipsOnline.com offers film clips for free (the VHS tape on American values is particularly good.) E-mail Michael Rhodes at imrhodes@msn.com or call (805) 984-5907.

-Isn't there an education clause that if it is under a ccertain amount of seconds or mins (or whatever) that it's fair use...?

7. A high school video class produces a DVD yearbook that includes the year's top ten music hits as background music. This is fair use.

False. This is not fair use. Yearbooks are not generally intended to be instructional. Plus, it's not permissible to use entire songs. If you're using pieces of songs and analyzing them as a reflection of the times students lived in, that's different.

-That's shocking because a lot of schools do that sort of thing with their yearbooks and other things. I wonder how they deal with such a thing and why doesn't the yearbook advisor stop them?

8. Last year, a school's science fair multimedia CD-ROM was so popular everyone wanted a copy of it. Everything in it was copied under fair use guidelines. It's permissible for the school to sell copies to recover the costs of reproduction.

False. Fair use allows educational use of copyright material, true, but it does so only if there is no anticipation of wider distribution.

-So if the Senior class wanted to do a fundraser of "songs from our 12 years of school" or soemthing of the such, it would be illeagal. They wouldn't be able to do it in the end because the fee's and final cost would be more than the profit in the end. I feel as if there should just be a time or song limit on the amount on the CD that they sell.

How to help someone use a computer.

"How to help someone use a computer" by Phil Agre

1."Thing you have to tell yourself": Nobody is born knowing this stuff.
This is a good rule of thumb when working on something difficult and new. No one in the word knows everything and in turn we must go through the learning process day-by-day because we're always learning something new (if not life would be boring). Some of the new stuff that we attempt to learn is difficult i.e. computers. I was the first one on the block in 4th or 5th grade to get a computer and internet in my house; I was the cool kid then. But still even though I have been using computers since I was in elementary school I still have issues and each time I go on it seems I find out something new (especially now that I have converted to a MAC). With all the new programing that comes out there is no way that anyone would be able to know all the information about any computer. So when I get frustrated (like trying to use new type 2 technologies), I just think they I was not born with this information and I need it so better now than later.

"Important rule": Try not to ask yes-or-no questions. Nobody wants to look foolish, so their answer is likely to be a guess. "Did you attach to the file server?" will get you less information than "What did you do after you turned the computer on?".

This is an important rule when teaching people something because you don't want to discourage them from continuing on. They don't know this stuff, because if they did they wouldn't need you. So instead you need to stay calm and walk them them through step-by-step in the simplest terms with them.

2. Then start a new paragraph and write one sentence (I'll accept 2 if you insist) telling how you can use that information (what you learned from either of the two facts from the article or both) in your team's presentation where you're going to be teaching us about a technology in the classroom.

When we go to present about the Maine Memory Network, I feel as if we don't need to too much language tone down because it's a pretty basic technology. I think the only things that we may need to explain and go into detail about is the goals and purpose of the website, what they're currently doing, and other organizations that go through it. So I don't feel like as much applies to us since all of the people in the class have used the internet, but we must understand that we need to assume that no one has ever been to this website or used this type of technology before.

"Fires in the Bathroom": Chapter 9

1. The advice of "don't take a bad day too hard" is great advice for new teachers (page 171).

2. I always fear getting overwhelmed. Thats is a reason why I like that UMF offers Practicum, because it challenges you and overwhelms you to make sure your really cut out for this. That is why every time I look at my homework load and think it's a lot I just think about the end result and my teachers goals to make sure that I am good enough and ready to go into this profession. 

"Fires in the Bathroom": Chapter 10

1. "Do regular class work outside the school" (page 176).

2. I love when teachers take class work outside the classroom. There are many ways to take the work and education process outside the classroom. Some teachers like to bring their students out on to a back patio or some place outside the walls of the school to have lecture outside of the classroom so that they can give the students a different atmosphere and the UV rays help so that students wake up a little more. Teachers also take the opportunity to take labs and experiments outside the classroom like in math they could do measurements and estimates of the schools diameter or science could go down and do experiments at the local pond. For me and my focus I can obviously take students outside for lecture but to do outside work I would need someplace a little further away and make a field trip out of it, like a museum or a battle field, etc. It also brings in more MI's by taking the classroom outdoors.

"Fires in the Bathroom": Chapter 8

1. "Help us understand the secrets of 'book language.' Teach us what to look for when we read- words that indicate comparisons, or chapter subheads, or illustrations and charts. Before we read, give us a preview of what important vocabulary to watch for."

2. I went to school in Portland and I went to school with a lot of ESL students. It's hard to learn the english language and the best thing for a student is to get a little help. Books like Shakespeare or "Animal Farm" are hard enough to read as a student who has lived here her whole life, I can just imagine how hard it must be for an ESL student. ESL students need a little extra attention, but as a teacher one must try not to invest all their attention into that or those ESL students in their class and forget about the others thought.