Online Learning Experience

I chose a to watch a video from the K12 Online Conference 2009 called "Steal this Preso! Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom." This session talked about how we can use music, videos, and other peoples work in our classroom. He talked about when it is okay to have music, videos, or other peoples work in a class project. His main point was that it is okay to use videos and music and borrow stuff from different people as long as the content is going to be used inside your classroom only. So if you are going to invite in parents or staff members then it is not okay. If you are going to post it up on a school website or class blog then it is not okay. The only time you can use outside sources is if it is used for educational purposes inside the classroom. If you do want to use music or videos in a project and post it up on a website or something then you need to write to the copyright author and publisher and get permission from them. This can obviously take some time so if you are going to do this then you should do it early as it can sometimes take as long as a couple months. Another source you have is the public domain. You can use this for whatever project you have, but the problem you have is it is really old and very limited. Anyways there are obviously lots of other rules, but these are the ones that stuck out to me. We need to make sure that we are being a good example about copyright laws since we require our students to adhere to these rules in the classroom.