Here is my collection of comments on blog posts from OLTD 505. This should be part two of my final projects, part one being my Prezi Summary of Learning, this (part two) and my final post will be my SooMeta slideshow entitled Growing up in 505....if I can ever get it working!
Anyways - to my posts:
Response to Sonny
I appreciate your post, Sonny, as it helps outline the differences between copyright and copyleft. I especially liked your last line "Having the ability to share, take, modify is essential I am glad to see a framework being setup so that this can happen easily and legally."
I think, however, this is a feeling that is maybe only shared by people of our generation and not necessarily the young people today. At some point in our studies it was said or read that young people are sharing content, not because they want to manipulate the system, but because they don't see it as being someone's property - they are just part of a movement to share and remix and rework content - there is no malice intended.
I think that a big part of the legal side of the copyright argument is to do with malice (or at least that the companies feel it is) and, of course, money. Big corporations feel that the general public is trying to infringe on their rights for profit. I can see their point as a lot of people do download movies and tv shows in order to ‘stick it’ to big business. However, most file sharers aren't necessarily looking for profit - they are simply sharing what they have because they have the ability to share. Whereas we are worried about being sued, they feel they have the right to share what they have.
I’m interested to see how this copyright issue plays out over the next 1, 10, 100 years…..
Response to Breanne
I too loved that cogdogblog site, Breanne, and instantly thought we should create one for OLTD.....maybe when we finish we can publish a site that has all of our reflections on our coursework and the story of each of our journeys...
Open Access is the principle that research should be accessible online, for free, immediately after publication. From http://edtechfrontier.com/2013/03/
Response to Andrew
Hi Andrew! I too was totally hooked by this piece – I watched it over three nights and was always wanting to watch more. I find it interesting how pervasive this issue of ownership has become – at the expense of many – in terms of free access to information, access to health care, access to culture. It was a very well made documentary piece that tied together many ideas.
Not sure my class is quite ready for it, but I think I’ll revisit it again when I have time…….
Response to Ben
Ben, I absolutely agree with your comments surrounding Netflix and how the abundance of downloading is simply a servicing issue. I was thinking when pulling together my blog post that it’s funny how companies are suing to the tunes of thousands of dollars when I can actually get the movies I want for less than $10 a month. Even in that model they aren’t making much off of me – but they are making something, which is better than nothing if I download content for free. What these companies have to realize is that their days of having a hold on the market are done – with internet access what it is, anyone can get anything for relatively cheap (if not free) at anytime. So what they have to do is play upon our moral codes to get us to do the right thing and purchase the service (cheaply) instead of sourcing it out elsewhere. Great point! I truly think current models will be replaced with ones that are more of the people for the people….
Response to ???? (I can’t believe I forgot to write this down and just searched through a whole bunch of blogs and couldn’t find it…ugh!)
As an interesting aside to your comment about digital versions of resources - I recently purchased the digital version of our math textbook to use in my classroom as it has many add on tools that allow students to manipulate object and complete related activities on our smartboard. The only real problem? The digital version is a copy of another version of the same textbook (eastern Canada maybe??) and doesn't exactly match ours. Not a huge issue, but I haven't used it much because I have to search out pages and flip around to find a similar page/topic to what we are doing. I had never considered that what I was purchasing wouldn't parallel what I had in hard copy in the classroom.....
Kris
Response to Breanne
Hi Breanne - not sure if this app is available for a Bamboo tablet (I've not heard of that one before but it sounds very cool) but an amazing app for a ipad is Educreations - which allows you to draw on a whiteboard and provide examples while recording your voice. I've only used it a few times but I believe you can post the recordings to a website, email them from your device or simply save them on your device for a student (in a f2f class) to watch later. I've also used this with appletv in my classroom to project the whole thing on our smartboard. A very cool app indeed!
Response to Andrew
Wow - thanks for the heads up on TedEd - I will definitely be looking into making them more a part of my own classroom! I am toying with the idea of changing my current events time next year to a TedTalk time as there are so many amazing talks on there......but it would mean a lot of watching for me. We'll see!
Thanks again - I'm going to do some more research into this one!
Response to Marieke
absolutely great point here - everything is a remix. Look at fashion - right now there is a definite 80's trend in all the neon and crop shirts - my daughter is asking why I didn't save her all my clothes! Look at movies - the other day on the way home the radio announcer was complaining about Ironman 3, Fast and Furious 6, etc....and saying isn't there any original thought anymore? I thought, boy if you could only listen in on the conversations we are having! Everything old is new again (response to Marieke’s Kirby Ferguson TEDtalk post)
This link has made me wonder if the kids in my class even think about copyright. I'll pose the question to them next week about what is allowable use and what is not - should be an interesting discussion.
thanks!
Response to Justin
Hi Justin,
I'm interested in getting my hands on a copy of this draft policy. I'm interested to see what the lay of the land looks like and understand the School Boards reasoning. I myself have a 'personal' and a separate 'school' Facebook account which I use for people in my class or their parents and former students. I communicate weekly homework assignments or announcements of things going on in our class and have had a very positive response. Though it's not everyone's cup of tea, I find that most people have Facebook these days and it makes it a quick, easy way to communicate with parents and keep up to date with former students. I do silence former students (don't show them in the news feed) so that inappropriate content isn't finding it's way into my page, but still have the ability for them to contact me if needs be.
Given that the use of social media in the classroom is still a fairly new practice, I think it will take some time to get acceptable use policies ironed out and into effect.
Cheers,
Kris
Response to Michael
I am using textbooks less and less in the classroom...which is a shame because they cost so much money. But the information is static and limited. When you have the option of videos over text....yeah, the textbook industry is going to struggle pretty quick here.
Anyways - to my posts:
Response to Sonny
I appreciate your post, Sonny, as it helps outline the differences between copyright and copyleft. I especially liked your last line "Having the ability to share, take, modify is essential I am glad to see a framework being setup so that this can happen easily and legally."
I think, however, this is a feeling that is maybe only shared by people of our generation and not necessarily the young people today. At some point in our studies it was said or read that young people are sharing content, not because they want to manipulate the system, but because they don't see it as being someone's property - they are just part of a movement to share and remix and rework content - there is no malice intended.
I think that a big part of the legal side of the copyright argument is to do with malice (or at least that the companies feel it is) and, of course, money. Big corporations feel that the general public is trying to infringe on their rights for profit. I can see their point as a lot of people do download movies and tv shows in order to ‘stick it’ to big business. However, most file sharers aren't necessarily looking for profit - they are simply sharing what they have because they have the ability to share. Whereas we are worried about being sued, they feel they have the right to share what they have.
I’m interested to see how this copyright issue plays out over the next 1, 10, 100 years…..
Response to Breanne
I too loved that cogdogblog site, Breanne, and instantly thought we should create one for OLTD.....maybe when we finish we can publish a site that has all of our reflections on our coursework and the story of each of our journeys...
Open Access is the principle that research should be accessible online, for free, immediately after publication. From http://edtechfrontier.com/2013/03/
Response to Andrew
Hi Andrew! I too was totally hooked by this piece – I watched it over three nights and was always wanting to watch more. I find it interesting how pervasive this issue of ownership has become – at the expense of many – in terms of free access to information, access to health care, access to culture. It was a very well made documentary piece that tied together many ideas.
Not sure my class is quite ready for it, but I think I’ll revisit it again when I have time…….
Response to Ben
Ben, I absolutely agree with your comments surrounding Netflix and how the abundance of downloading is simply a servicing issue. I was thinking when pulling together my blog post that it’s funny how companies are suing to the tunes of thousands of dollars when I can actually get the movies I want for less than $10 a month. Even in that model they aren’t making much off of me – but they are making something, which is better than nothing if I download content for free. What these companies have to realize is that their days of having a hold on the market are done – with internet access what it is, anyone can get anything for relatively cheap (if not free) at anytime. So what they have to do is play upon our moral codes to get us to do the right thing and purchase the service (cheaply) instead of sourcing it out elsewhere. Great point! I truly think current models will be replaced with ones that are more of the people for the people….
Response to ???? (I can’t believe I forgot to write this down and just searched through a whole bunch of blogs and couldn’t find it…ugh!)
As an interesting aside to your comment about digital versions of resources - I recently purchased the digital version of our math textbook to use in my classroom as it has many add on tools that allow students to manipulate object and complete related activities on our smartboard. The only real problem? The digital version is a copy of another version of the same textbook (eastern Canada maybe??) and doesn't exactly match ours. Not a huge issue, but I haven't used it much because I have to search out pages and flip around to find a similar page/topic to what we are doing. I had never considered that what I was purchasing wouldn't parallel what I had in hard copy in the classroom.....
Kris
Response to Breanne
Hi Breanne - not sure if this app is available for a Bamboo tablet (I've not heard of that one before but it sounds very cool) but an amazing app for a ipad is Educreations - which allows you to draw on a whiteboard and provide examples while recording your voice. I've only used it a few times but I believe you can post the recordings to a website, email them from your device or simply save them on your device for a student (in a f2f class) to watch later. I've also used this with appletv in my classroom to project the whole thing on our smartboard. A very cool app indeed!
Response to Andrew
Wow - thanks for the heads up on TedEd - I will definitely be looking into making them more a part of my own classroom! I am toying with the idea of changing my current events time next year to a TedTalk time as there are so many amazing talks on there......but it would mean a lot of watching for me. We'll see!
Thanks again - I'm going to do some more research into this one!
Response to Marieke
absolutely great point here - everything is a remix. Look at fashion - right now there is a definite 80's trend in all the neon and crop shirts - my daughter is asking why I didn't save her all my clothes! Look at movies - the other day on the way home the radio announcer was complaining about Ironman 3, Fast and Furious 6, etc....and saying isn't there any original thought anymore? I thought, boy if you could only listen in on the conversations we are having! Everything old is new again (response to Marieke’s Kirby Ferguson TEDtalk post)
This link has made me wonder if the kids in my class even think about copyright. I'll pose the question to them next week about what is allowable use and what is not - should be an interesting discussion.
thanks!
Response to Justin
Hi Justin,
I'm interested in getting my hands on a copy of this draft policy. I'm interested to see what the lay of the land looks like and understand the School Boards reasoning. I myself have a 'personal' and a separate 'school' Facebook account which I use for people in my class or their parents and former students. I communicate weekly homework assignments or announcements of things going on in our class and have had a very positive response. Though it's not everyone's cup of tea, I find that most people have Facebook these days and it makes it a quick, easy way to communicate with parents and keep up to date with former students. I do silence former students (don't show them in the news feed) so that inappropriate content isn't finding it's way into my page, but still have the ability for them to contact me if needs be.
Given that the use of social media in the classroom is still a fairly new practice, I think it will take some time to get acceptable use policies ironed out and into effect.
Cheers,
Kris
Response to Michael
I am using textbooks less and less in the classroom...which is a shame because they cost so much money. But the information is static and limited. When you have the option of videos over text....yeah, the textbook industry is going to struggle pretty quick here.