Phillips,+Wendy

Module 2 Reflection Questions: 1. How does this information on copyright correspond with what you already know and use in your classroom 2. How are you teaching your students about copyright? 3. How do you model correct use of copyrighted materials in your classroom and in your daily life? 4. Do you observe violations of copyright law in your school or among your associates? If so, what violations have your noticed (perhaps now as a result of reading the above materials), and how might you help people to better understand copyright? 5. Why do you think some people violate copyright law? 6. Why do we have copyright laws?

1-Wow- I learned alot about copy right that i didn't even know and am very confused know on some parts of it. I work with preschoolers so we don't teach them about copy right laws and my kids are 4 and 6 and I haven't taught them. but after reading about copy right I will begin to teach my daughter who is in first grade because I have copied things from the web for her school projects and that part might be ok ( a little confused on that) We have copied pictures to use on projects and for daisy meetings for posters- I copy pictures for kids to color and to saw them when teaching ( unsure if this is in violation to the copy right laws or not.

2- don't teach preschoolers about copy right law. Will start to teach my daughter.

3.-My husband and I have coppied our CD's to make a music CD for my daughter to listen to and we didn't even think about copy right laws. growing up with tapes, I my friends and i would copy our tapes for are friends and I am so use to doing that as a kid that i don't even think twice when doing it now with a CD I bought. I know that you shouldn't down load movies or songs for free from torrent websites. I use copy righted stuff all the time without realizing it. I do e-mail people links to websites and I know thats a grey area. I never realized that that might be copyrighted. I have made copies of pages from books and worksheets for kids i have worked with and daisy meetings becuase i only had one. Some teacher workbooks you can copy. I am going to know really read the books, workbooks and images from the web to make sure I can use it and think about what i am using it for.

4. i haven't noticed any copyright laws being violated in the school I work or at my daughters school or my son's preschool. I know friends and family memebers who do violate copy right laws without really realizing it. i think most people realize you don't copy a movie or music tapes even though their are a lot of boot leg movies out there! with computers you can dowload pictues, images,and so many do this without thionking it through. My mom downloads images for her sewing machine to use them copies it on a zip drive and gives it to me so I can use itn on my machine and techicaly that is against the law. 5. I think people violate copyright laws sometimes without realizing it and others because they can and don't understand why you can't or what the big deal is. After reading the acticles I tried and put myself in the shoes of someone who wrote a song or movie and how would I feel if others copied my work and shared it with others and changed arouns what i have done. I would lose out on money and wouldn't like it if my work was used in certain ways. I know people that get boot leg movies and many who download movies for free using torrence. many people think that big movies and actors make so much money whats the big deal making some copies. Its hard with the economy and prizes of going to the movies and buying movies and cd's so high many makes copies to cut their spending. my family only goes to the movies once a year. More people should try libraries for movies and CD's. I take my kids to the library once a week to check out books, but our library has a lot of movies and music CD's to check out as well. unfortunetly many people i am sure would try and make copies of the itmes from the library. 6. I think many people like myself really do not understand what is copyrighted and what you can do and what you can't do. It is important to have copy right laws, without people might be a friad to write music, songs, movies, plays, make images or create painting or pictures if they knew anyone could come a long and copy it and reproduce it for themselves. There needs to be laws protecting people works that they create so they have the right to have it used the way they want it to and to be compensated for their work. There needs to be an easy way to get the rules of copyright laws out to everyone so they really can know and understand the laws.

What have your leared about fair use that will help you in your classroom? ==== as an educator and a mom of small kids i have learned for myself what is able to be copied and what isn't and how much of something you can copy. I plan on printing out the info as a reminder, because it is so easy to forget when you get on the computer and start looking at info and pictures. I have downloadable things and copied stuff that I shouldn't have, but some of it was ok because i used it for the classroom or for my daughters homework. I can start to teach my daughter about the fair use law. I think it is important to start out when they are young and continue as news laws develop. ====

What do you find most confusing about copyright and fair use? What surprised you as you reviewed the above mtttaterials? To remeber it all. I printed it out and pinned it by the computer. its hard to remeber how many copies and how many words or mins. what about school plays and school concerts can teachers record them copy them and hand out to the parents? The time line to use material is a bit confusing you have so many days to use a broadcast. What if in histiry you wanted to use a broadcast you had taped from a shuttle mission or some news clip from years ago. Is that allowed. It is very confusing on what exactly is allowed and what isn't. I have a hard time forgetting that the internet isn't public domain. I allways fiqured that if i could access it for free then i could copy and send it to others becuase anyone can see it. at least now i know thats not so. i will be much more carfefull. what about you-tube songs and stuff does girl scout meetings count as educational? I show them you-tube and copy pictures from the internet to use for projects. i don't know if that counts as educational. what surprised me was that you can only use a broadcast from tv for ten days after it airs if i understand it right. thats strange to me.

How might you use them to help your students learn about copyright and fair use? I really liked the first video. its a great way to teach elemtary kids and maybe middle school kids about copy right laws and fair use. it would keep then engaged. i think a good way is to explain to students about movies and the people who right and make the movies and how it belongs to them and if you alter it or make copies it is the same thong as taking a book or movie from the store and not paying for it. My kids understand how you have to pay for somethingn at a store and they need to be taught the same goes for things on the internet and tv.

Module 3

Think about how you teach digital citizenship in your classroom. How do you integrate this with your academic content? How does your school or district promote good digital citizenship? How might you, your school, and/or your district better integrate digital citizenship into the curriculum? How might you help the parents of your students teach their children to be good digital citizens? In the classroom I work in its a preschool classroom. We don't necessarily teach about being a digital citizenship, but we do talk about respecting the iPad and i pods. We use I pads for our lesson quite a bit so we are showing them how to use the i pod to research animals, books and different topics. the students are in sense learning how to be a digital citizenship by watching the teachers. We need to make sure we are being good citizenship. kids learn more from what we do rather then what we say. In our preschool i think we do a pretty good job. I don't know what my daughters school does to teach good citizenship. I know they talk about how to use the internet and the dos and don't and what happens if you don't follow the rules. I think there should be a better communication between the school and the parents on what is taught and how. At the early intervention preschool i teach at the parents know we use i pads in class, but they don't know exactly what programs we use and how or when we use it. As a parent my daughter brings homework and projects to do. Sometimes she gets confused because I might teach her something differently then the teacher or might use different terminology then the teachers uses. That really confuses her. i think its important for the teachers to some how communicate how things are taught- but i don't know how to do this in a way that won't take too much time of the teacher. I wish the teachers would tell the parents what they talk about when it comes to using the internet and internet safety all we get as parents is the agreement each year to read and fill out and have our children sign. i thinks its important that the parents and teachers are teaching and using the same vocab when it comes to using computers and the internet or it would be very confusing for the child.

there ARE 9 areas that make up citizship in the digital area:

1. Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure

2. Communication: electronic exchange of information

3. Education: the process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology

4. Access: full electronic participation in society

5. Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods

6. Responsibility: electronic responsibility for actions and deeds

7. Rights: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world

8. Safety: physical well-being in a digital technology world

9. Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety

What types of cyberbullying have you seen at your school? Has your staff discussed cyberbulling and how to deal with it? If so, how cyberbullying being addressed? Does your school or district’s tech plan or AUP/RUP contain information on cyberbullying and how it is to be handled? What can you do to prevent cyberbullying? I haven't seen any bulling at the school work and my daughter in first grade hasn't been bullyied or seen any cyberbulling to my knowledge. I work with preschool so we haven't discussed cyberbulling. The san ramon school district's AUP doesn't mention cyberbulling and states thats students are prohibitated from bullying online harrsing making rude, sexial, racial comments online and are prohibited from telling others their passwords or using others passwords. If any students sees any of these things on the computer they \are incurouged to let the teacher know. It states that stduents who disobey the rules will have their privilioug of using the computers at school taken away or prohibitated. I think it is important to start talking about cyberbulling as soon as children start writting on the computer. If we staert when they are young hopefully when they become teens it will just come naturaly to them. . Consider how you might use these and the above information to teach your students about digital citizenship.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Module 4 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">As you explore these resources consider how you will teach your students about cyberbullying and what they can do to prevent it. How will you reach out to students who have been victims of cyberbulling? How will you help parents to understand the implications and indications of cyberbullying for their children (both as cyberbulliers and as victims). <span style="color: #0c0808; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">There were so many good websites and acticles in this module about cyber bullying. I plan on printing some out and saving them for when my kids get a little older. When I was in school we had to deal with bullies which was bad enough, but we didn't have internet and cyberbullying seems almost so much worse then face to face bullying. I like the article goldylocks who was cyberbullied. That is a great story to had out to parents about cyberbullying and what to do if your child has been cyberbullied. Many schools have PTA meetings. They should have an all parents meeting about cyberbulling each year. In the meeting we as educators can talk to parents about cyberbullying and discuss ways to help those that have been cyberbulling and how to stop our children from being cyberbullies. I don't know if some schools already do this, but i know the elementary schools in the area I live don't. I think parents should be educated about it starting in elemtary school. I sort of heard about cyberbullying, but I never knew what to do or how to talk to my kids about it when they got older. this module really helped me in tallking with my kids about it. I think it is important to talk to your class about cyberbulling and leave your door open for any kids who might need to talk about it or have questions about sdistuations that come up. Kids want some one to listen to them not judge, punish or jump to conclusions. It seems likle most teens don't feel they can go to their parents.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">As you view these videso think about how you might use them, or the information in them with your students. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #16161d; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">There was some greta information in the videos. My kids and the kids I work with are too young to warch the videos, but i thinks its important for parents to see them especialy the one about pictures. Thats scary that someone can see your pic online and find the location the picture was taken! My husband and I have been carefull about taking pics. We never place pics of the kids online. We have e-mailed them to family though and my husband had deactivated the track on his smart phone when he first got it. My husband also runs our kids names every once in a while to see if anything pops up. I realized that I need ti start talking about the internet dos and don't with my daughter who is in first grade. If any website she's on she only goes on disney or pbs, but if they were to ask for her name she would type it in and if a message poped up she would probly answer then. She doesn't understand that you shouldn't. She so use to writting her name if something asks for it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #16161d; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Module 5

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">How can you be sure the information you and your students find represents factual information? How can you find sites that will hold your students’ attention long enough for them to gather the information they need? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">i never knew you could look up where a website came from or who the publisher is. It's important to have a lesson on validating websites before doing research at school. i would print out the section where it lists common extensions and what type of facility owns the domain. It takes a while at fist to research each website, but as educators i think its important to research website you plan on using in your lesson before showing them to the students. i am going to research some of my favorite sight and i have already. i think we should always go with our gut if it seems too good to be true that it most likely is. I think it is hard now a days to find learning sights and research sights that can hold a srudents interest. now a days with graphic video games and 3D movies- research sites are boring unless the topic interest the students. the problem is some of those more interesting graphic sights can let virus in. I got a virus from the Disney website when my kids were playing a game on it. i have virus protectors and firer walls on my computer. we had to wipe the whole computer clean to get rid of it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">How can you better integrate higher order thinking skills into your curriculum that will help students be better users of the Internet? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really am not quite sure how to do that with lower elementary kids. It seems like that would be a bit over their heads. I think its important to teach the students if they are unsure of a website always ask an adult. I like the idea of writing out cars near the computers and remind students to think of this acronym when looking at a website. CARS credibility, accuracy, reasonableness and support.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">As you view these videos consider how you will approach these two topics with your students. How do you teach these two concepts now? What have you learned or found in this module that will help you as you teach these concepts to your students? Which of the above resources have been the most helpful for you? At what age should be begin to teach these concepts to students? I think kids should be taught about plagerism and validating website as soon as they staert either writting reports or exploring websites maybe 1st or second grade. with my daughter i have told her that the internet is like TV not everything on it is real or true. She usually asks me when she sees something on the computer or tv if its real. You can start young letting them know that not everything they see is real. I like the CRAP test thats easy to remeber. Teenagers would probly like it. The website "information literacy resources was the most informative website for me. i never realized that you can choose which domain you want to narrow your search in. that will help me a lot when looking up academic information to use for my kids and teaching.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Module 6

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">What is our resonsibility as educators, parents, students, and citizens to assure that all children, young people, as well as all of the people with whom we intersect, be responsible digital citizens?