You can start off by educating yourself on copyright laws, fair use and the legalities of using pictures, audio, etc that is not yours. Educate yourself on how to practice safe, legal and responsible use of info and technology. I must know the information first before i teach my students on how to properly copyright and fair use. After reading the information i see that when you are unsure about whether something is copyrighted or you're not sure how to cite the information, you should ask. Copyrights and Copying Wrongs, the first part in the Education World series on copyright and fair use, set out a good rule of thumb for using copyrighted material -- when in doubt, ask permission (Starr ,2010).
Fair use is not a license to steal. It was created for educational use. The fair use doctrine was created to allow the use of copyrighted works for criticism and commentary, parody, news reporting, research and scholarship, and classroom instruction. Many educators, however, interpret the fair use doctrine as freedom to use any copyrighted materials as long as their use is restricted to instructional purposes (Starr, 2010). Educators must have a positive attitude toward respecting people for their works and not taking what is not yours without giving credit to whom credit is due. They themselves must set an example. (For example; when i use pictures in a lesson i will let the students know where I got them from, and give credit to the author, painter, creator, etc). Even under fair use there are certain limitations to what you can copy. So as educators we must read up on those limitations also.
Those guidelines allow educators, under most circumstances, to copy
• a single chapter from a book
• an excerpt from a work that combines language and illustrations, such as a children's book, not exceeding two pages or 10 percent of the work, whichever is less
• a poem of 250 words or less or up to 250 words of a longer poem
• an article, short story, or essay of 2,500 words or less, or excerpts of up to 1,000 words or 10 percent of a longer work, whichever is less; or
• a single chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon, or picture from a book, periodical, or newspaper.
The guidelines do not allow users to :
• make multiple copies of different works as a substitute for the purchase of books or periodicals
• copy the same works for more than one semester, class, or course
• copy the same work more than nine times in a single semester
• use copyrighted work for commercial purposes
• use copyrighted work without attributing the author (Starr,2010).
Those limitations extend to music, audio and other forms of technology also. The bottom line is to educate yourself as a teachers before you educate your students. And have a positive attitude about it. Your students feed off of your enthusiasm and you don’t want to give them any misinformation.
Let them know the facts; the facts about copyright, fair use, and plagiarism. Support your kids to use resources on the internet respectfully and appropriately. And teach them about the consequences if you don’t. Allow yourself to be approachable in the case that they do commit an act of plagiarism allow them to come to you and be honest and be honest in return. Inform them again of what they did, why it is wrong, how it is wrong and help them make steps toward not making those same mistakes in the future.
APA CITATION:
Starr, L. (2010, May 25). Education World ® Professional Development Center: Curriculum: The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use. Education World® The Educator's Best Friend. Retrieved November 16, 2010, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280.shtml •
The 2Learn.ca Education Society presents NetKnowHow.ca. (n.d.). The 2Learn.ca Education Society presents NetKnowHow.ca. Retrieved November 16, 2010, from http://www.netknowhow.ca/NKHPLWID
There are places in your blog post where you are citing a web site directly. Those should be in quotes, otherwise you could be in danger of plagiarizing someone else's work. The APA citation is not enough, you also need to use quotation marks to indicate that the text is a direct quote.
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