Week 4 Instructional Overview

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EDG 5075 Technologies for Blended and Online Learning and Teaching (BOLT) in K-12 Week 4 Instructional Overview September 17-23, 2012

Week 4 Ethical Issues: Copyright, Academic Integrity This week we will be discussing two issues which are critical for BOLT at any level (K-12 or HE): copyright and academic integrity. Copyright Copyright is one of the issues that needs to be considered in media selection and use. Technologies make it so easy to copy/paste, add an image, insert a movie clip, use a piece of music, etc. To be or not to be? And why schools are sometimes the worse pirates of software, videos, and music? Not enough awareness or just thinking that schools will not be sued? Well, read this article related to copyright violations in schools to see that the latter is not true! There is no magic recipe, but here are some basic guidelines: The answer to your most pressing copyright questions depends on how and where the copyrighted materials is being used (e.g., face-to-face teaching, posted in Blackboard, embedded in PowerPoint presentation, etc.). Determining fair use of an item is based on a series of four factors (purpose, nature, amount, and effect of commercial value), rather than a set of rules, so it is subject to interpretation. There are lots of sites that provide information on what can be used in teaching, both face-to-face and online (see course resources in Bb). Also see the "Faculty and Staff" tab at http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/copyright for links to some of these (developed by Gloria Colvin, FSU librarian). For example, the rule of thumb for film clips is up to 10% of the total or three (3) minutes, whichever is less. For digitizing text material for course reserves at FSU, the librarians use 10 - 15% percent of the total as FSU’s guideline. The best thing to do for journal articles is to link to the article using a DOI or another durable URL rather than posting the pdf of the article on Blackboard or other content management system you will be using in your schools. You heard before about Fair Use Guidelines, Creative Commons licensing, and other documents and guides. Time to review them in more detail and take a test! Yes, we do take tests in this class!

Assignment (Week 4 Copyright, 2 points) 1


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