The
Canadian copyright environment has seen many changes in the last few
years and these changes directly impact copyright practices for our
academic community. The Internet has changed how we access and share
information. It is easy to highlight text to copy and paste it
elsewhere. Similarly, it is just as easy to download images and
videos. Google, Flickr, and other search engines have provided the
ability to search images and download them, although with caution to
copyright infringements. What matters most is, as a digital citizen, we
should all give credit where it's due; it is our responsibility.
Creative Commons is a great resource and has helped to protect the work
of others. There are restrictions applied to people's work to allow
others to use, attribute, share, or remix the information. As
educators, we need to educate our students on academic integrity and
that it is wrong to "steal" other people's work, whether it be text or
multimedia.
Here is a little video I created using Animoto on the topic of Copyright being a digital responsibility.
Datoo, S. (cc2013)
Animoto,
and similar tools are a great way to visually represent information.
Not only does it allow you to add text and upload images, it allows you
to upload or add music and videos, which adds so much to a
presentation. However, we need to be aware of copyright infringements
and either get permission to use images, music, and videos or attribute
them appropriately.
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