Copyright

[Vicki Davis]

Let's talk copyright in a flat classroom. Are there guidelines that should emerge to be fair to all students? What should they be? Help!

[Rob Kamrowski]

I've been wondering the same thing and I cannot seem to find a simple answer to this question. I have found some resources on Wesley Fryer's blog Moving at the Speed of Creativity. Perhaps a look at those articles is a place to start.

[Vicki Davis]

Kristin Hokanson is an expert in this area, I've "pinged" her to see if she has anything we can share here and with students in the future.

[Lisa Parisi]

This is an intriguing topic. I do believe copyright guidelines should be the same for all students involved in any project. Maybe that should be clarified early on. I know when I create a wiki for use in a project, I include a cc license with an explanation. That would cover anything on the site but perhaps more of a "rules page" should be included that explains what can and cannot be used on the site.

[Anne Baird]

This is very topical for me at the moment. A student at my school had a chat to me this morning about her concern that the way she had designed her wikifolio and the animated gifs and banners she had created had been copied by other students and claimed as their own. Because she had been away with illness for a few weeks she wasn't able to really follow it up until now. This has really upset her and I can understand why. So after a chat we have both agreed that this is a perfect opportunity to revisit CCommons and copyright even if it only applies in our own classroom and Year group. I guess what it brought home to me that this issue is not only about those people who are publishing widely and being read by many but it's equally important to that one student who has worked hard to make something her own and wants to claim it as such.
I will check out the resources to see if there is something that will help our class lesson tomorrow and let you know how it goes.