I had no idea about the extent of copyright laws for teachers. It all makes sense that people who create and have ideas want to be paid and receive credit for them.
THe Stanford site and the Educator's Fair Use site provided details that I did not know previously. Public domain belongs to the public so this is fair game. And it makes sense that if one has permission or a legal exception on can use a particular work. However, it is the fair use policy that I need more clarity on. I thought that when resources were used in the name of education there was an exception to the rule. I learned today that there are stipulations with regard to what one makes copies of, in the case of poetry there is a 250-word limit, for prose, short stories, essays, and web articles 500 words maybe copied. The big lesson is not to copy something in its entirety, just enough to provide a teaser so that students will want to go back and find the work for themselves. The internet is helpful in providing resources so that we do not have to make copies and students can access information on their own after they are provided with websites.
As I read Keeping it Legal, I thought about how for our school’s website we should only use pictures taken by students and artwork designed by students. As a technology school, it would be good for students to experience copyrighting their own work.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
5 Podcasts reviewed
Democracy Now: en espanol
I call this this an underground news source because Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez present news that is not covered by the mainstream. Everyday there is a report on the war in Iraq. There is a critical consciousness to the news delivered with regard to race, class, and gender. They have a podcast of the headline stories in Spanish, which is nice but it goes very quickly so I tend to use the written version more frequently than the audio version.
Youth Radio
This is an amazing site for youth. The podcast I listened to was from Nico Savidge who after listening to a stand-up from Dave Chappelle learned about Grape Drink in the black community and decided to do a full piece about it. He interviews an authority of the Grape Drink company, a Grape Drink consumer, and one who does not like Grape Drink. He finds out what the contents in Grape Drink are (and aren't as there is no actual juice) and why they're put into the ingredients (low price and long shelf life). He also discsses the smear campaign of Sunny Delight referring to Grape Drink as simply the "Purple Stuff".
Cut to the Core
This is a podcast put out by educators but I was not impressed with the first segment I heard, which was Larry Anderson talking about technology in education. He was basically saying what I have already heard before. Teachers should decide if they want to use technology or not (and it seems that if you can access a podcast you are already making that decision) and then he says that we should figure out how to integrate it into our curriculum without giving any specific ideas. Although this particular podcast was very unenlightening, I would check these podcasts out again to see what other issues they discuss.
Indiefeed: Hip Hop Music
As a fan of original hip hop music, it was refreshing to hear this independent station that is not controlled by Clear Channel. It is amazing how many wonderful artists there are out there who do not get airtime because they talk about real issues.
Flipsyde
This group is my favorite group out right now. They have a new genre of music that you have to hear in order to understand. They are from the Bay Area and they combine hip hop with live music, Latin guitars, and other sounds. They talk about political issues and keeping faith in a hypocritical society.
I call this this an underground news source because Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez present news that is not covered by the mainstream. Everyday there is a report on the war in Iraq. There is a critical consciousness to the news delivered with regard to race, class, and gender. They have a podcast of the headline stories in Spanish, which is nice but it goes very quickly so I tend to use the written version more frequently than the audio version.
Youth Radio
This is an amazing site for youth. The podcast I listened to was from Nico Savidge who after listening to a stand-up from Dave Chappelle learned about Grape Drink in the black community and decided to do a full piece about it. He interviews an authority of the Grape Drink company, a Grape Drink consumer, and one who does not like Grape Drink. He finds out what the contents in Grape Drink are (and aren't as there is no actual juice) and why they're put into the ingredients (low price and long shelf life). He also discsses the smear campaign of Sunny Delight referring to Grape Drink as simply the "Purple Stuff".
Cut to the Core
This is a podcast put out by educators but I was not impressed with the first segment I heard, which was Larry Anderson talking about technology in education. He was basically saying what I have already heard before. Teachers should decide if they want to use technology or not (and it seems that if you can access a podcast you are already making that decision) and then he says that we should figure out how to integrate it into our curriculum without giving any specific ideas. Although this particular podcast was very unenlightening, I would check these podcasts out again to see what other issues they discuss.
Indiefeed: Hip Hop Music
As a fan of original hip hop music, it was refreshing to hear this independent station that is not controlled by Clear Channel. It is amazing how many wonderful artists there are out there who do not get airtime because they talk about real issues.
Flipsyde
This group is my favorite group out right now. They have a new genre of music that you have to hear in order to understand. They are from the Bay Area and they combine hip hop with live music, Latin guitars, and other sounds. They talk about political issues and keeping faith in a hypocritical society.
Podcasting
Since the link to the "What is a podcast?" was not up, I used a search engine, which led me to a wikipedia definition. It said that an MTV VJ Adam Curry came up with this new source of media. Before podcasting if you missed a radio program, you missed it. With podcasting, this is not the case. It is also a way to produce your own radio program through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or access other programs that do not have radio airwaves. What's more is that this technology is free.
I learned from the FAQs that podcasts could be in the forms of audio, visual, and document. This page also gave information on how to put podcasts on ipods, how to find podcasts in other languages, and how to put parental controls on the content.
I used to teach at East Oakland Community High School and some of our students worked with a tech savvy English teacher in creating podcasts. Seeing this, I think they can potentially contribute much to education. They tap into a technology that students are already excited and knowledgeable about. They have to participate in a writing process and an editing process that provides them with a real audience. The Apple Education page showed how easily accessible the Apple company has made it for teachers to involve their students and create podcasts. Of interest to me was the mention of podcasting for foreign language classrooms. This will be a new challenge.
I learned from the FAQs that podcasts could be in the forms of audio, visual, and document. This page also gave information on how to put podcasts on ipods, how to find podcasts in other languages, and how to put parental controls on the content.
I used to teach at East Oakland Community High School and some of our students worked with a tech savvy English teacher in creating podcasts. Seeing this, I think they can potentially contribute much to education. They tap into a technology that students are already excited and knowledgeable about. They have to participate in a writing process and an editing process that provides them with a real audience. The Apple Education page showed how easily accessible the Apple company has made it for teachers to involve their students and create podcasts. Of interest to me was the mention of podcasting for foreign language classrooms. This will be a new challenge.
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