Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Thing #21 Copyright & Freedom of Info

Every library should have a once a year class where they touch upon these issues. Bookmark a few sites, give the students a short project to work on and go over each one to decide if it's done correctly or not. This type of class could be covered in the English classes so everyone would take it.

There are a few teachers that have issues with copyright laws, mainly pertaining to videos/DVDs. I always cover my end by showing them the rules and let it go from there. In one ear and out the other.

The Creative Commons with Flickr is pretty cool. There's so much to cover as discussed in the guidelines that had been created to create at least a general rule of thumb to cover.

1 comment:

Lu said...

I am in agreement with you in regards to having the students to a class project on copyright.