I don’t know what I’m doing, I don’t know really how to do it but I promise you I am trying. I am trying to give credit where credit is due, not taking credit for anything that isn’t mine and trying to figure out what I can and can not use publicly!
Licensed by Wikipedia
Copy Write problems anyone?
Teaching this is a bit of a nightmare. I really focus with the students on why plagerism is not a good thing and with my age group a tag line I often use is ” I want to hear your voice, your facts as you see them, they’re the most important.” This is when we are researching or doing Expert Presentations or projects. The problem is HOW do we give the credit when things we use come from the internet.
Sometimes I think it would be easier writing a mini paragraph about where we sourced the material. And the difficulty isn’t so much the blogs or resource pages or quotes it’s the images, and music. To confess, I really was very quick with the old highlighting and pasting stuff, but NO MORE I am doing the comfight you can use this image site deal now. And that’s not all, did you know that with google you can go to images, choose settings and under advanced search you click on usage rights and choose free to use or share. This gives you access to all sorts of images of your choosing that you can give credit to and use. Whewww! (I also need to thank Sean W publicly for helping me out with this one!! )
Listen I know, you probably knew all that stuff but I am taking my opportunity to bask in the moment of learning something knew and it directly effecting lessons in my class. Another way to give images, and the people that create them, or take them, the credit they deserve.
I really liked the blog of Wesley Fryer . He has a ton of posts about using creative commons with kids and he also loves Haiku Deck. Wooo Hooooo I use Haiku Deck in class with my students and it uses safe and usable images as well. I am referring more and more to his blog for helpful tips and tricks about how to more effectively give credit.
So if it ain’t yours don’t take it, just make sure that if you use a picture of it, you actually can…and of course, give credit where credit is due!
