cloudy with meatballs!

cloudy with meatballs!
Imagine the meatballs are computers?

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Yup, so you got here I see! Ok, so the pictures I have put on this blog.....nope, didn't make them myself, but somewhere in them maybe there's a name or credit...did not really look too closely. I think we assume if it's on the net it's open for use by anyone......how will this be monitored when there could be millions of users out there. I remember the music companies going after people who downloaded song after song, and the few that were brought to trial or fined for thousands of dollars....and yet there's so much stuff out there now...how can it be monitored? I suppose the best we could do as educators is to continue to suggest that students give some sort of credit somewhere when they use other people's work, pictures, media, etc. I guess I can credit the creators (or the graphic artist(s) of the Cloudy with Meatballs movie with the picture, but the other computer came off a google site I think.......maybe there's a credit on it somewhere, best I look soon. I'm thinking that whatever you use in whatever format, if a piece of the original work is intact then we are done with downloading or using anything else we see.....Orwelian? Mike B. Not feeling too philosophical at this time of night...

3 comments:

Lisa said...

One approach might be to set boundaries for both you and your students use of web resources. It's like when 30 years ago I decided if I wanted my son to wear his seatbelt I was going to have to consistently wear mine, modelling what behavior I wanted from him. Choose only resources to which you can cite the creator in a caption or footnote, then set the same standard for them. If you are consistent w keeping them to this standard they will fall into line quickly.

maryfahey@wordpress.com said...

I'm thinking that you are right about our role as modelers of the "right" behavior. If we get our students in the habit of citing sources, even for the most rudimentary kinds of tasks/assignments, it would help instill the habit of giving credit where credit is due. I'm also thinking that students need a "lesson" that lets them know how it feels to have their work pirated. Not sure yet how that would look or work, but I'm going to think on it to see what I can come up with.

Mr. B said...

Good point you two. As teachers, we always will need to show "the way" in a lesson format of some kind,,,so it makes sense to teach them about copywrite issues. I've heard many times in the classroom a students say"" Hey, that was my idea. Mr.B, they copied me!" To which I often reply..."it's ok, if they (the original producer) will let you use their idea". Without even thinking about it, I guess I really do support copywrites and permissions from the creator....No, not the Creator...although that couldn't hurt either. Mike B