My initial idea for my project would be something involving copyright. This issue has always confused me a bit and I'd like to find out what is and what is not within legal rights. I have an interest in this for several reasons, but the main reason I'm interested in this is because of something I would like to do with my students, but I doubt I would be legal in doing so. The textbook series we use in Spanish, Prentice Hall's Realidades series comes with these hip hop songs, which are found in the public domain on the internet and allowed to be downloaded for free. I thought it would be a really neat idea to teach my students how to make music videos with these songs, with the lyrics at the bottom in karaoke style. I think it would be a really fun project for them. However, being the technologically inclined and sharing teacher I am, I would like for other classes to have the use of the music videos and would like to put them on youtube. I feel like this would be a violation of copyright, and therefore I am hesitant to assign this as a project. Thus my interest in researching what sort of things do and don't violate copyright laws.
A second idea for a project on Digital Citizenship might be something involving netiquette. Having grown up in the digital age I am comfortable with electronic mediums of communication, but it does bother me when people either do not know or do not adhere to polite internet protocol. It is so easy to publicly post text that cannot be retrieved, either through email, message boards, blogs, Facebook posts, or other sources. It would interest me to research proper netiquette in order to spread awareness of these protocols. Similarly, internet safety as regards things such as social networking sites is also of interest to me. I do use facebook and I post regularly to online forums, not to mention the email aspect of netiquette, and I have often seen things that made me cringe and wish the sender/poster had a better sense of proper protocol.
I am not sure which of these ideas appeals to me most at present, but I think either has a huge realm of possibilities and would be of personal interest to me.
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Marianne, I like your netiquette idea. I too am seeing more and more leniency toward what should be said and to whom it should be said to. It's almost like it is taken for granted. To me, email should be treated like a formal letter with the same protocols. I am also finding my students using the same abbreviated words in their writing and reflections. I told my husband recenlty, that it would be neat if their was an instructional video made on netiquette for him to give to his employees. So Good luck.
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ReplyDeleteI am not sure about a few things on the assignments. What is this Cool tools that we signed up for? I looked over the syllabus and there is one reference under the Assessment heading where it is valued at 20%.
Marianne, you have several good ideas. Your blog is a very straightforward stream of thought. The idea about music videos in the class is really great. It's very now, and the kids would probably eat it up, and have a blast. My only concern is the whole YouTube element. One, because they don't even have access to it at school, and two because some parents do not want their kids broadcast on the Internet, and you can get in big trouble. I know from experience. However the reverse side is that you may end up on CNN getting praised on how innovative you are, I've seen that too. It's a silly world we live in.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the kids could just make a podcast using the tools available through the school, or even make a movie using final cut etc here is a site I saw that showed that the class mad e geometry album it was really cool, click on the video it is short. It may springboard an idea or two.
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