I feel like I have learned so much since last week! I suddenly have a functioning website (how cool is that!) and have realized that there are a lot of rules that come along with that. One of these topics was copyright. From what I understand, having a copyright on something means that you have the power to authorize who uses it.
“Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of intellectual property. In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that the original creators of products and anyone they give authorization to are the only ones with the exclusive right to reproduce the work.”
investopedia.com
Based on what we have covered in class, I feel that I fit into the k-12 category that didn’t have any kind of awareness about copyright. The extent of my schooling in technology goes as far as video making and tux paint. I feel like these first two weeks have been eye-opening for me about what I perceive technology class as. Before this class, I felt out of the loop with what skills I had on a computer but with each class, I’m gaining more and more confidence.
The other topic I want to discuss this week is FIPPA, Privacy, and Consent Resources. Like I mentioned above, I don’t know much about technology and I think, for me at least, with that comes worry about privacy. This may be due to my mother drilling into my head that anything I opened online would give my computer a virus. With that being said, privacy is something I’m in the dark about. This week’s class was super interesting as I had never thought about individual school districts having different processes about media laws. Now knowing that as new teachers we must be aware of and follow OIPC, FIPPA, and the Cloud Computing Guidelines, I am so glad I am taking a course that educates me on what I need to know about technology going into this profession.
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