Copyright and Safety

This week's topics brought a few interesting things to the surface that I was happy to be reminded or informed of.  The first is that even though I am working with a younger group of students and on school computers with filters and blockers, I still need to share some of the safety and privacy information with my students so they really understand why they need to be careful while they are on the Internet.  Since most of our activities in the lab are guided and focused, it doesn't take much for them to end up somewhere else.  

I also found it interesting to learn a little more about copyright.  This can be quite an in-depth topic and one that I don't know much about.  One point that I really found interesting was that most creators don't necessarily want the full and complete protection that copyright can give them.  They want overall credit and control, but also want to share their work with others and allow them to use it in appropriate ways and even for some modification to be allowed in certain circumstances.  

A New Beginning

With each new class that starts, I continue to feel a little more comfort and confidence with understanding and handling the work.  Now that we are into the 4th course of the program, it is becoming more and more obvious on how they build on each other.  Seeing the connections and having more background knowledge with concepts than I had with some of the other courses or topics makes it easier and easier to start applying the ideas to my own classroom and life.  Some of the topics that we will be covering this course will be really helpful with my younger age students.