Copyright

  Discuss copyright for teachers. What surprised you? What ways have you observed copyright laws being violated in schools (no names, please. Just examples)? How about violations outside of the school environment? Is it your job to teach copyright respect to your students? How can you do this?

Copyright is a serious matter and many things regarding copyright had surprised me. For example,  here are the following things that surprised me about copyright:

• When the rapper made his version of the song 'Pretty Woman' he won the case because he had an absolutely different audience.
• That movies cannot be shown in schools without having a liscense and such only if it relates to the class 
• That unpublished work has a copyright term of the life of the author plus 70 yrs.

I have also many times have seen copyright laws being violated in schools:

• Teachers would show random popular movies right before winter break or spring break and the movies have nothing to do with the curriculum.
• I have had teachers make copies of chapters from books just to save money or the trouble of having to buy them.

Good and Bad electronic portfolios

good portfolio- http://www.kzoo.edu/pfolio/archive/example/jenks/home.htm
-This portfolio would be considered good because it has many colors and the design is very neat and organized as well as appealing. This portfolio looks like there was effort put into it. It also looks quite professional rather than having inappropriate pictures and such.
bad portfolio-  http://www.cesa8.k12.wi.us/teares/math/it/samplePort/JAMES/Jim%27s%20Index.htm
-This portfolio would be considered bad because the organization and set up is quite off. The colors are not very appealing and the the little character in the corner does not fit in well with the portfolio. This does not seem profession nor does it catch the eye.

Scenario: Video Project in my Classroom

Video Project Lesson

Content Area- Artists and style periods
Project- Students will create a short video with group members to re-enact the life of an artist from a particular art period. Students will have to research the lifestyle, culture, and politics during that time and also research the artist they are trying to portray. A research paper will be required from each student along with the video.
Age- 10th-12th grade

Preparations:

1.  Students will be assigned groups to work with
2. Students will have to borrow cameras from the media classroom and learn how to use the camera
3. Use 2 class periods to inform students how to use moviemaker
4. Have students get a storyline ready on the worksheet provided
5. Students should draw out scenes and write what will occur in each scene. Students should also include the dialogue and props on the worksheet.
6. Have students go to the library for one class and research their artist and the art period in which they were in.
7. Once Teacher has approved the storyline and has seen that students can appropriately handle camera have students look up video shooting tips
8. Students should then be able to begin shooting on school location during class time
9. Students may also shoot out of class time, but will have to check out the camera from the teacher
10. Students will be given a week and a half to finish shooting.
11. Once all groups have completed they will then begin the process on moviemaker
12. After all editing is done during class time students will then hand in their research papers
13. All students will then watch every group's video and give feedback and comments

Challenges

• having enough time for students to learn moviemaker
• responsibilities of cameras
• not many locations that can be used appropriately for filming
• some group members not getting a long

I think overall this video project would be very successful because its something fun and students can be very creative with their artists that each group has chosen, since they will be older highschool students not as many challenges should be present.

Group Video Project

Things that Worked Well

• angle perspectives
• music in background
• location
• keeping everything minimal
• no dialogue
• breaking up the scenes

Things that Could have been improved

• Lighting
• more than one background music
• more humor
• better camera zooming
• more visual interest

If I were to do this project again I would do many things differently. I would make sure we had a lot of practice before actually beginning the shooting. I would also make sure we get in all the scenes we want included. In the project that we did I know that we had to cut out a lot of scenes due to the requirement of the video being from 60-90 seconds. I would also maybe think of having some dialogue next time to keep the interest going throughout the video. I have taken with me many skills from completing this project. Here are some of the following skills I have learned from the project:

• how to shoot several scenes
• how to include music into scenes
• how to use moviemaker
• how to edit scenes
• how to include credits
• how to condense a scene

How to find a book in the Library EDU350 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8RcBsREo-w&feature=channel_video_title