Ethics

1. Common Sense Media (Cyber Smart Curriculum) : [] This website has units (including both on and offline lessons and student activity sheets, alignments to the ISTE standards, Home contacts to parents about the same information, web 2.0 activities and more!) for K-12 for the topics listed below. I can really see how this can be of use to teachers wanting to teach about internet safety to any age group. I thought this was a great find... would you use it?
 * Safety and Security online
 * Manners and Cybercitizenship
 * Cyberbullying
 * Digital Citizenship
 * Authentic Learning and Creativity
 * Research and Information Fluency
 * Twenty-first Century Challenges

2. BrainPop's video on digital etiquette (netiquette): [] - This website, very student friendly, has a cartoon man/robot talks about how to act on the internet, including cyberbullying, using humor on the internet without tone of voice, privacy, posting, and more. It also includes a quiz, term matching, QandA and more! BrainPop is a paid site, but this section is free, at least for now. So, I'd check it out!

3. ([] and [] and []) about a band who used images posted online without author's permission. One such photographer asked it to be taken down, but a member of the band said that if it was online, it's free game. So, the photographer took legal action. Haven't found update as to where it is in the court system, or even if it has been settled--but the image is still in the online version of the video (link below). The video, a spoof of web 2.0 tools and creators, is set to the tune of "We didn't Start the Fire" (a couple of lines not appropriate to be shown in school setting, but not too bad). This is an important lesson for all about remembering to use appropriate images. Although we may not be able to use the actual video in schools, we could use this story for an example of the seriousness of the issue. "This is what could happen if..."

I did have a question, though... If he listed the reference under the video, does he have the right to use the tune as well???

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4. Additional Post: [] I don't currently use Pinterest, and I'm not sure if it is being used in the classroom, but this blog article noted some of the copy-right issues associated with the site, including this quote:  "Kowalski noted the apparent contradiction contained in Pinterest’s suggested etiquette  (at least at the time) that discouraged self-promotion (i.e. pinning your own content): if pinning your own content was discouraged, you could only pin content created by others, creating a potential copyright problem. (Note: my recent review of the etiquette suggestions revealed no such restrictions.)"

I was curious how Pinterest became known to be a copyright-trouble site, when other sites allow for the same copy-and-past of copyrighted material! Of course, I always thought that of YouTube until I saw how they scan through each video from our readings/watchings for this week. I think it is great that people are becoming more aware of what is legally correct - or does this just confuse the masses even more?