Hello Readers,
Today we are going to talk about my High School class Introduction to Publications. We have done some amazing things in this class, the past two weeks. We have learned many things about grammar and coding for online websites, so that we could possibly one day make our own websites. I look forward to the next few years because the classes are amazing and I believe I will have much fun attending Gaston Early High School.
We went over many new terms the past few weeks, including, Copyright. Copyright is a law that protects a creator’s ownership of and control over the work he or she creates, requiring other people to get the creator’s permission before they copy, share, or perform that work. Creative Commons was another subject we went over in this class, it is a kind of copyright that makes it easy for people to copy, share, and build on someone’s creative work - as long as they give the creator credit for it. And lastly, Fair Use. This is the ability to use a small amount of someone's creative work without permission, but only in certain ways.
Schoology is one of the many online websites we view every day in this class. It is described as a Web 2.0 tool and is used as a way to help us do our work on time and successfully turn it in. There are some down sides while using this tool. One of them includes the Drop Box tool, sometimes the tool does not allow the format of document you may have typed your paper on. An upside to this tool makes it much easier to turn in your class work on time. This website over all makes school work much easier, other than the random notifications every time the teacher posts something, which at times is very helpful, get more of a bother to see than a relief.
A digital literacy component that we used is the rules of Fair Use, the rules help us understand how we can use the things we find on the internet. The rules are,
1. Use small amount (not the whole thing)
2. Rework and use the material in a different way from the original work. 3. Add new meaning to the material and make something new out of it.
4. Don.t use the material for profit.
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| Roberto Bustamante Taken on May 14, 2010 |
