Wednesday, August 5, 2009

copyrights

I’m so glad we had this lesson! I thought that I knew quite a bit about copyright like use quotations, give credit. And in some way I was right but before this lesson I didn’t realize how much risk I was in. While I was taking the quiz I had to laugh at myself. I kept getting questions wrong and it was never because I thought the person in question was doing something write but I always thought the person was doing something wrong. My whole view is “it’s better to be safe than sorry”. But if I hadn’t had this lesson can you imagine how much I would have held myself back. Now, I can teach to my fullest potential. Although, there are a few things I don’t understand I can say I understand a lot more. Bullying and proper social etiquette has always been a pet peeve. As a teacher you can only do so much to teach children the right things to do and the wrong things to do. It is sickening that parents don’t teach their children this or enforce it. What makes us think that all parents will teach their children how to behave properly on the internet? The fact is most won’t and that’s disturbing. It is our job as educators to teach children how to act online.