Blogpost 3

Copyright is the infringement of the rights of other creators through the illegal use of their work without a license or specific permission to do so. As a content creator on YouTube and Instagram, I’m very familiar with this term. I have been copyrighted several times for using music by my favorite artists in my videos because I did not have the right or license or permission to use it, especially on YouTube where your channel can be monetized for commercial and monetary use and you can get money for content where you used someone else’s work.

Although I mainly try to steer clear of mainstream music in my vlogs and montages and tend to opt for lofi, no copyright music, there is a such thing as the fair use claim on YouTube. With the fair us claim, you can get said permission to use someone else’s content in your video. It’s a process I choose not to undergo but if you do go through it and get permission from the artist or specific creator to use the content so long as it’s not for profit, you can use it in your video and it is deemed as fair use. 

As a teacher, developing my own instructional materials, and having students create their own works, I would give permission for anyone attempting to use it for educational reasons but not for monetary gain, especially if I, myself, hadn’t created it with the intention to profit off of it.

This is also due to some issues that could arise with the use of technology in the classroom such as cyber bully and academic dishonesty. Having people have to get permission to use the work created by me or my students as well as cite it for fair use, it prevents people from copyrighting and plagiarizing my material or my student’s material and instead using it to create their own original content. Needing permission for use and reuse also adds a layer of protection to a students work from anyone attempting to use it to digitally attack the student online and lessens the chances of cyber bullying.

Newsletter Assignment:

From this assignment, I learned how to make a banner on Canva and insert it into a MS Word document as a title for the newsletter. I also got familiar with the use of WordArt to make my newsletter a little more visually appealing and attractive to look at. I was able to figure out how to use the column feature to split the body of my newsletter into two sides although I would like to find a way to do so in a more aesthetically pleasing way in the future, it came out looking a little tacky for me but it wasn’t too much of an eye sore.

I can use what I learned from this assignment to make newsletters every week about what we’ll be doing in class for parents to keep up with what their children are learning in my class and get involved in anything we have going on extra curricular at the school that week as well for supplemental learning.