Wk1 Blog Post 3, Comments to Michael Wood

Kristi's comments to Michael Wood's video

Michael

First of all, I loved the copyright glasses on your blog site. Very creative!

Comic inspiration by Kristi Swartz

I enjoyed your reflection on the comic strips you drew as a young person and how that led to a job for you later in life. (You inspired my photo using a comic strip theme in photo booth!) Anyway,

our students in contrast will use creative remixing to land jobs in communications or advertising in much the same way in the future. I know My 3 sons spend a lot of time drawing and creating on paper but spend just as much time altering and adapting works on the computer. Do they have a clue about copyright issues or infringement? Absolutely not!

Interesting to hear about your experience with high school students using and remixing images in your classroom. The fact that high students do not know copyright laws and are not held to strict standards in image use, does show our need as 21^st century teachers to change with the times and begin to spread the word about freeware and sites like Creative Commons. . In the elementary and upper elementary classrooms, students are just excited to find images they like, much less worry about their copyright. I feel it is important for students to be taught to use sites like Creative Commons, perhaps by making it easily accessible for students. Students must be taught early to credit sources in their works if our

Culture is ever to change.

Costly images are not the way of the future, perhaps what we need to do is have students begin to create more images to place on Creative Commons for use in new media. No time, of course no time, but perhaps A high school photography class could be a great place to begin to show students how to copyright their own images and share those images through sites like Creative Commons. Imagine how many creative high school students would be interested in taking interesting images. No question that times are changing, I remember spending a whole semester in high school learning to develop our own pictures! Not so today!! Not so today!  

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