This week we chatted about how teachers are content creators and what that means in terms of the resources we use from the internet, specifically related to copyright. I had heard mentions of the ability for teachers to use around 10% of a document if it is for education but I never really knew if that was true and how to ensure I was using things appropriately. So it was very helpful for me to learn about the Fair Dealing Act and Open Educational Resources (OERs) and how to find accessible and legally usable resources.

Learning about Creative Commons was a new topic for me. I never really considered or was concerned with how using photos from Google could be breaching copyright. I also never gave proper attributions on photos I used which looking back now I realize can be quite harmful to the online community. However, this was only ever for personal or school projects. I work off and on at a consignment store and my boss hired a social media manager who used photos off of Canva on the business’ Instagram. While I don’t know if this was technically against copyright because I believe the pictures on Canva are open source, there were no attributions and it definitely deceived our clients. We had multiple people commenting and inquiring about different items in the photos and instead of giving photo credit to Canva, they would just say ” the item has sold” when we never had that item in store. I feel like that is not an acceptable way to use that type of photo and makes me realize the importance of attribution even more. I think using something like this attribution builder will be very helpful.

For the screen cast video I found the set up to be pretty straightforward but the editing to be a little tedious. I am used to editing videos on my phone so using my laptop took some time to get used to and didn’t feel as natural. After doing all the set-up, recording my video, listening to my own voice for like 20 minutes and editing it, I did not feel up to trying to make it interactive this week. Perhaps I can go back and try that later.