ETEC 424:Copyrights, Fair Use, Cyber bullying, and Netiquette

     This assignment for Week 5 has saturated my mind with copyright, fair use, cyber bullying, and netiquette information that will guide me for a lifetime. I haven’t covered every detail regarding these topics but what I have learned will help me to gain more knowledge in being smart and careful about what’s done on the net. An example of proper copyright use is that “Copyrighted material used in multimedia projects may remain in the student’s portfolio forever”. An example of fair use is “A teacher rents Gone with the Wind to show the burning of Atlanta scene to her class while studying the Civil War”. This is proper use of fair use. An example of Cyber bullying is attacking others online, by saying things that are hurtful, insulting or controversial. So with proper netiquette, cyber bullying can be totally abolished or put behind bars! Netiquette is teaching others to avoid hurting others feelings, respect for others online experience, if someone insults you, let it go, always respect the privacy of others, be responsible when you are online, and finally teach and help others be responsible and learn how to use the net…!   

     I have just touched the surface with these examples of Guidelines for being a responsible internet user. I feel that knowing these laws and rules will not add up to much if we keep them to ourselves. We must put these into practice and protect our loved ones, acquaintances, students and peers. Let us remember that these laws and rules and guidelines have been put together to protect people and even enrich them. In total, education benefits society, let’s use it correctly! 

"Copy Right Quiz" http://www.csus.edu/indiv/p/peachj/edte230/copyright/quiz.htm "Ms. Parry’s guide to correct online etiquette (Netiquette)" http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/kids/msparrysguidetonetiquette.html

September 28, 2011 6:14 PM

ETEC 424:Introduction-My First Blog 9/7/2011

      Good evening all. My name is Robert Wolfe, I am 49 and I’m currently a senior here at TAMU-Commerce. I am an All-Level Kinesiology major with plans to stay here long enough to get my Doctorate. I am a Student Assistant Coach for the Offensive Line here for the Lions and this makes my dream come true in the area of Coaching. I attended school here from 1980-1982 on a football scholarship where I was the starting Left Tackle for a Quarterback named Wade Wilson, who some of you might know is the Dallas Cowboys Quarterbacks Coach today.
      If I were teaching today, I would want to include every available type of software that was useful for me and my students. My most immediate concern is Coaching and when I was playing 28 years ago was if we had film to watch of the opposing team we had to use a reel to reel or 8mm. Today we have the privilege of using this new software called “Hudl”. We can email anyone involved with our team at anytime or we can watch film at anytime, as long as you have a computer you can almost do anything today. When we want to watch film of that weeks opponent all we have to do is have that team send us their video via the internet and pas that film on to anyone signed up with our Hudl site.  When I was in high school our biggest thrill was having a projector in our room and getting beeped by someone on our “beepers”. They didn’t have X-Box or Play Station, I-Pods, I-Pads, Cell Phones, Computers, Laptops, Notebooks, or Digital Cameras. So for those of you who don’t think that physical activity and the digital technology can’t go hand in hand are misinformed. When you discover the item called “Wii” or the add-on called “Connect”, you’ll see the ability I’m talking about.So, in my classroom I would find out every available kind of technology that was useful for my class and I'd teach everything so my students could have a large vault of tools to use in the real world.
     I have already had lots of reflection of my time here at TAMU-Commerce and I am really looking forward to learning everything from Web 2.0 and Digital Natives, Interactive Whiteboards, Web Searches, Web Quests, and anything Microsoft can produce. I want to be one of those teachers, coaches or administrators who are helping to transform the minds of our kids with today's and tomorrows technological power. Since we have been called to reflect here and see where we and technology have grown and progressed to, so will the kids we teach, they will be able to reflect and show someone else their new experiences they have learned, and we had a part as we shared in their lives. In effect, my goal is to gain a basic understanding of all this new technology I am learning in this class. I am enjoying learning how to blog, do an e portfolio, and seeing whats new in educational technology.        

ETEC 424: MAPping Assignment-Information Literacy

     I really enjoyed the assignment for this week which has been about search engines, researching websites, and information literacy. My literacy before this week has been good in my mind but I found out there is so much more to learn, apply and teach. I have been using Google, Dogpile, Yahoo, Ask, Answers, and Bing mostly for my questions about sites or classwork. The search engines and search techniques we learned this week has helped me immensely and I look forward to passing on my new found knowledge to anyone willing to lend an ear.  It has been so easy to assume that everything you are doing for class that requires internet usage is trustworthy, but user beware, there is a lot of spam, fakes, viruses, and plagiarism out there amidst the World Wide Web. So learn from my experience and never assume that the internet is above reproach. Do your homework and research the sites you use for their validity and reliability.

     When I finished my work for week 4 and finding out how important it was to acquire information on web sites and their validity in the areas of their author(s), bibliographies, and accuracy of its content, I had a whole new appreciation for my teacher Dr. Elaine. I look forward to making every aspect of my new knowledge transferable in my life as an Administrator. I did research on “Feline Reactions to Bearded Men” and to my surprise the accuracy of the article was right on target. I was cynical at first but through my research I became a believer in proving what you read. My habits from this point on will be changed and I will make it common practice anytime I do work on the internet whether it’s for class, research, or leisure.

     And finally, this week’s activity has opened my eyes to new information that I want to retain for a lifetime and share with any students that I teach. Knowledge is power and keeping it quiet loses its dynamic. Having different techniques about search engines, directories, blogs, URL’s (Uniform Resource Locator), finding the owner or publisher of a site, what extensions on a url means, whether a website is personal or educational or commercial and how each search engine categorizes its web sites will help anyone to be a much savvier internet user. Just knowing these techniques gives us the advantage over less knowledgeable, and makes us a valuable commodity in today’s job market. Let’s go show others how they can cash in!