After reading the copyright article I am still rather confused about copyright law and its use in education. What I was able to glean from it is when in doubt, cite. However, while making my WebQuest I ran into difficulties in citing. Images are being used all over the internet that do not have proper citation. How then are we to find the origin of the image?
The general areas of behavior in Digital Citizenship should be something that is taught to students and posted in classrooms. Much of the behavior aligns with the Character Counts program or the philosophy of IB schools. Regardless of specific programs, these nine areas of behavior can be applied across the curriculum. In addition, faculties and other groups of both digital immigrants and digital natives should be taught these behaviors as manners are taught (or used to be!) - by those informed modeling appropriate behavior.
The GIMP tool is a great free resource, though it duplicates many of the tasks already available on my computer. Digital Photography did not reveal any new information to me as I have used a digital camera since they first came out almost ten years ago.
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Copyright can be confusing, but hopefully after our class session on this you have some additional insights on how to deal with it in regards to digital and other types of intellectual property.
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