Reflection on Interactivity #5

Interactivity #5

The adjustments I made to my lesson was adding computer software: adobe photoshop, as a technology and placing it under student centered strategies: Production. I am accommodating my lesson for copyright and fair use in a few ways. For digital cameras there is really no copyright materials besides making sure to get permission while taking photos of people. That is not even a law, that is just to avoid conflict and arguments. Another way to deal with this is distributing a paper to the class that they can show whoever is around while they are taking pictures. The paper can be a written statement that this is for a class assignment and not for a social website like facebook. For computers and Internet there are a few guidelines students must follow to ensure no copyright infringement. As an educator you must make sure that the photographs and images students are using are not in a copyright collection. Students' also cannot take more than five images from one artist. This will take a time adjustment for the lesson because the teacher will have to go through all the students images to make sure that there is no copyright ownership on any images. When students are on the internet they may download images for a project, so there are no adjustments there. For computer software such as adobe photoshop that the students are using there will be a need for extra time to make sure all the computers attached are allowed to have photoshop distributed. Students can also copyright their own photos to make sure that others do not steal their work. This will also take time to show each student how to do this. The amount of media used will have to fall in the fair use guidelines because students will only be able to use five images from one artist, and they have to make sure they other images they use are not copyrighted. The Artsonia website has many rules to follow when creating a portfolio for your students. Photographs of children under the age of 18 are not allowed to be posted even if it is of yourself. Students under the age of 18 will not be able to use any of their photos for the Artsonia portfolio. I may have to alter this part of the lesson for them. I will most likely ask the class as a group if they want to include pictures of people in their collage? If so they cannot make a online portfolio. They will have the option of presenting it to the class in person instead.

Although the lesson I used was not modified to an extreme there are a few important things that teachers must make sure they do after reviewing the fair use for educators. These guidelines were very useful to me because a lot of technologies used in art class have to do with viewing images on the internet. Copyrighted images can be a huge problem if you don't look to make sure that they are not in a copyright collection. It is a simple thing you can do to make sure you are not doing anything illegal. I think the lesson I chose is instructionally creative because it gives students' the chance to express a place that means a lot to them, and they can take their own photos or use images that they find on the internet. After reviewing what I need to do to make sure my lesson falls in the fair use category, I realize that a lot of time will need to be spent going over what my students are finding on the internet and what they are putting on the Artsonia website.