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My Animoto adventure...

    After exploring many of the suggested presentation tools I decided to use Animoto!  Now… even though there were so many amazing features on Prezi that appealed to my personal preferences and educational needs, Animoto trumped that system.  I just preferred the addition of music and video likeness Animoto has while viewing the slide show once completed. 

      This lesson and exploring process was enormously beneficial because now I ultimately have a deeper understanding and knowledge of what the word "copyright" really means.  Copyrights to an item basically means you can protect your own works and as digital citizens we must respect this by not plagiarizing others innovative works (Noel & Snel, 2012).  This lesson has taught me that I must dig deeper into the digital ownership of items such as photo's, video's, art, literacy, and even music, especially before re-posting them on the Internet.  I also learned that there are safe ways to retrieve and use information or items found on the 2.0 Web.

    Creative Commons is a fantastic website that provides free copyright licenses for its users.  It allows individuals that produce a variety of works to decide what rights they want to reserve or wave.  This website has an incredible search engine that contains multiple ways to search for images, videos or other works needed. It additionally provides copyright details of the particular item you may want to use, and what stipulations may have been placed on an image in order for it to be freely reused.  The copyright information available is in a very simple format and easy to comprehend.  It was also great to learn that “fair dealing” is why teachers and students can use others original works for educational purposes; however we still must understand the restrictions that may be placed on the item (Noel & Snel, 2012).  Below is my produced and published slide show.  It's a little longer than 30 seconds nonetheless I think you will enjoy it.  Animoto gets a 5 star rating from me!

Take care,

Alex

Reschke, A. ©(2015)




CMEC (2012). Copyrights Matters! Some Key Questions & Answers for Teachers. Retrieved from http://www.cmec.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/291/Copyright_Matters.pdf