Final reflection

I feel that the most important technology I have learned to use this semester is the creation of a website. Knowing how to do this is going to be greating for setting up a classroom and putting missed assignments on it so that students can make up their work. It will also be of use to parents because they can find out how to contact me. To engage the students in active learning I can create a wiki for my class. This way all of my students can collaborate on the "big" questions that I will ask them at the beginning of each semester.

Wiki Contribution

Here is the link to my wiki lesson plan and artifact
http://k12instructionaltechnology.wikispaces.com/page/edit/Cole+Nelson%27s+lesson+plan?responseToken=066b52222b2f64d1be77f609abf6ced0d

copyright assingment

I have posted a video about the War of 1812. As far as I can tell it is not done by a teacher or a student for educational purposes so it does not fall under the fair use program. So I will now examine it for copyright infringments or things they did well. First off no music was used so he was alright there. His video contained him narrating during a display of pictures. The pictures were well placed and I do not think they all came from the same place. Of course, I do not know this because he did not put any credits to site where the pictures came from or to artists credit for their work. This is the only infringment I could find in the video.

Copyright assignment

This is an assessment of the video that I posted concerning the revolutionary war. The description that came with the video said that the kid did it for an English class so that would put it under the fair use agreement. But assuming that it isn't under the fair use agreement the maker did a good job with not infringing on many copyright infractions. First off, the little Paul Revere video at the first did not last more than 3 minutes so it is okay. However, the maker did not site where this video clip was attained. The other video from "The Patriot" that played throughout was sited and it also did not last for longer than 3 minutes. The biggest problem I saw was with the music. The songs did last longer than 30 secs. They were sited. The pictures used also needed to be sited at the end of the clip.

Tech Project

I could not find an embed code on screencast.com so here is the link to my video. http://www.screencast.com/users/colenelson/folders/Jing/media/a8eb7d61-e6d6-4a53-9113-817685e775a5