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This week we talked more about FIPPA and its role in the classroom. In particular, I remember talking about looking at our online footprint. This week, I decided to google my name and see what comes up. As you can see, none of the results came up with information on me. I think this is good since, from what I can tell, it would be harder for a manager, staff, or student to find unwanted information on my life. We also learned about FIPPA and teaching it to our students and I think that is so important because, when I was on my Wednesday visit, a lot of the students were talking about their TikTok accounts but they might not have known about the risk of having a public account.
We also learned about copyright and finding good resources for our classrooms. I learned that the creative commons license allows certain materials to be shared with the class, as long as we follow the rules. There are certain restrictions to ensure that teachers are not plagiarizing full books or research. We also learned about how everything that has been created has copyright. This is great since when I become a teacher, it will protect my resources from being stolen. Another thing is that anything from the internet can be shared with the class, they just cannot be distributed and copied. This is interesting since when I was in high school, I remember teachers taking worksheets and questions off the internet and distributing them to us. I am now wondering if that would have been acceptable under copyright.
I still have a lot to learn around copyright and privacy but I am slowly learning. I am still a little nervous about using resources in my own class, but hopefully throughout the next couple weeks I will be able to learn more about the different sections of copyright to be more confident in using it in the future.