Fitzgibbon, Kathleen Teaching with Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts & More Teaching Resoiurces, 2010
Chapter 6: Audio
I have always been intrigued by Podcasts and MP3 recording in schools. I have looked at websites like WillowWeb's podcasts and marvel at their podcasting abilties at their school and the professionalism involved with it. The book I picked for this blog post was Teaching with Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts & More. More than anything, if I were to incorporate a web 2.0 into my classroom, it would be in a podcast. Listening to audio's such as a podcast can be a good way for students to increase their listening skills and could be used as homework for students. Audio files only require speakers, or earphones which is a fairly easy tool with compared to others such as using texting or a social networking site or blog site.
When thinking about podcasts, I believe it would be a really easy and creative way to be transformationative in compared to copyright. As the chapter states, when creating a podcast, a script must be written out. In this script students or the teacher can write material that is a critique or changes the material in a creative way so that it brings out a new emphasis on the material. Yes, putting in audio straight into the podcast or using background music will be against copyright. So the script is very important to making sure that the material is creative and transformationative.
E-Books are another that this chapter mentions. I don't especially like reading books online or on the computer but it is a new way or reading and students may prefer this way better than tangible books. Using E-books with MP3 would be a really good tool with students with learning disabilities or reading difficulties and they can follow along with the audio. Copyright would not necessarily be an issue with simply listening to MP3's or reading E-books since they generally are free. But probably printing E-Books out and reusing those in not a creative transformational way, would infringe on copyright.
It's very interesting now to look through the various web 2.0 strategies with new eyes on copyright. I hope I can become a teacher that looks to the transformational method and is actively encouraging my students on in the creative way.
You seem to have a very good sense of copyright applications. I am glad you are interested in doing some media projects with students as a means to foster the development of their creativity!
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