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Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy 2012

Copyright or Copy Wrong: Navigating Copyright and Fair Use in Student Video Assignments

9:45-11:00 a.m.   Room 212

This session will explore some of the theory behind the use of new media in
the classroom and will explore some of the challenges we face, particularly
in regards to copyright and Fair Use laws, when allowing our students to
become producers of their own digital texts.

New Media Scholarship

The New London Group: Multiliteracies;“A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures”

Henry Jenkins: Convergence Culture : Where Old and New Media Collide

  • Media Convergence
  • Participatory Culture
  • YouTube & Social Networks

Daniel Anderson: “Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition

  • Consumer + Producer = Prosumer

Anne Wysocki et. al. : Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition

Cynthia Selfe et. al: Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers

Lights, Camera, Action: Navigating Copyright and Fair Use in Student Video Assignments

 

 

Solutions:

  • Encourage Students to Create Their Own Content
  • Explain and Explore Creative Commons, WikiMedia and Freeplay Music  and the like (Pretty Lights, NIN)
  • Collaborate with Resident Experts, Create Copyright Library Guides (Internet Archives, Prelinger Archives, YouTube Content, Government Archives)
  • DON’T PANIC: Know the rules and give y0ur students some breathing room

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