THE
TECHNICALITIES OF LEGALITIES:
Grade level:
Graduate
Lesson Designer:
Dottie Myatt,
Ed.D.
ISTE/NCATE Standard: Personal and
Professional Use of Technology. Candidates will apply tools
for enhancing their own professional growth and productivity.
They will use technology in communicating, collaborating,
conducting research, and solving problems. In addition, they
will plan and participate in activities that encourage
lifelong learning and will promote equitable, ethical, and
legal use of computer/technology resources.
Materials Needed: One computer per group;
Excel; PowerPoint
Duration of learning web:
1/2 day
Scaffolding Activities:
Students in this class have basic computer skills required to complete
assignments and activities that are part of the class. This learning
web will utilize Excel and PowerPoint.
Adaptations: Graduate
students are placed in dyads based on the area of endorsement held
by or being sought by each teacher and level of computer proficiency.
This design will afford the students the opportunity to share expertise in
computer skills.
Statement of
the Problem: Research by Barnes (2005) indicated that 62%
of teachers stated that they had illegally copied or installed
educational software. What can we, as professional educators, do
about this problem?
Here
are your directions:
- Select at least 3
websites from the list given below under Websites. Find four or five facts
that relate to each of the following topics: software copyright laws,
software piracy. and software purchasing agreements. You will have a
total of 12-15 facts. (comprehension)
- Enter
the paraphrased facts on an Excel spreadsheet according to topic
(copyright laws, software piracy, software purchasing
agreements), the fact, and the URL
of the source. See example of spreadsheet below. Every row of the
spreadsheet will have text in all three columns. (application, synthesis)
- When all data is in
one spreadsheet, sort
the data according to the topic so that all facts about each of the
three topics are together.
- Combine
the information into a PowerPoint presentation consisting
of only five slides (1 title slide, 3 slides that give
the facts relating to each topic, and 1 slide with
suggestions of what you can do about the problem). (analysis, synthesis,
evaluation)
An example of the format
for the spreadsheet is given below before the information is sorted according to
the topic. Every row will have text in all three columns. The final
spreadsheet will have all facts for each topic grouped together.
Websites:
US Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/
The Copyright Website http://www.benedict.com
The Copyright Website: Software Issues
http://www.benedict.com/digital/software/software.htm
Union University: Computing Services http://www.uu.edu/computing/aup.htm
AN ACT To amend Tennessee
Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14, part 6, relative to computer offenses http://www.uu.edu/computing/tncrime.htm
Softwaremag.com
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_1/m0SMG/n1_v18/20226748/p1/article.jhtml
Technology and Learning
http://www.mediafestival.org/copyright_chart.pdf
The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST)
www.fast.org.uk/
Business Software Alliance
http://www.bsa.org/usa/
Reed, Mary Hutchings, Computer Software:
Copyright and Licensing Considerations for Schools and Libraries.
ERIC Digest.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Home_page then search by
ERIC # then ed308856
Lesisko, Lee James. Analyzing Software Piracy in Education.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Home_page then search by
ERIC # then ed482245
Center for Teaching and Learning, Computer
Software: Copyright Issues
http://www.wmich.edu/library/services/faculty/copyright.php
Assessment: The Rubric for Assessing the
Technicalities of Legalities that
is available on the class website
All animations (and more) are available at
http://www.animationfactory.com