My name is Beverly Wilson. I am a Norfolk Public Schools graduate, Old Dominion University Bachelor’s and Master’s graduate, and 20 year veteran teacher. I have taught fourth and fifth grade at the same school my entire career. I am beginning this program, so that I may have other options besides the classroom environment as I get older.
I am a wife and mother of 2 semi grown children. I married my high school sweetheart and we have been married for 23 years and counting. We have a daughter who will be a junior at Longwood University in the fall. We also have a son who is part of the 2020 Seniors who won’t get to graduate they way we all had the opportunity to do. He will be going into the HVAC trade upon his completion of school.
I never realized all of the laws involved in copyright laws. I had never really thought about it that much. I am guilty of showing videos as instruction, but more for entertainment. I felt I justified my showing of the videos with educational reasons, but obviously I was wrong. I had never thought of showing videos or copying excerpts of books as copyrighting if it was for my building/co workers. It really makes me think of all of the different in-services we have attended as educators who gave you copies of articles to read. One question that remains is what about the copyright laws of books we purchase as teachers to make copies for our students or sites like Teachers Pay Teachers?
I too am guilty of showing movies in class that were a reward or entertainment. I would guess that the majority of teachers have violated copyright law at some point, either with or without knowing it. The videos certainly were a surprise to me!
Great questions about the books you purchase that have those copy-able worksheets and also Teachers-pay-teachers. You should check carefully to see if the source gives you permission to make copies for your own classroom. Someone told me that if you are not granted that permission then you should be using those worksheets as models to create your own. It’s something to think about if you share materials you create, you might want to remember to provide a creative commons license to let others know how they can use your materials. I believe the Pixabay license is public domain which you can indicate with CC zero or spelling out Public Domain.
Your blog is looking great; I appreciate all of the ideas for using in your classroom and library.