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?
