Day 14: GAETI - Dr Lee and the Canvas LMS

Morning Session:
We began with Dr. Lee, Learning Canvas and Web2.0
Canvas is an interesting learning management system...and free.

We followed the Canvas session with a discussion on copyright law by the Library Staff.












The above picture is of me with a captured 1969 Dalek at the Torchwood Institue, Heathrow,
London, United Kingdom.


Many of the material used by teachers are covered by the Fair Use Act:

The "Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing United States Entrepreneurship Act of 2007" (FAIR USE Act) was a proposed United States copyright law that would have amended Title 17 of the U.S. Code, including portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to "promote innovation, to encourage the introduction of new technology, to enhance library preservation efforts, and to protect the fair use rights of consumers, and for other purposes. "The bill would prevent courts from holding companies financially liable for copyright infringement stemming from the use of their hardware or software, and proposes six permanent circumvention exemptions to the DMCA.

The bill was introduced March 22, 2013 in the 110th Congress by Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA). On March 19, 2007, the bill was referred to the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. 

Boucher emphasized that the bill would not make circumvention an act of fair use, but would instead redefine which acts qualify as permissible circumvention, stating that:

    “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material. The reintroduced legislation will assure that consumers who purchase digital media can enjoy a broad range of uses of the media for their own convenience in a way which does not infringe the copyright of the work.”

References:

110th Congress H.R. 1201

"Boucher's latest 'digital rights' bill," Stanford Law Center for Internet and Society.

The afternoon session was the Border Crossing Art Project and then continuing on the Flat Stanley Video Project. 

We followed the art project with excel game development and then moved on to Camtasia where we learned a valuable lesson about technology... Sometimes it does not work! We relocated to another lab with computers that would operate Camtasia, and then had another seires of technical difficulties whiile installing the Microphones Headsets.  Following this we blogged... See above.