Thank You!!

Thank you Jim Kasum for helping me to educate myself on the copyright law! This is one of those items that I knew existed but was never quite sure about all that it involved. At MATC there are all sorts of documents hanging in the copying room about the copyright law but they all use lawyer jargon. Almost everything that has been communicated to me about this law has been in lawyer jargon--I don’t understand the words of lawyers! I now feel more confident about how to use internet sites in my classroom, about what the fine text at the bottom of many web pages means, about what I can copy, download, and upload. When students fail to buy textbooks and ask me to copy parts of the books for them “until they can buy it”, I now know that I am totally on the right and legal track by saying no. I have created online courses never really knowing that I own them and have rights! I have created many worksheets and projects and I am thrilled to know that they are totally and legally mine. Some people may read this and think, “Where have you been??” I think there are many people who are in the same boat that I WAS in. Thanks again!