Posted by Deanna Christensen on Jun 29, 2015; 6:28pm
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/POST-4-Copyright-tp535p587.html

As a Para Educator in the classroom I really didn't have a good understanding of the Copyright laws. I knew if you used someone's quote or painting you had to give them credit. I now have a much better understanding of what's legal in the classroom.  This class explained the Fair use law and that AEA is a much safer, credible site.  As a para I will stress to the students that they need to use AEA online instead of Google.  Last year the English department did a whole section on copyright/ plagiarism with the students they had to research plagiarism from 3 sites, write a paragraph explaining it. Then they researched their topic for their report and had to explain why it was a credible site that they got their information from. Finally write their report in their "own" words.  This school year I will have a much better understanding of the copyright laws and will definitely be able to direct them correctly.  It is so great that AEA has done all this work for the students use whether it be written material such as news, books or videos, audios, or art work, pictures.