Tuesday, November 3, 2015

BBT 10- Assignment #2: Privacy Please

  • Digital textbooks should replace entirely paper textbooks by 2020 in New Brunswick.
 For: 
  1. I think they should be replaced for online access just in case if someone leaves their textbook at school they can go online and get their information.
  2. If parents want to see what their children are doing in school, they can go to the online textbook and see. 
  3. They will save trees and paper, we can send our old textbooks to people in the world who don't have enough money to buy them for their school. 
Against:
  1. If we replace the textbooks with onlines ones, some people don't have the access to get to a computer so they cant use that.
  2. The site could crash and there would be no "textbooks" available
  3.  Someone could easily hack the site and change anything they wanted to that site and then we wouldnt learn the stuff we are suppose to. 

  • Schools in 2020 should be closed and teachers and students should begin learning in virtual classrooms using digital technology at home.
For:
  1. I think it would be a good idea because then if you were sick you still wouldn't miss a day. 
  2. It would be helpful for people that are sick or in the hospital due to medical conditions. 
  3. They wouldnt have to cancel school for weather conditions either
Against:
  1. People wouldnt have the social factor they get from school
  2. They might not have a computer to actually get on the site
  3. People probably wouldn't bother logging on the online website. 

BBT 10 - Assignment #1: Copyright and Copy-wrong

  1. The Copyright Act provides that it is not copyright when dealing with work for the purposes of research, private study, criticism, review, news reporting, education, satire, and parody, provided the dealing is “fair.” 
  2. Up to 10% of another persons work can be copied under fair dealings.
  3. Copying multiple short excerpts from the same copyright-protected work is prohibited.
  4. Any fee charged by the educational institution for communicating or copying another persons copyrighted work without permission. 
  5. A teacher can copy in order to display a work protected by copyright. It allows the use of whiteboards and similar tools, overhead projection using a device like an LCD screen, opaque, or slide projector, provided the work is used for the purpose of education and training and is not already commercially available in a medium that is appropriate for this purpose.
  6. Teachers are not permitted to make a large-print book for a student with a perceptual disability without permission from the copyright owner. 
  7. Yes, you can play sound recordings and turn on televisions and radios in the classroom. As long as it takes place on the premises of an educational institution, it must be for educational or training purposes, it must not be for profit, it must take place before an audience consisting primarily of students of the educational institution, persons acting under its authority, or any person who is directly responsible for setting a curriculum for the educational institution, and it must not involve a “motive of gain.“
  8. Yes, students can perform a play and/or musical that is copyrighted, under the same five conditions as those cited for playing sound recordings, listening to the radio, or watching television listed in the answer to the previous question must be met before this users’ right applies.
  9. Schools cannot legally play music at their own dances and sporting events without getting permission because they are not permitted by the Copyright Act and therefore require permission and payment:.
  10. They key questions to use when figuring out if video and music is legal by staff and students are: • Did the music use occur during school hours? Will the student be graded on the activity involving the music use?  Does the music use involve a demonstration by a student or teacher for other students, teachers, assessors, or parents?  Is it reasonable to consider the music use to be for educational purposes? The phrase “educational purposes” is not defined in the Copyright Act but can be described as an activity that is planned and where the objective is for students to meet one or more subject or program outcomes. Was the music used on school premises?  If admission was controlled, was it free? Was the music use for a non-profit purpose?
  11. Students and teachers can use other's copyrighted and protected work to create NEW work under these conditions: It can only be used for non-commercial purposes. The original source must be mentioned, if it is reasonable to do so. The original work used to generate the content must have been acquired legally. The resulting user-generated content does not have a “substantial adverse effect” on the market for the original work.
  12.  Teachers can rent or purchase an audiovisual from a retail store, a copy borrowed from the library, a copy borrowed from a friend, and a YouTube video. Showing movies from subscription services in the classroom is governed by the terms of the agreement between the subscriber and the subscription service
  13. Teachers cannot copy a DVD or show at home and then show it in class. However, teachers can show a legally obtained copy in the classroom. A legally obtained copy includes a copy purchased or rented from a retail store, a copy borrowed from the library, a copy borrowed from a friend, and a YouTube video.
  14. Owners of legal copies of computer programs may make a single reproduction of these programs in only two situations: An owner of a legitimate copy of a computer program may backup one copy of that program and The person must be able to prove that the backup copy is erased as soon as he or she ceases to be the owner of the computer program from which the backup was made. AND an owner of a legitimate copy of a computer program may also make a single copy of that program by adapting, modifying, or converting the computer program or translating it into another computer language, as long as: the reproduction is essential for the compatibility of the program with a particular computer, the reproduction is solely for the person’s own use, and the copy is erased when the person ceases to be the owner of the copy of the program from which the copy was made.
  15. Teachers and students can save, download, and share publicly available Internet materials, as well as use that material in the classroom and communicate it to other students. 
  16. Any original work that is created by a student in the form of an essay, video or DVD, or a sound recording, Web site, or art work. The student has to authorize the further use of a student’s work, such as its use in a school publication, a teaching workshop, a student exemplar, or in a Web posting.
  17. Conners, Tyler(2015) How to Survive in Blackville High School. Blackville Between the Rivers. ISBN-13: 978- 1897071304, $46.88.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Journal Entry #7: Digital Access

I found it surprising how helpful Ecuador would be to New Brunswick. I found the information on Ecuador hard to locate. Yes because if their trying to use video chat with a family who is working far away you can still talk to them online. Kinda because you don't know who is going to get the information you post online... and i never really though about it. Yes because when you go to get a job they check all of your websites.Younger people post everything about them selves online so anybody could steal it.

Assignment #2: Privacy Please

Argument #1
No I don't think all of our medial records should be on-line-
  • Because its easier for identity theft.
  • Also because someone could erase it all.
Argument #2
Yes I thin k voting should be 100% on-line-
  • Because older people cant go to the voting checkpoints to vote.
  • Also because if people are in the hospital hurt its hard for them to get their to vote.
  • Another reason is because some people don't have their license to drive to the voting place.
Argument #3
Yes I think attendance an report cards should be on-line for parents-
  • Because kids might hide all of their report cards form their parents.
  • Also because if kids jig school parents can check on-line and find out.

Assignment #1: Open the Door to Ecuador



1. Certain sectors of the Ecuadorian government would like to become less dependent on natural resource extraction as a source of economic growth.  Instead, they are seeking to create a digital and knowledge based economy.  
2. The ICT stands for information communication technology.
3. The training program is based on a global computer literacy curriculum, which is being used by the Ecuadorian government to bridge the digital divide.