Week 2 Reading-The Art of Possibility

When I first looked at the book, I thought, oh, no, it's one of those positive thinking books.  Being unemployed, and other such tragedies in the past two years, I just rolled my eyes.

Chapter three, here was where I found something that I could relate to.  I have been a musician in high school and college, playing 2nd and 3rd clarinet no less, so I have been in the place of the second fiddle.  It also brought back memories of one of my favorite concerts.  We didn't do Mahler, but the 1812 Overture and the Stars and Stripes Forever.  It started out with wrong notes, lots of practice and by the time of the concert, music.  We no longer just played notes and followed dynamics-we performed music!


I also thought about the letter that Ben Zander asked his students to write.  i would write mine looking toward graduation from Full Sail:  It might go a little like this:

Dear Dr. Ludgate:


I received my grade A because I worked hard and tried many new things.  Your Course Directors inspired me to make movies, play games and learn about Web 2.0  I will probably never quite learning, there are so many things out there that I could learn about.


 I may never teach in a classroom, but I may be able to inspire those who do teach.  My contribution is to change the world in my little corner and it is because of Full Sail, that I have been able to take chances and learn new things.

Week 1-Comment on Danielle's posting

colbys said...

I totally agree with this feeling. I too am having trouble comprehending what is going to happen in the next few months. I am not sure that my work is presentation worthy, nor publishable. I too tremble at the thought of presenting this at a conference.


After graduation there is always the abyss of what do I do now? After this journey it will be interesting to see how everything pans out. I will be hoping that somewhere, somehow, everything will work out.

This is an excerpt from Danielle Mile's commentary on the publishing/leadership project, where she shares her feelings.

As I consider the possibilities that lay ahead and for which the plans will be built in the month ahead, I am stuck in a mud puddle of trepidation to say the least.  As I try to dismantle the feelings that have me stuck, I believe there are many issues to mentally and emotionally approach.  We are being asked to formally write up a proposal based on our Action Research Projects (ARPs) and submit them to conventions or conferences with the “hopes” (and I use that term lightly) that we will be accepted to present our findings to our colleagues.

Week 1 comment on Mark Coppins copyright issues

Sandie Colby

I agree with you Mark.  Kids these days think nothing of downloading or pirating movies, music or video games.  They think that not only is it fair game if it is on the internet, it is free to use by anyone else.  I guess I am the only one that is shocked that people take things that are not theirs and remix it or change it and think that it is being creative.  What about all of those people who spend hours upon hours coming up with something new?

More and more people are going to run into copyright problems as they continue to steal other's works.

Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 01:30 PM

Here is what Mark said about copyright.


I always find that copyright and copyright issues are such a gray area for most people especially students. There are so many myths out there about what can or cannot be used legally. This became even more confusing with the emergence of the internet. Suddenly information and media became available to everyone. Not only did it become available, in most cases it was unregulated. Being unregulated and accessible to many meant that it was free to use. The common mentality was and still is in many cases is that if it is posted on the internet, it is fair to use it however a person feels. To exacerbate the situation, services

such as Napster threw everything into chaos. Young children grew up downloading and sharing music and thought nothing of it. It was their right and since everyone was doing it, it was OK. This permeated their thought processes, and downloading intellectual property for free became a common and accepted practice. Now this generation will have to come to grips with the reality of copyright. I also feel that copyright laws and current structures for acquiring copyrights will have to change. The system will need to evolve to a point where acquiring permissions and paying a fair price for use of copyrighted material is palatable for the end user. If it is not a hassle and the price is right, I feel that people will be willing to follow the laws. I also think that the laws need to be clearer and more specific. Fair use in education needs to be very clear without any gray areas.

Week 1-Copyright Issues

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Week 1- Reading/Videos

Copyright

This has been a topic of discussion throughout my education on the Master’s level.  Partly because one of my certifications was in the Educational Media field, otherwise known as learning to be a media specialist.  As a media specialist we work with all types of media but especially print and it is part of our Teaching Standards to teach copyright and plagiarism. 

So I have learned about Fair Use- at one time a person could only use 10% of a work to be considered to be fair use.  It may have changed.  I do remember that Fair Use is for teaching, news reporting, critical comment and parody.  It also depends on “the nature of the work, amount borrowed and whether or not it has a commercial impact” (from the video on Fair use).

I did enjoy the Fairy Tale using the different Disney movies.  My first thought after viewing it was whether or not the filmmaker asked to use the different Disney films, as from my experience, Disney is quite protective of their images. 

I did question the new “remix” culture and wonder how they could get away with it.  The other people that threaten copyright infringement is the Beatles, so my wondering about Dangermouses’ Grey album, is that if the Beatles found out, would they prosecute?  Unfortunately two of the four Beatles are dead, but their record company is protective of what they own.  Apple Computers had to make promises to Apple Records in order to even use the “Apple” name.  How much more protective the Beatles would be in order to protect “The White Album”.

If you noticed, most of the people involved in the remix culture are under 30.  They think nothing of taking someone else’s work and pirating it or borrowing it and changing it.  It appalled me that those Swedish folks thought that pirating our works was ok.  It surprised me too that the Russians also have a lot of pirated material.

Something else that stood out to me was the claim that the music produced by the techno producer was that the money was not being made by record production but by the shows that were being held by the producer to play the music.  In America, the record companies do make money from the artist, and many artists have shows, but the artist still makes money from records.   I am not sure if the current business model for the music industry actually makes sense.  I am in wonderment at those who can produce original music on a regular basis.

There have been issues when someone takes some music and claims it to be their own.  At least one lawsuit has been brought about when part of a song belonging to one artist is being used by another artist. 

If you listen to Brad Paisley’s newest song “This is country music” where he uses different country songs, there is about five to ten words from the song he is borrowing.  He also borrows some of the music.

The third part of the videos was also quite informative.  Not only did it explain more about the remix culture, the fact that young people would rather remix some old stuff than create new, it also explained more about Creative commons.

Creative Commons has been a source for images for previous work, although I prefer in many cases to use my own graphic images.  I will on occasion use that which is copyright free from either morgue file.com or other free sites.

Week 1-Wimba

 

Week 1 Wimba notes

The first Wimba of the month is always awe-inspiring and this month was no exception.  There is a lot for me to do this month as I play catch-up with my AR project.  I may just as well resign myself into making this a two-month class.

There was a lot of information to pass along, Joe’s contact information, how FSO is going to work, and the teacher’s expectations.  I am very intrigued on how the alternate site will help as I have already used it.  Obtaining information from the dashboard has proven to be somewhat difficult, as I have had to close out and reenter several times just to be able to view the videos and obtain the information that was needed.  (It may have been my poor connection at the time as well).

In these next two months (11 and 12) everything that we have been working on culminates in the ending of the AR project.  There is the final literature review, the website, the abstract and the publishing/leadership project.

This has frightened me a bit, as I really don’t like blowing my own trumpet.  I prefer to stay in the background and don’t tend to share within a group.  I had never thought about publishing or presenting (ever).  I am not sure that sharing what I have learned will help anyone. 

Right now, I need to focus on completing my AR cycles so I have some data to work with.  This will required that I focus on what I need to do so that I can finish my AR website.

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I am now in my 11th month of Full Sail University.  This is the blog that I will use for this class.

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I am semi finished with the Master's paper, although I will be doing a large amount of re writing and in that phase right now.

Am now in EDE, not sure what is going on, had some things to finish and got behind fast.  Hopefully, will be able to put together my parts as soon as I can.