My Copyright Action Plan

The DESE website has an article titled “Copyright Applies to Everyone.” In this article I found three interesting tidbits that I did not know about copyright. The first one is that you can make a single copy of a poem to use for educational purposes. I would use this for my poetry unit to show my students different kinds of poetry. This could also be used for an author study; however I have noted that you cannot use more than three poems from an author; therefore my study would not be very intensive or I would have to secure my right to copy it. Another thing that I did not know is that when you are looking at something on the internet or TV and you want to use it in your classroom, you may use it the next day. This policy does not permit you to keep this information for long periods of time; you must immediately use it. I love this one! I will definitely be using that for current events and other interesting bits of knowledge that I acquire the night before my class. Lastly, and most importantly, teachers must secure permission to upload students work on to the internet. Students need to have privacy, and with the invention of social networks like Facebook, we forget to secure privacy sometimes. Instead I will secure permission or display my student’s work in the hallway or classroom. I intend to abide by these laws to the best of my ability, and to teach my students with the resources I have available.