WHAAAAAT?!
Make sure you read the article FIRST, because where I was reeling when I read the headline... the teacher was not acting as a facilitator to her students. Instead she posted mistakes her student's made on her Facebook page and made fun of them. Not. Cool. (Although yes, I do understand where as a teacher things said and written by students can be funny and cute. However, as the article does state, use common sense people!!)
What I did find was this teacher's website where he posts his student's work. Education World wrote an article about it, saying that he did not have any push back from anyone yet on posting these.
What if you don't have your own website or cannot post ALL of your student's work to your website?
Here is a blog that discusses just that! They suggested a couple different sites:
Edublogs which is used by this class
Wikispaces which is used by this class
What I did notice was that the student's privacy was protected by just using their first names, but how is their intellectual property being protected? When I tried to get student work that had been posted I found that I could not unless I had logged in. To me, this seems like a very astute way to protect intellectual property and that each student had their own blog/ site that credited them with the authorship and ownership of their work.
I'm pondering as to whether or not to do this with the musical works my student's make. Would it be better to password protect? But then how would everyone know that it is their work?
A photographer friend of mine (shout out to Mrs. Erica Abbey-Hamilton!) copyrights her photos with a little watermark so that people cannot steal and use her photos illegally or without consent. With written music I believe I could do this, but what about sound recordings?
Any suggestions?
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