Videos watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=J1HI0i-Br4Y&t=3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzzkSZ0Jrko

Plagiarism: The video that I watched over plagiarism was surprisingly engaging

because it was basically a story about a college class. The professor assigned his

students to write a screenplay and introduced and elaborated on the subject of

plagiarism because he wanted to ensure that they would use their own work to

complete the assignment. Some students paid attention and retained everything he said

but others did not. After class the students shared their ideas about the different ways in

which they would complete the assignment and some were obviously going to violate

the plagiarism laws but they weren’t convinced of that until their professor graded their

assignments and asked to see a handful of his students after class. He told them that

their assignments violated the University’s academic integrity law and explained why.

The students suffered a number of consequences but they honestly deserved them and

consequently learned their lesson. To incorporate this in my future classroom, I think I

would definitely make an EdPuzzle out of this video because I liked it so much. If it was

able to entertain and engage me, I believe it would definitely do the same for my

students. I would follow this up with an engaging, interactive and detailed lesson over

everything that was covered in the EdPuzzle. Though I feel that my students could be

too young to understand the concept of plagiarism fully, it is a good idea to introduce it

to them while they’re young so when they’re old enough to write research papers they

know how to avoid plagiarising.

Copyright: The video that educated me on copyright was not as engaging as the one

over plagiarism because it wasn’t in the format of a story, but I still liked it because it
wasn’t too long and it gave me a good amount of information. The video starts out by

giving me reasons that I should know and care about copyright laws. It elaborates on

copyright, obviously, but also public domain and fair use. The video used language that

I could understand when they explained these topics and laws, which was very nice and

effective. It explained that you cannot use, modify, or publish anyone’s work without

their permission. Violating that means you committed copyright infringement which is

bad. I did not know this, but copyrights on things such as movies, music, or elements of

that nature, have copyrights that last for the creator’s lifetime plus about 70 years.

Although that is subject to change because the copyright laws can change and

publication dates vary, I thought that was extremely interesting. The only exception to

that, it clarified, were things in the public domain or things that qualified as fair use. If

something is in the public domain, it means that a particular work does not have any

copyright protection and that anyone can use it, modify it, or publish it without

permission. Fair use means you can use small portions of copyrighted work without

permission for certain types of use like teaching, news reporting, or criticism. Fair use

can get very tricky, though. To implement this information into my classroom and pass it

on to my future students, I would definitely have them watch a video like this or of

similar content just maybe a bit more engaging. Afterward, I think I would have them do

something like a kahoot or a quizizz to see how well they understood the information

and to engage them. Much like plagiarism, copyright may be hard for my younger

students to understand, but I know it is vital to introduce it to them at an early age and

that is how I would accomplish that.