Week 9 Reflections

Well other then my conclusion this is my last blog entry for EDU 5472, I can hardly contain my emotions ;)

This week the major focus was on the copyright licences that accompany the software when purchased. This was all reality new information for me and I’m glad I had the opportunity to learn this information before I am placed in a school.

My discussion post this week contains some of my thoughts for which I think is relevant.

I thought about all the software installed on my computer and which of that software I would still have a legitimate copyright licence for and unfortunately there were a lot where the copyright had expired or I never had an appropriate licence for.

So I’m not even going to mention how much it came to but let’s just say it wasn’t a small figure.

As I’m not in a school yet I have a question for all my peers here who have been teaching for many years. Is it common in schools for many educators and ICT personnel to ignore copyright issues and for them to just share and copy as they wish with out any regards for the licenses?

I ask this because some schools I have taught in have had a wide range of software which was installed on every computer in the school and to my knowledge these schools did not have a huge ICT budget. So now that I am thinking about the licensing I am thinking that their software set up could be a little dodgy.

Jeorge