Weekly Report & Reflection Post #10

Hey everyone,

Week 10 activities are done. This week I got to explore Copyrights and Creative Commons.  To be a responsible digital citizen I feel that knowing the laws for the online world are important.  I used to think that when things were copyrighted as long as I cited the source of where I got my information, pictures from I would be fine. However, I have come to learn that there is a vast difference between what I was doing and the variety of laws that exist.  I had no clue what creative commons were before this week started.  I have now come to realize that creative commons and copyrights are two very different things.  Creative commons allow the user to take an image, or music and modify it for their own purposes while still giving credit to the person who created it. 

Online presentation Tools

After learning about creative commons and copyrights I got to play around with a variety of online tools where presentations could be made.  I have used Prezi in the past for a group presentation, so I decided to explore a different one this time around.  I explored Animoto, this tool is super interesting in the fact that it has a database of creative common material that can be used in the presentation.  A variety of images, music, and text slides will appear in the set sequence that is decided by the user.  The one thing that I found could not be changed was the length of time that was spent on each image, because certain parts I would have liked to have a longer pause on so the viewer could read what was being presented.

Have a great night!

Aarti