Day 2 on mentor training answers a few more questions – but there’s still no scones.
- There is a simple survey creator – but you can’t export the data. Hmm.
- There is a text editor, but you can’t copy and paste. Right….
- You can drag and drop on a PC, but not on a Mac. Sorry??????????
Today we also have a session on Intellectual Property Rights, which starts with a little quiz on copyright. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
OK, this is where the librarian has a real opportunity to look thick. Fortunately, I only get one wrong, and that’s me being over-cautious.
Q: Can you copyright an idea?
and I said yes, thinking of ideas written down. D’oh!
Only at the end of the day does one of the trainers approach me, saying that if she’d realised my job, I’d have played a larger role at the start, and why didn’t I get full marks? That’s why I didn’t advertise it.
In the meantime, another trainee has commented on the difficulties that copyright law causes pupils, using the examples of Creative Commons and GNU licensing.
Why can’t we have a simplified licence for all schools – if you choose one of the following licences for your work, this allows schools to use your work with the following style of attribution …. It would be a huge step forward for getting pupils to actually learn to acknowledge someone else’s work.
I might have just stolen someone else’s idea there - not sure if I said it first, or if he did.
We have fun later playing with ideas for a Glow group, pulling in two primary teachers, a secondary History teacher and me. Our idea is to look aty WW2, pulling in the Clydebank Blitz (one of the primary’s is looking at evacuation, the other is studying Glasgow). We make plans for adding hotspots to photos from the Luftwaffe archives, links to good websites we know, video conferencing to the People’s Palace, discussion boards of tales from great-grandparents, video clips of evacuees, another discussion board for Carrie’s War or Goodnight Mr Tom, and so on, and so on. It quickly dissolves into us all sharing good resources and good ideas and starting to pull our schools a little closer together. It’s a good way to finish up, because we’re all starting to feel a bit weary now.
At the end of the day, we all get a nice badge which says “glowing”.
It doesn’t glow.
After a very busy couple of days I’m feeling a little dim myself.
