Thing #23

Creative Commons is something that will be very important to me, as a teacher.  It is important that you make sure you're not inadvertantly stealing someone else's work.  How can you discipline your students for plagiarizing or cheating when you, the teacher, have stolen someone else's idea for a worksheet, or class video, or what have you.  It is crucial that if you are going to use technology and the internet to enhance your lesson plans that you make sure you do it legally.  Even if it is something as small as inserting an image from a Google search into your PowerPoint presentation to make it a little more interesting, you still need to make sure that you are obtaining that image legally and that you are using it in the right way.  Teachers cannot ethically get on to students for cheating or plagiarizing when they themselves are essentially doing the same thing.  Teachers have to set the example.