How can a wiki help you?

 How can a Wiki Help You?

Wikis are easy and free to use and allow students to interact and edit and publish to create a fun and cohesive environment. Teachers like using Wiki because students are given  more control over a project’s outcome. You are encouraging them to be producers, rather than just consumers, of information. Teachers tend to lean to using the popular wiki sites Wikispaces.com, Wikidot.com and Pbworks.com and it's sometimes confused but can be used on google docs. Teachers are smart and have a pretty good idea of how to communicate and organize both students and people. It's kind of their job. Teachers have created some useful tips. There's a whole list so i'll just say most of it is pretty self explanatory if you are an adult or someone with a reading level above myself or any 5th grader. Set clear expectations, start small, ask for help, read other wikis, let the wiki work for you and collaborate. Other important things to note are how wikis can bring a good easy side to tough subjects that require basic info and needs to be distributed fast and easy. History, poetry, books, words, geography and tests. Now these are all things I've used wiki for including this blog post and lots of my classes. Wikis basically act as a mastery list for an entire field and can help students and educators see multiple viewpoints of a topic quickly. Wikis can be used as a crash course in many ways and most people rely on them for information even though it should be noted that the info can be misleading and sometimes not accurate since anyone is able to access them and edit the documents. 

 Blog 2 Copyright

Copywriting is the act of officially through legal and government channels of protecting the work that you produce to claim ownership of the material and protect your property. It's important though to understand what is and is not copyrighted. Works that are published before 1923 and works that were published between 1923 and 1978 are allowed for use. Works that are granted free persimmon for use by the owner can also be used. 

You can use material that falls under the fair use doctrine and wont need persimmon for its usage. This use was created for people to use for news, comedy, parody and research. The downside of this practice is the amount of lawsuits that occurred over the years. To use fair use there are guidelines that have to be followed by some legal and some industry standards. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes. The nature of the copyrighted work. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole. The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. Educators follow a set of rules as well. A chapter from a book, poem under 250 words, articles or essays under 2500 words, single chart, graph etc. You can't make multiple copies or use them over and over again. Similar rules apply to music and TV. Music can only be copied for emergency use and tv can be shown if downloaded properly and recorded in a legal manner.  

It's important to remember the internet is not a public domain, you can't just go ahead and use whatever is out there. A treaty is used to produce this property in the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. This is applied across countries and servers. Software falls under different categories as well and educators can use them if they follow the rules and the intentions it was meant for. Commercial software, Freeware and shareware. Chances are you won't get sued if you use somonelses photo unless you are earning economic product from it. Being face to face with you students helps get through some of the hump of what you can and can't use so invest in a projector. Using the service or material for educational purposes and what it's meant for. Overall teachers push the limits of what they use and take full advantage to help educate students for less. Remember though don't make a profit from this you can be held responsible still and don't just steal material. Follow the guidelines posted and make sure you do things ethically. Teach your students what's right and wrong and how to follow these best practices. 

 

What Is This Page for and Who am I

     Hi I'm William Derzaw,I am a teacher in the field of supply chain management and a operation manager for a foutrune 300 firm which specializes in all forms of cargo movement and transportation. I live at home in Fort Worth, Texas I am single and to young to get married so my life id dedicated to having fun and becoming an expert in my field of work. I am a big duck hunter and an avid fan of baseball and football. I also love my LSU tigers. I am a graduate of LSU 

    I created this page to teach and update y'all on he ever changing issues that we face everyday in the world of supply and cargo movement. We depend on material and products to be shipped everyday and with the current issues we are seeing its important to understand the subject so we can help get life back to normal.