In a recent blog post, Alice Keeler describes her experience when work she creates and produces is used without acknowledgement or permission. She states "I love when teachers utilize my resources with their students or in professional development workshops. Credit is always appreciated. However, republishing resources to a public blog without permission from the author is not nice and usually is not legal." (http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/01/19/digital-citizenship-please-do-not-publish/) This includes text, images, graphic content or audio that someone else has created. There are lots of ways to ensure your work is free from copyright infringement. Many people will post and share materials licensed under the Creative Commons. To recognize the author and link back to the work, if you are using a portion of the material under 'fair use', make sure links and captions are included in the content you are posting. Best of all, create content on your own and share under a Creative Commons licensing designation.
As you continue to develop your professional blog, consider what material you are posting, where it comes from, how it is licensed and if you have permission to use this content. The ability to screen capture and insert images is great, but could lead to bigger problems if you are not carefully linking, connecting, consuming and collecting digital content.
As you continue to develop your professional blog, consider what material you are posting, where it comes from, how it is licensed and if you have permission to use this content. The ability to screen capture and insert images is great, but could lead to bigger problems if you are not carefully linking, connecting, consuming and collecting digital content.