Vo-tech for the digital age: Podcasting 101

Schools and podcasting, possible dangers: ZDnet Editor,

One thing that k-12 schools are going to have to take into very serious consideration is the exposure that their students are going to get by being "dumped" into the internet. I know that seems like an oxymoron with the advent of such notorious services such as MySpace and CherryTap and others, but school districts are going to have to be aware of something that is "sponsored" by them, whether in a class or not.

The other major issue is that fair-use only extends to public schools "in the classroom" so when they take their podcasts and "photobucket" vidcasts outside the educational envirnoment by subjecting these things to the internet the fair-use cloak will be removed and the schools themselves will become liable for any possible media-induced copyright infringement the students might make.

That being said, I applaud any efforts by any teacher that is going to actually teach something technologically functional and current. Students need not be led by teachers mired in the technologies of 10 years ago. Kudos!

J. Pisano -MUSicTECHnology.net
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