Copyright in schools is proving to be very frustrating for me. I have a really hard time accepting that it's not okay to copy materials when it's in the students best interest to copy the materials. I guess I've just approached education for a student centered view for so long that it's difficult for me to break away form that view and recognize that sometimes we just can't give students what they need if there isn't the money for it.
Another thing that bothers my about it is that I REALLY don't want to be the copyright police in my school. I feel like in most of the schools I have been in, there's already an attitude that the librarian isn't really one of the teachers. I can't imagine that teachers who have been copying workbooks for years would take kindly to the librarian who is telling them that it's illegal and that they should stop. I guess I'll do it if I have to, but I'm going to hang my hopes for now on the possibility that the principal will handle these matters.
Finally, I started using GoogleDocs this week and I really like it. I think that I might start typing all my papers there instead of in Word because they are accesible from any computer. I'm interested to see how it works when someone else edits the document.
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