Animoto

Hey again,
This week we got to play around with Animoto!
First check out my slide show, then we can talk more about Copyright




As you saw in my slide show the Mickey Mouse Curve is a huge issue with Copyright, if you aren't familiar with the Mickey Mouse curve, you can learn more here.  This week using Animoto contributed to my digital literacy by allowing me to experience how to properly cite copyright free work online!  Also this week we have been focusing our time on the issues of copyright. Copyright is a very tricky thing to have to deal with, after watching videos and reading articles about it, I am scared to write anything because I am scared that I may be infringing on other peoples thoughts. This makes me think of the millions of monkeys on millions of typewriters because simply based on the number of people in the world, it’s hard for me to imagine that my thoughts are “original”, in other words “everything is a remix” (Ferguson, 2012) After reading these previously assigned articles and watching specific videos my thoughts have been created based on these previous experiences of watching the same videos as the rest of the class.  The idea that there are a finite number of original thoughts comes to mind. Is this possible? Is the world limited to a number of original thoughts? Although this is an original thought, has it been thought of before? Luckily I can type this into Google, and I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be the first to do this. Which makes me think of Schrödinger’s cat…..Maybe we are limited in original thoughts, but only if we look to see if our thoughts have been thought of before.  I don’t even know if this string of thoughts is original any more.  Hope you enjoyed the video, and make sure you check out my reflection which will continue to look at copyright

Kevin