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This scenario involves teachers and students uploading material onto a wiki or blog. Uploading material onto a blog or wiki involves two copyright activities; copying and communicating material.  ‘Communication’ of copyright material occurs where content is made available online.

There are special statutory licences and education exceptions in the Copyright Act which enable teachers to copy and communicate material on a wiki or blog. Students rely on different provisions known as ‘fair dealing exceptions’ when copying and communicating material for class and homework tasks.

Scenario 1: Creating a Discussion Forum

Linda, a HSC English teacher, creates a blog entry on yesterday’s classroom topic.
Linda then instructs the class to view her blog and write a critique of the text. Students access Linda’s blog finding the relevant blog post and write their critique by entering comments.

Linda then reads the comments to see who’s written their critiques and adds her opinions/evaluation as a new comment on the thread.

 

 

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