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Yeah Team!
Back in the beginning of October, Christina Mallon, a teacher at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona, was placed on paid administrative leave for performing a cheerleading routine during one of her classes.
The performance was captured by a student on his camera phone video recorder, and the student subsequently uploaded the video to YouTube. The publicity eventually led to the teacher’s suspension/paid leave while the routine was (and continues to be) played and talked about in the media.
What I find most disgusting and amazing about the whole event has nothing at all to do with the teacher or the performance.
No one seems to care about the student’s behavior: he recorded the instructor without her consent, and unless he had his camera phone in plain view, he most likely violated the law.
If he did violate Arizona law by secretly taping his teacher, the moment he uploaded the video, he violated federal law.
But the student’s misconduct isn’t the issue, right?
Let’s imagine for a moment we were back in the stone ages—you know: that long-ago time before the every-one-has-one cell phone. For this event to have occurred, the same student would have had to carry a video camera to class, take it out, and point it at the teacher—an act that would have been a bit harder to hide even with the smallest of camcorders. And let’s not forget, YouTube was born in February 2005, so as we traveled back in time, the video never makes it to millions of viewers.
I wonder: does Williams Field High School have a student cell-phone policy in place? If they do, I’m willing to bet my last month’s paycheck the student who recorded the teacher violated that policy.
But let’s not worry about the student’s misconduct.
While watching the report, the comments of several parents struck me: in a nutshell, they each said if cheering was what it took to keep the students’ interest, then they were all for it. Yeah Team. By all means, let’s leave it up to the teacher to entertain the children while said children are in the classroom—after all, learning for learning’s sake is just plain boring.
Then there were the students who made comments describing the routine as “a waste of students’ educational time” and “immature,” and several who argued “teachers get paid to teach us [. . .] not to cheer” and who complained students “are here to learn.”
Now, I’m confused.
If the students are all for learning, why do educators have to devise ways to keep them engaged?
If the students are all for learning, why are they playing with their cell phones in the classroom?
One other thing concerns me profoundly, and it’s another issue no one is talking about: the inherent copyright protection for original work and performance.
Just because a teacher delivers a lecture or performance in a classroom does not mean the information and/or performance is unprotected. In many cases, the lectures, performance, handouts, and course materials of an instructor are considered “derivative works” and are copyright protected.
It is entirely possible the recording and posting of the performance in question violates United States copyright laws.
But I’m sure the student didn’t know that.
Let’s go smaller: posting what amounts to the instructor’s original work and performance is a violation of YouTube’s policy (emphasis below added):
6. Your User Submissions and Conduct
B. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouTube to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service.
I’m going out on a limb here: I don’t think the star of the show gave her okay to be uploaded and featured on YouTube.
My refusal to allow cell phones into my classroom is a subject of much debate among my students: given I would never cheer in my classroom, I wonder what my problem is?
January 12th, 2010 at 9:10 am
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:21 am
фантастика!…
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 am
“Прямо даже не верится”
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:47 pm
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February 22nd, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Спасибо огромное!
February 23rd, 2010 at 4:39 am
Интересно и позновательно, а будет еще что-то по этой теме?
February 23rd, 2010 at 7:48 am
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February 23rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
забавнo
February 23rd, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Красиво написано, мне понравилось.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:39 am
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February 24th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
мне нра) хорошая идея.
February 25th, 2010 at 5:03 am
Благодарю!
February 25th, 2010 at 10:44 am
спасибо! хороший пост! занесу ваш блог к себе в ридер
February 25th, 2010 at 11:07 am
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February 25th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Да, всё точно написано.
February 26th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Очень интересно!!! Только не очень могу понять как часто обновляется ваш блог?
February 26th, 2010 at 7:31 am
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February 26th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Смотришь на ваш пост и мысли неприличные в голову лезут…
February 26th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
А вы знаете, что свой ресурс можно продвигать статьями не только у себя на блоге, а ещё и публикуя их в специальных каталогах? Зайдите ко мне и посмотрите как это уже делают другие вебмастера. Напишите свою статью (можно взять за основу любой пост из этого блога) со ссылками и добавьте ко мне в каталог статей. ССылка на каталог у вас есть, ещё раз её указывать здесь не буду, ибо нет смысла. Регистрация по каталогам отмирает, ну или по крайней мере сдаёт свои позиции, а вот продвижение статьями набирает обороты.
February 26th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Забавно.
February 27th, 2010 at 6:16 am
Огромное вам пасибо! а еще посты на эту тему будут в будущем? Очень жду!
February 27th, 2010 at 9:45 am
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February 27th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Случайно увидел. Не ожидал.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:01 am
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February 28th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Ваш сайт в опере не очень то корректо показывается, а так все отлично! спасибки вам за умные мысли!
February 28th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Благодарствую, полезная вещь.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:01 am
“Прикольно”
March 1st, 2010 at 5:58 am
А Вы не задумывались о том, чтобы параллельно завести еще один блог, на смежную тему? У Вас неплохо получается
March 1st, 2010 at 10:21 am
Я отметила отлично
нацепила на голову тыкву и бегала по улице.
March 1st, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Спасибо за чудо))
March 1st, 2010 at 10:17 pm
“этот вне конкуренции”
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:02 am
Круто, что тут еще можно сказать.
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:14 am
дяяя….старая темка, но ми тут нету^^ даже если не по картинкам смотреть))) нету и фсё^_^
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:40 am
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March 2nd, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Не знаю как остальным, а мне понравилось.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:07 pm
“замечательные посты”
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:46 am
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March 3rd, 2010 at 10:11 am
Классно всё: и картинка ,и информация
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Очень интересно !
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Спасибо!, в цитатник!
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Very good news
March 4th, 2010 at 6:35 am
да,но это еще и не все…
March 4th, 2010 at 7:57 am
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March 4th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Чёрт возьми! Круто!Вы Сами ответили.Беру в цитник! Смысл жизни и всё остальное. Решено.Без шуток.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Смеяться не грешно, но признаваться в этом при чтении подобной информации по крайней мере удивило меня!:))
March 5th, 2010 at 5:09 am
Доброй Ночи. Только что по ОРТ показывали сериал 12. Каковы ваши ощущения ?
March 5th, 2010 at 9:49 am
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March 5th, 2010 at 11:14 am
попробуем понять между строк..
March 6th, 2010 at 4:12 am
На таких громких заголовках и подобной шумихе можно делать и не такие успехи
March 6th, 2010 at 11:28 am
ЕХ! какой старый боян!
March 6th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
фантастика!…
March 7th, 2010 at 1:22 am
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March 7th, 2010 at 6:00 am
Трогательно)
March 7th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
“Мне нравятся Ваши посты” Пишите побольше!
March 8th, 2010 at 5:33 am
Надежда на наслаждение почти так же приятна, как и само наслаждение. – У. Шекспир
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April 11th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
ну все равно истина где-то рядом. А за инфу отдельное спасибо. Кстати шаблон для блога взяли где то или креативили сами?
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April 29th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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