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Creative Commons portion of the class was very intriguing. I found myself looking back at my past assignments and wondering if I even considered copyrights such as the one discussed in the Copyright lab. I have always believed that the potential of a student depends on the student's accessibility to the material through auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning. Since I have started working with students who are deaf or hard of hearing, I have heavily relied upon the visual aspect of learning, so photographs that support a subject become of greater importance for comprehension. Images give knowledge that cannot be expressed through words and somehow make certain topics seem more real if you can connect the words with a visual representation. I think that they can also be used as "attention getters" that can introduce a topic and can act as a basis for discussion. The following photo represents a topic that I remember learning about in my elementary school days, and has really stuck with me through the years. As you can see, it could be used as an "attention getter" and it could also be used as a visual during a lecture.
After completing the copywrite lab I too found myself going back to all of the times I have used images and never actually sited them. I now find myself a little confused as to when I actually have to site them and when I don't!
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