Blog 8 Xinyi Wang

I downloaded this picture from image.google.com. It illustrates a popular activity, Cherry blossom viewing, where family hang out together and enjoy a beautiful spring afternoon together. It suits the theme of “Harmony” quite well; therefore I used it to demonstrate Prince Shotoku’s first constitution which is hard to be explained only by words. Moreover, it put emphasis on the modern society which inherited the spirit. Concerning the IP usage, I did not alter or change the photo, and use it for non-commercial purpose. In academic writing, paraphrasing is important, because the amount of direct citation is strictly limited, or it will be consider as plagiarism. However, in digital stories, it against the Fair use guideline if part of the origin is changed. The common thing is that both academic writing and digital stories need a reference in the end.

The process of making a digital movie practiced me a lot. Collecting excellent pictures on the internet is time-consuming; bringing them together with cohesion needs work. Recording script in a whisper room is also exciting. Through all these progress, I realized that protecting intellectual property is vital. Everyone’s work needs effort and time, if someone uses my video without giving credit to me, I must be annoying. Although intellectual property in china are not given much attention as it is in United States, it is a hot issues nowadays and I believe people will realize that respecting each other’s work is a basic rule.

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This is a gorgeous picture of the famous Potala palace. I retrieved this picture from http://www.nipic.com/show/1/62/36125f1761121525.html. I used this picture to represent the beauty of the Tibet area, south-west part of China. This one is quite a beautiful one, nice color and prominent picture structure. Since this is not a picture taken by myself, to obey the 4 fair use of IP, I showed the source of it in my digital story.Because I won't publish my video on the internet or make some dvd including the picture to earn money, with the citatin I don't have to concern of violation of the IP protection law. Unlike the document I used in my argument essay, I don’t need to add in text citation during the video, but only give the credit in the end of the video, just like a reference list in the end of my essay. 

During the process of finishing my digital story, I learnt a lot. Besides the skill of fluent operating software like imove and audacity I gained, I knew more about the intellectual property usage and technology. For example, at first I searched picture on the internet and then downloaded it, and then close the window. When my video came to the end of the process, I have to re-search the pictures to get the source or URL of it, it was really time- consuming. After this, I learnt that I should write the source down at the same time I download the photos.

In both the digital story, all students showed their own culture. For instance, in the argument essay, we showed our formar education background and our concept of bath academic integrity and what is plagiarism. And in the digital story video, every students show their own cultures. For example , in Baki's video, he present the culture and art of Turkey, in Soochan's video, he showed us Korean military life and in Xiao Yang's video, he explained the Confucianism. Culture has a uneliminatable effect. All of us have a strong will to show and share it.  

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This is a picture in my digital story. It is from http://www.elledecor.com/image/tid/5796 this picture us an implicit image used to describe my digital story topic is my first road trip in USA. This picture is Chicago famous attraction name is Cloud gate in Millennium Park. As a result I select a picture of attraction at the beginning of the digital story to make my point clear. This picture can attract the audience’s attention about what the story focus and make my main point more outstanding. Before I put this picture in my digital story, I need to consider the picture IP address and the owner copyright. In the end according to the citation rule and fair use of guidelines, I cite it correctly and my usage is limited and just sharing personal opinions rather than for business and another area. I think both the digital story and academic essay need proper usage of these sources. However, I think academic essay better need inclines to use the article than digital story. Therefore the rule of citation is an important rule to usage of sources in academic essay.

I think this digital story is a both challenging and interesting mission. It does not only need the writing skills and also the pronunciation skills. The process of making video is my first. I think this provides me a chance to learning media production and touching new area about media. Through my digital story gain a deeper understanding of intellectual property and copyright. Using pictures in a writing piece is similar to citing an article to support the point of essay, as both of them are in risk of copyright and intellectual if used without citations. No mater the cultural difference, the protecting copyright and intellectual property is the same. Though the definition of plagiarism is different culture background.

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 reason why I use this picture is to stress the difference between the Chinese and American education systems. The source of this picture is from www.cartoonstock.com. The nature of source is definitely published and the purpose I used it is for education not commercial because I use it to illustrate my idea in my presentation. By seeing this picture, my audience can fully understand that Chinese students’ homework is much heavier than American students’ and the revolution of education system should be deployed quickly. I consider the usage of picture in digital story is very similar to that in my essay. I have to consider the amount of usage, the nature of source, etc. The difference is that in writing, I need to paraphrase some words form my source to make it easier to understand. But for digital story, almost all of intellectual property is pictures. Thus, I don’t have to think about paraphrasing anymore.

 

In my opinion, this assignment helps me a lot. It makes me comprehend the concept of intellectual property and how to use it properly. On the other hand, it teaches me how to use iMovie and audacity, which will help me to how do well in a presentation in the future. I find my pictures on Google and Wikipedia by typing the specific name I want to express in my story. Culture has a significant impact for one’s writing. It’s the spirit of on person and because of this reason, people will think differently by their culture background. For instance, In our class, two Turkish were happy to share their experience in Istanbul  and  people from china also like to share their experience in Beijing or their hometown.