Calling all [team sport] athletes: we all can relate to the moment where, your team did it! You finally made it to the gold medal game of the biggest tournament of the season. There’s a minute left and the game is tied. You make a pass of the century, and your teammate scores the game winning goal. Everyone cheers and praises your teammate for their hardwork and amazing game.

You know they deserve praise because they helped your team win; but you also feel sad because nobody is recognizing that they couldn’t have that success without you setting them up. That mixed emotion of being happy but also unrecognized is gutwrenching. It is also how our educational partners and resource creators may feel when we use their resoruces without proper credit.

Alright, now that I’ve got you hooked, we can dive deeper into this week’s material!

In today’s day and age, I was surprised to hear that as soon as you create something, you automatically have copyright over it. We live in such a digital age that I assumed you had to prove to some sort of agency that the work was yours in order to get copyright. This misunderstanding was likely because I never had read into Bill C-11, and did not realize that there is a certain amount of “wiggle room” given to my instructors and I to use materials for educational purposes.

Going into my practicum this April, and having to create my own lesson plans, I want to be very intentional with my lesson planing and use Open Educational Resource (OER) to ensure that my practice is both beneficial and ethical. Luckily, it is an easy practice I can make sure I do, even today! For example, ths picture in this post was sourced from Pexels, and I would like to thank fauxels for making this picture available.

An OER that I could potentially see myself using for my free inquiry project is the “Have confidence and go for it” YouTube video by Megan Oyster. I specifically chose this resource because it is from another woman telling other athletes to have confidence and try new things.

Chow for now!