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What can students do on a wiki or blog?

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These scenarios involve students uploading text, images, videos and music onto a blog or wiki. Uploading such 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 education exceptions known as 'fair dealing' in the Copyright Act which enable students to copy and communicate material for class and homework tasks.

Scenario 1: Working Collaboratively

The students of a year 10 science class are asked to work on a group report. The students divide the work equally among the group and create a wiki, adding the group members to work on the wiki collaboratively. The students then log into the wiki and start working on their sections of the report at the same time, with some students working from home.

They review each other’s work at the same time and exchange their opinions.

Scenario 2: Using Links on a Wiki

George, a Year 9 student studying French as a second language, builds his own website using TLA wiki application.

He has added links to all the essays, assignments, other course work, and useful links he has found on the web to his wiki home page and users visiting his wiki page can access his work.

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