Blog 10: I'm glad my computer screen is water proof #Dontcry

Reactions to Creative Commons Reading Video:

Copyright is a very complex and mildly annoying hassle for anyone wishing to protect his or her work.  But Creative Commons offers a different method to go about how one could share parts of their idea to the public with still retaining rights to how the information would be shown or taught. This type of copyright also helps collaboration from those who wish to build on the work of others or get inspired from it to make a whole new application for it. Any idea is stronger in a group, and for a lot of people, group collaboration is way more productive than isolated work.  It was helpful to view this video as a quick nod to how and why someone would want to share their work but also places safe guards in how their open information works.

Reflection

This class has taught me quite a lot within one semester. The most valuable skill it taught me was how to seek an answer. While we have more or less access in the future in regards to our informational capabilities, but how to analyze our information and determine credibility is ideal when trying to make any observation or revelations about the world around us. The era in which we will be active in is filled with distractions, misinformation, and desires to form complacency. Having the notion and or drive to look past these beautiful and seductive traps and ask if what information we are getting is bologna. Being critical of information you find to be valuable is the idea for determining the validity of your thoughts. This is important to anyone, but in the performance practices of music, properly vetted sources are a must when trying to do any accurate historical rendition or work. Going off of one source from a non-peer-viewed source and taking that information, as gospel would result in ideal horrible outcries of butchering facts. This reaction doesn’t always happen, and during certain terrible instances, one could accomplish some rapture level apocalyptic outcomes if one’s ego could live with not fact-checking his or her work. Regardless of all the sad facts of the world that one must accept when taking this class, I have made huge strides in how I wish my education to proceed and what topics interest me. Using the tools I’ve gained from this class, I feel confident in continuing to uncover anything and everything I find interesting.