{"id":60,"date":"2021-07-05T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/coolsig\/?p=60"},"modified":"2021-12-07T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T09:13:04","slug":"look-back-at-i-cant-believe-its-not-icepops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2021\/07\/look-back-at-i-cant-believe-its-not-icepops\/","title":{"rendered":"Look back at \u2018I can\u2019t Believe it\u2019s Not Icepops\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Introduction and background on Icepops<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Summertime is with us once again, and that can only mean it was time for the International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars (Icepops) 2021. In conjunction with CILIP Information Literacy Group<\/a> and ALT Copyright & Online Learning SIG<\/a>, this free conference was delivered on Friday the 25th<\/sup> of June by the creators, Chris Morrison and Jane Secker<\/a> as an online event called \u201cI Can\u2019t Believe its Not Icepops<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous face-to-face Icepops (2018<\/a> & 2019<\/a>) events employed a mixture of keynote speakers, five minute lightning talks<\/a> and \u2018World Caf\u00e9<\/a>\u2019 sessions, to encourage the exchange of knowledge and best practice in a welcoming social environment. This year\u2019s online event was no exception as attendees had their \u2018top trump\u2019 name badges<\/a> with geeky credentials, which were useful for virtual introductions during the pre-conference icebreaker session, and Zoom<\/a> was used facilitate the conference. To generate discussion around the event, distribute resources and inform attendees about the upcoming speakers, the Twitter hashtag #Icepops2021<\/a> was used to enable this. As someone who has had the privilege of speaking at the previous two events, it was a real pleasure seeing the innovative use of technology to replicate that \u2018feeling\u2019 of attending a face-to-face conference. Full credit must be given to Chris, Jane, the conference speakers, and CILIP & ALT CoOLSIG support staff who provided this fantastic experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conference welcome from Chris and Jane<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chris and Jane, delivered a welcoming  introduction<\/a>, which touched on the sector wide shift to an online delivery due to the pandemic and the well-received weekly webinars<\/a> they\u2019ve delivered (in conjunction with ALT), to help support the wider community during this challenging period. Looking at the programme<\/a>, it was great to see continued international representation from copyright experts\/academics from America and Australia. This was reflected in the attendees, who were from a variety of countries, reminding us that is indeed a global conference and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morning Lightning Talks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After the introduction from Jane and Chris, the first series of lightning talks took place. The four speakers delivered five-minute presentations which explored copyright compliance, to the inequality of rights for published literary works and teaching copyright by stealth. It was interesting to hear the steps both Beth Pearce and Helen Balfour employed in their respective organisations to upskill staff to underpin a culture of copyright compliance. Irene Barranco Garcia discussed the pro-active online teaching method she employed to educate staff around copyright compliance and how to infringe copyright. Leslie Lansman from Springer Nature illustrated the varying \u201clevels\u201d of protection afforded to authors, when the same \u2018science news\u2019 was published in a journal, periodical, newspaper and academic blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morning World Caf\u00e9 <\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The morning session lightning talks were followed up by the engaging and interactive World Caf\u00e9 section, which encouraged attendees to view  realted online resources<\/a>, prior to the event commencing. This session comprised of four ten minute presentations or interactive games that attendees could get involved in. Game Based learning<\/a> (Hannah Pyman), and the use of video based narratives<\/a> (Dina Martzoukou were show cased as innovative methods of teaching copyright in an online environment. Dr Claudy Op Den Kamp\u2019s  \u201cCollagementary<\/a>\u201d method of teaching 2nd<\/sup> year BA Hons film students at Bournemouth University about the contemporary issues surrounding IP in playful manner, again highlighted the use of video to teach complex themes to students. Dr Emily Hudson discussed the research she is currently undertaking with Professor Tanya Aplin (both Kings College London), in relation to the UK copyright quotation exception. Emily\u2019s talk provided a valuable overview and encouraged discussion around the proposed methodology and experiences with licencing text and images. You can participate in the discussion around Emily and Tanya\u2019s research via this Padlet<\/a>, or email Emily directly at: Emily.hudson@kcl.ac.uk<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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