Project+Six

Project Six: Chatting, Legal Stuff and tiny URLs.

The goals for today are for you to 1) practice safe online chatting, 2) identify how to use online materials and give credit to the right people, and 3) practice using URL-adapting programs.

Getting started: 1) Open two tabs in Explorer or Firefox. 2) Have one tab open to this wiki. 3) Have your gagglenet account ([] ) in the other tab.

-Shannon -Tristan
 * Student Tutors for Today: **

**Start by getting on this site, and participating in a class chat:** []

__Another Avatar-making site. Make yourself in clay: __
[] See mine at [|Clay Croghan]

__**My Crazy Dream: Make your own on: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> []

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__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Plagiarism: __
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Okay, plagiarism is becoming a huge problem on the net. When people take text or pictures from the internet, they are not always giving credit to the person that wrote the story or owns the picture. Doing this is the equivalent of taking someone's paper, scratching out that person's name and putting your own name on it. Any first grader could tell you that putting your name on another person's paper is wrong, but when it comes to the web, the rules and social norms haven't been made as clear. Nevertheless, when it comes to taking resources from the web, we need to protect ourselves from lawsuits and academic dishonesty. This is especially true, as not satisfying copyright rules may result in more than a trip to the principal's office, it can have legal implications as well. So here are a few rules by which to live when it comes to "borrowing" information from the web.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Usually, taking something from the web is okay, but you must give credit to the creator.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Everything that you can find on the internet was made by someone else (unless you made it yourself) so you must check to see if you can use it for yourself.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Know what is okay to take from the web before you take it.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If you are not sure if it is okay to take something, don't take it.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When it comes down to it, you should always (at minimum) list a link to the site where you found the picture or article that you are using. It's even good form to provide the link when using things that can be taken without penalty for two reasons: 1) you still give credit, and 2) it give you, and anybody looking at your website, the ability to go back to the source for related information.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Citation doesn't always have to be a problem, as in most wikis and blogs, you can embed a link into the picture or to text to serve as a form of citation.

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The sites for helping you get access to royalty-free pictures and/or licensing information: **
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://search.creativecommons.org/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.pics4learning.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://tinyurl.com/cca9j <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.photl.com/en/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.picfindr.com/app/?search= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What to do when you have a long URL, and you don't want it to mess up the look of your website or blog: __
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Go to: http://tinyurl.com/

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=home
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Take a long URL like this: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://tinyurl.com/cca9j
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And shorten it to a 25 character URL like this: **