Intellectual Property What is legal when it comes to using multimedia in the classroom? Academic source citation / documentation is not the same thing as copyright compliance! Judges in courts do not look at your bibliography to check for correct punctuation, what they are concerned about is FAIR USE. Teachers, administrators and students should be too! Article: "Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003" Clarifications offered via email on my Copyright 101 article Workshop: Digital Dishonesty resources Crash Course in Copyright from UT (At least read the section on Fair Use) What is a good standard for citing webpages? Title of Website. URL of website. Date Accessed. Example: "Introduction to the Nine Planets: Saturn." http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html. Accessed 1 June 2003. Tools for Academic Honesty / Source Documentation Citationmachine: Exellent, free online bibliography maker (http://citationmachine.net) NoteStar: An online tool to assist with documentation (http://notestar.4teachers.org) Suggestions for Works Cited: Grades 1-6 - (http://nausetschools.org/research/works2.htm) BibBuilder: Free Online Bibliography Builder - (www.uwec.edu/jerzdg/orr/articles/research/bib/) Style Sheets for Citing Internet Resources (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MLAStyleSheet.html) Columbia Guide to Online Style (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html) Internet Citation Guides from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Citation and Bibliography Formats from UT-Austin Resources for Addressing Plagiarism / Teaching Academic Honesty "Copyright Primer for Administrators" by Hall Davidson (really this is good for ALL educators, includes good scenarios for discussion and role play) Strategies to Address Digital Plagiarism (www.wtvi.com/teks/04_05_articles/digital_plagiarism.html) How to Discourage Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty A Proactive Approach for Teachers by James E. Porter (www.rhetoric.msu.edu/resources/teach_plagiarism.pdf) Preventing Academic Dishonesty by Barbara Gross Davis (http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/prevent.html) Online articles by students about cheating, its motives, and ways to address it (www.topics-mag.com/edition13/cheating-page.htm) Academic Prevention and Detection (www.iub.edu/~teaching/cheating.html) Examples of Academic Dishonesty From Kansas State University (www.ksu.edu/honor/students/examples.htm) Academic Dishonesty resources from Google (http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Educators/Academic_Dishonesty/) Other helpful links relating to copyright / intellectual property issues: US Copyright Law: Title 17 (www.copyright.gov/title17/) US Copyright Office (www.loc.gov/copyright) Public Domain and Copyright How-To from Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/vol/pd.html) Copyright Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) The Eric Eldred Act (http://eldred.cc/) Last updated   Philosophy & Vision Basics Sample Lessons Locating Websites Multimedia Print Publications Creating Websites Data Management 1 Computer Classroom Administrative Resources Intellectual Property Good Websites Internet Safety Other Tech Tools Coffee Shop Handhelds in the Classroom 1 to 1 Computing Tools for the TEKS Home Tools for the TEKS home | Article Archive | Technology Workshops Mailing List | Feedback | Tools and Techniques | Technology Idea Exchange Contact me using this webform. Links to my blogs are also available. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.