Topic:
Economic, legal,
and social issues surrounding the use of information and access
and use of information ethically and legally
Class
Plan:
Censorship
Chat
rooms
Pornography
Filters
Electronic
Privacy
Intellectual
property
Trademark
Copyright (vs. fair use)
Patent
Freeware/shareware
(Actual plagiarized paper will be used.)
This can also lend itself to a role play situation in how to approach students when we feel they may have cheated/plagiarized.
MLA CITATION STYLE:
When to Use a
Footnote or Endnote:
http://web.sbu.edu/history/whentonote.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/study/universal/footnote.html
Design an assignment for your class which involves finding information on the web and rewording it to avoid plagiarism.
Write a mini-lecture on what plagiarism is and the school’s policy regarding academic dishonesty, based on your class’s assignments. Then design an assignment for your class which involves finding information on the web and rewording it to avoid plagiarism
THE TERM PROJECT:
Present the project as you would give it to your students
Goals: identify (or quantify) what you are trying to accomplish and what
students will learn
Topic or range of topics
limit as much as possible
set parameters
identify timelines, if necessary
Process:
Current or historical information needed
Select books: Library online catalog
Select periodical articles: Library databases--indicate which ones
Select websites: search engines
Evaluate sources
Cite sources(?)
Annotate bibliography or rank sources and explain ranking