Anne Bubnic's List: Digital Citizenship/Piracy & Plagiarism

A comprehensive online resource for people concerned with the growing problem of internet plagiarism. There are a number of helpful handouts in downloadable form on topics such as copyright laws, citing sources, how to properly paraphrase, and guidelines for students and educators.

Merle Marsh wrote this highly informative article on Teaching Children to Be Responsible Users of Technology, which includes real-life incidents involving legal and ethical abuses of technologies. She also provides recommended educator activities and teaching suggestions.

In 2005, over 20 billion music files was downloaded illegally. The music industry is trying to come to rights with the problem by working on new and better solutions for legal downloading. The purpose of this site [from Norway] is to work as an eye-opener and to raise a debate around the attitudes towards illegal downloading of music. The campaign site is a movie, especially made for the net, mixed with interactive exercises. In addition to the movie, there are 11 clickable myths & facts.

Computer Ethics is a big focal area at Pioneer Middle School. This link provides a whole unit of information on cyberethics for kids, complete with four different tasks and a downloadable task sheet. As part of the unit, students created their own <a href= "http://piotech.wsd.wednet.edu/techtwounits/02ComputerEthics/Task4/ethicsquizzes.html"><b>ethics quizzes</a> </b> and they are posted on line .

Jack Black talks about movies, music and piracy in this entertaining public service announcement.

An academic research team -- joining people from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland -- is hosting and working on the core of this wiki, which illustrates the beginning stages of a larger research project on Digital Natives. The site offers a wealth of information in 10 topic areas:<br>\nDigital Identity, digital safety, digital privacy, digital creativity, digital opportunities, digital information overload, digital information quality, digital piracy and digital education. <br><br>

Flash cartoons based on Charlie's Angels that teach kids about how to stay safe on the internet from the folks at Wired Safety. Topics include: Cyberbullying, Predators and Strangers, Personal Information, Piracy, Cyber Citizenship, and Protecting your computer.

2nd in the CyberCop Series, AIRDOGS was designed to show teenagers that online crimes have lifelong legal and social consequences for teens and their families. In the game, Luke is a teenager who shows great promise as a snowboarder. He needs money for gear and training, so he begins to counterfeit software in his basement. Players collect data and evidence to catch Luke's boss, who is the ringleader of the operation. The message of Air Dogs is clear: theft and extortion are crimes, whether you're 16 or 60. Available both as a home edition and a school edition. [Windows and Mac OSX versions available]

The Entertainment Software Association has put together a comprehensive web site on intellectual property geared for K-5 and middle school students. Through hands-on learning activities, students explore the significance of intellectual property in their everyday lives. There are suggestions for integrating content with classroom curriculum, teacher's guides, reproducible worksheets and Powerpoint templates. All of the activities are designed to raise copyright awareness and build respect for intellectual property.

Real world, practical and relevant copyright, fair use and public domain information. Covers copyright in the <b>visual domain </b>(movies, tv shows, photographs, screenplays, art, sculpture), copyright in the <b>audio domain</b> (musical compositions, lyrics, sound recordings) and copyright in the <b>digital domain </b>(web, Internet and software).

Dave, a fellow 8th grade classmate needs help from the Club. Someone in Mr. B’s class plagiarized their own paper—and since Mr. B has a bell curve it affects everyone. Dave’s grade is lowered and his parents are sending him to Boarding School! Adina’s Deck takes the case in order to help Dave get the grade he deserves. In this who-done-it, there are four main suspects, and the club needs to investigate each of their alibis to catch the cheater and save Dave. After a difficult case, the club learns about the true nature of plagiarism- and that doing things right the first time just might be a trustworthy solution.

Suggested classroom use (4th-10th grade): writing, literature, history, technology/computer teachers, character education, leadership classes. Additional use: school-wide assemblies, school broadcasts, district streaming, counselor sessions, “back to school” programs on cheating/plagiarism, college prep, in preperation for assigning a major writing assignment,

To ensure that students' behaviors do not jeopardize their future careers, educators must understand the online activities that present ethical and professional issues and make every effort to educate students about appropriate behavior and interactions in an online environment

Canadian resources covering digital citizenship, Web 2.0, copyright, plagiarism, Internet Safety and Cyberbullying.

Less than 24 hours after its release, pirated digital copies of Dan Brown's blockbuster novel were found on file-sharing sites such as Rapidshare and BitTorrent. Within days, it had been downloaded for free more than 100,000 times.

Thematic unit on digital citizenship for students in middle school aged 10-14. For this unit we have broken it into two weeks. Week one will be on plagiarism, copyright, and creative commons. Week two will be on online etiquette and cyberbullying. The students will learn about each theme over a course of days. After the two themes have been examined, students will complete a final project related to the goals.

A quarter of UK internet users aged eight to 12 had profiles on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace last year, research has found, although the lowest minimum age set on any of the sites is 13.
Ofcom's annual Children's Media Literacy Audit for 2009 also had bad news for the music industry, finding that 44% of children between 12 and 15 thought downloading shared copies of films and music for free should not be illegal.

Learn how to create attribution lines for CC-licensed images.

Like many photographers I enjoy people viewing my pictures, but I don’t appreciate people using my images without permission, again by this I don’t mean when someone uses my images and gives me proper credit and links back to this site, that is ok and encouraged. What I mean by “without permission” is when they pass it as their own or use it for profit without compensating me and asking for permission.