• Academic integrity is the core set of values and principles that underwrites the very mission of the University itself: integrity, honesty, hard work, and the determination to translate personal and professional principles into behavior. It is a reflection of the students' experience here at Mizzou and is a measure of the very worth of their degree.
• If they or others around them are not living up to a high standard of academic integrity, the worth of the education they are receiving (and the degree they will receive) is compromised.

• Academic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship. Academic assignments exist to help students learn; grades exist to show how fully this goal is attained. Therefore all work and all grades should result from the student's own understanding and effort.
• CHEATING AND UNAUTHORIZED MATERIAL ON EXAMINATIONS AND OTHER ASSIGNMENTS
• IMPROPER COLLABORATION
• ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT IN ONLINE COURSES
• SUBMITTING THE SAME ASSIGNMENT FOR DIFFERENT CLASSES

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• Academic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship. Students and faculty alike must obey rules of honest scholarship, which means that all academic work should result from an individual's own efforts. Intellectual contributions from others must be consistently and responsibly acknowledged. Academic work completed in any other way is fraudulent.
• Plagiarism is using others' ideas and/or words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

• Academic integrity essentially means "intellectual honesty": honesty in the use of information, in formulating arguments, and in other activities related to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. It is a core principle that underpins how we live and learn in a community of inquiry.
• "a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to five fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility." Academic excellence fundamentally depends upon these values. Every participant in a community of inquiry has the obligation to support practices that promote academic integrity, prevent dishonesty, and punish offenses when they occur.
• Academic communities expect their members to author original and authentic work, no matter what the field of learning or level of experience

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• A web log, often shortened to "blog," is a web page that contains dated posts, by one or multiple users, often pertaining to a particular topic. "Blogging" is the act of writing in a blog.

• A blog (a contraction of the words web log)^[1] is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).

• A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
• Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.
• a blog is a web site
• blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.

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• Collaboration is working with each other to do a task.
• process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals,
• Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.^[6] In particular, teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing c
• collaboration encourage introspection of behavior and communication

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• Collaboration is a joint effort of multiple individuals or work groups to accomplish a task or project.
• working together simultaneously and in communication as they work.

• Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve business benefi
• • Awareness - We become part of a working entity with a shared purpose
   
  • Motivation - We drive to gain consensus in problem solving or development
   
  • Self-synchronization - We decide as individuals when things need to happen
   
  • Participation - We participate in collaboration and we expect others to participate
   
  • Mediation - We negotiate and we collaborate together and find a middle point
   
  • Reciprocity - We share and we expect sharing in return through reciprocity
   
  • Reflection - We think and we consider alternatives
   
  • Engagement - We proactively engage rather than wait and see
• • Freeform: no barriers to authorship, i.e. free from a learning curve or restrictions.
   
  • Network-oriented: all content must be Web-addressable.
   
  • Social: stresses transparency (to access), diversity (in content and community members) and openness (to structure)
   
  • Emergence: must provide approaches that detect and leverage the collective wisdom of the community.

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• 1. What is a Copyright?

  Fundamentally, copyright is a law that gives you ownership over the things you create. Be it a painting, a photograph, a poem or a novel, if you created it, you own it and it’s the copyright law itself that assures that ownership. The ownership that copyright law grants comes with several rights that you, as the owner, have exclusively.
• • The right to reproduce the work
   
  • to prepare derivative works
   
  • to distribute copies
   
  • to perform the work
   
  • and to display the work publicly
• These are your rights and your rights alone. Unless you willingly give them up (EX: A Creative Commons License), no one can violate them legally. This means that, unless you say otherwise, no one can perform a piece written by you or make copies of it, even with attribution, unless you give the OK.

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• A copyright protects the form of expression of a creator against copying. Literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works are included within the protection of U.S. copyright law.
• Copyright protection is given to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available for both published and unpublished works.

• The owner of copyright has the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:

  • Reproduce the work in copies or sound recordings.
  • Make derivative works based upon the original.
  • Distribute copies or sound recordings of the original to the public by sales, rentals, leasing, lending or licensing.
  • Perform the original publicly; and that would include the use of digital audio.
  • Display the original publicly.
• It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the above rights provided by the copyright law to the owner of copyright
• One specified exemptions from copyright liability is called "fair use".

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• Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works” and includes such things as literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual creations, both published and unpublished
• Copyright does not protect ideas. It only protects the specific and original expression of the idea. A good example of this is that there are many films and books based on the classic boy meets girl theme in which the girl’s parents disapprove of boy and after many tears, true love finally triumphs. This theme cannot be monopolised, but original works to it can be. The same can be said of all other works.
  
• Copyright is an exclusive right and gives its creator, or owner if the rights are sold, the sole right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute and sell any copies of the copyrighted work, to perform or display the copyrighted work publicly.
• Copyright protection is automatic.

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• Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights.
• Copyright initially was conceived as a way for government to restrict printing; the contemporary intent of copyright is to promote the creation of new works by giving authors control of and profit from them.

• A database is an organized collection of data. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality in a way that supports processes requiring this information. For example, modeling the availability of rooms in hotels in a way that supports finding a hotel with vacancies.

• What is it? A database is an organized list of facts and information. Databases usually contain text and numbers, and frequently they hold still images, sounds and video or film clips
• What's the difference between a simple list and a database? A database permits its user to extract a specific group of disparate facts from within a collection of facts.
• For instance. Here are some examples of ways we use databases: 
   
  • Wedding invitation lists, tax expense records and club member names and addresses are some of the kinds of databases kept by individuals on their home computers. 
  • Office workers tap into databases of budget information and business contacts. 
  • Businesses maintain databanks of credit information, while government agencies offer databanks of legal citations and technical data. 
  • Academic researchers reach into scholarly journal databases to build bibliographies for their papers and dissertations. 
  • Libraries and other research resources provide access to academic databases for use in scholarly projects.

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• database is a collection of information organized to provide efficient retrieval. The collected information could be in any number of formats (electronic, printed, graphic, audio, statistical, combinations). There are physical (paper/print) and electronic databases.

• database
• A database is a tool for collecting and organizing information. Databases can store information about people, products, orders, or anything else. Many databases start as a list in a word-processing program or spreadsheet. As the list grows bigger, redundancies and inconsistencies begin to appear in the data. The data becomes hard to understand in list form, and there are limited ways of searching or pulling subsets of data out for review. Once these problems start to appear, it's a good idea to transfer the data to a database created by a database management system (DBMS), such as Office Access 2007.

• Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.
• Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.
• Whether it is called digital citizenship, digital wellness or digital ethics the issues are the same; how should we act when we are online, and what should be taught to the next generation

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• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 
•   Digital Access:   full electronic participation in society
• Digital Commerce:   electronic buying and selling of goods.
• Digital Communication:   electronic exchange of information.
• Digital Literacy:   process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
• Digital Etiquette:   electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
• Digital Law:   electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
• Digital Rights & Responsibilities:   those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.
• Digital Health & Wellness:   physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world
• Digital Security (self-protection):   electronic precautions to guarantee safety.

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