Copyright and Citing Your Sources The Basics What

Copyright and Citing Your Sources!

The Basics What is copyright? “In general, the sole right to produce or reproduce a work or a substantial part of it in any form. ” Canadian Intellectual Property Office

The Basics O Canadian and American copyright laws are not the same O Our copyright law has changed – we now have the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act (received Royal Assent June 2012). O Educational Fair Use Guidelines apply to schools

The Basics How does this affect you as a student? O When you are working on projects for your classes you use information from other sources (encyclopedias, websites, pictures, etc. ) O If you use information from a source, you must abide by copyright law and give credit to show where your info. comes from. O Showing where your information comes from avoids plagiarism.

Copyright Resources Telus 2 Learn – Your Digital Presence http: //www. 2 learn. ca/ydp/copyrightabout. asp x

Copyright Resources cont. Alberta CORE (Collaborative Online Resource Environment) www. albertacore. ca On copyright: https: //www. albertacore. ca/items/4 f 3714 ed 9 ea 6 -40 c 8 -b 176 -03 d 6 bf 65 a 20 f/3/

What about Google? The majority of Google images are copyright protected! http: //www. copyrightlaws. com/creators/copy right-law-using-images-and-photos-fromgoogle/ Example:

Places to Get Copyright. Free Images Alberta CORE has thousands of images that you can use: www. albertacore. ca Log in using your CBE username and password Telus 2 Learn has a great section on Open Source Multimedia http: //www. 2 learn. ca/ydp/copydigitalcoll. asp x

Creative Commons Licenses http: //www. 2 learn. ca/ydp/copycc. aspx Canadian Creative Commons http: //wiki. creativecommons. org/Canada

Digital Locks From Telus 2 learn http: //www. 2 learn. ca/ydp/copylocks. aspx

Citing your Sources O Whenever you use information or ideas from a source of any kind for a project or essay it’s essential that you give credit to the person/people who wrote it! O Avoid plagiarism by ALWAYS creating a list of references showing where the information was found. O Showing your references is a key element in being a digital citizen at Thirsk!

Tools for Referencing O There are two formats you will use for creating references at RTHS: APA and MLA O Your teacher will tell you which kind of format they want you to use in their class O The good news is that many resources include the citation information in them and you can copy and paste it right into your list. O There also great tools to help you! Try Citation Machine, Bib. Me or Noodle Tools, found in the VLC

Practice! O Using tools like www. albertacore. ca, the Online Reference Centre from Learn Alberta www. learnalberta. ca, or the Internet search for information that you can use for a project you are working on with Mr. Christensen. O If you already have a project underway, use those resources and work on a Reference list for the project. O Create a list of References in Word that you can use for your project.