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 BasicsHow 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 2Learn – Your Digital Presence

http://www.2learn.ca/ydp/copyrightabout.aspx

Copyright Resources cont.

Alberta CORE (Collaborative Online Resource Environment)

www.albertacore.ca

On copyright:https://www.albertacore.ca/items/4f3714ed-9ea6-40c8-b176-03d6bf65a20f/3/

What about Google?

The majority of Google images are copyright protected!

http://www.copyrightlaws.com/creators/copyright-law-using-images-and-photos-from-google/

Example:

Places to Get Copyright-Free Images

Alberta CORE has thousands of images that you can use:www.albertacore.caLog in using your CBE username and password

Telus 2Learn has a great section on Open Source Multimediahttp://www.2learn.ca/ydp/copydigitalcoll.aspx

Creative Commons

Creative Commons Licenses

http://www.2learn.ca/ydp/copycc.aspx

Canadian Creative Commonshttp://wiki.creativecommons.org/Canada

Digital Locks

From Telus 2learn

http://www.2learn.ca/ydp/copylocks.aspx

Citing your SourcesO 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 ReferencingO 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 are also great tools to help you! Try Citation Machine, BibMe 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.