Things you should or should not use in a project.

Today, we're going to begin our new project in Pages with the countries. Before we do, though, we had a couple things to learn about so we didn't get into any legal trouble.


Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's work in your own projects and saying that it was your work. When you look at a sentence online, you would have to restate everything you read in a completely different way to avoid plagiarism. There are very good reasons to avoid plagiarism in any station of life: as a student, plagiarism would get you into detention, ISS, or maybe even suspension. For sure you would get a 0 on your assignment. In college, plagiarism can result in expulsion from the school and a note in their permanent record. In a real job, you would probably lose your job, and it would be pretty hard to find another one. 

In our blogs, we will have to cite our sources. To cite our sources, we will use our teacher's little special method of citations1. In our itinerary and facts, we will use a small footnote to link the project paper to our bibliography, which will have all the necessary information about the citation- The author, title of the work, location found, date published and date used, website, etc.

Examples: 

Italy Heaven. "About Italy." Italy Heaven. Italy Heaven, 2010. Web. 10 Sept.
     2010. <http://www.italyheaven.co.uk/aboutsite.html>.

Internet Studios. "Best of Italy." Just Italy. Internet Studios, 2010. Web. 10
     Sept. 2010. <http://www.justitaly.org/italy/best-of-italy.asp>.

Stock Photography is a set of photos that were collected for people to use instead of needing a professional to take the pictures instead. Commercial stock photography makes you have to pay to use the photos, but a lot of stock photography is free for people who create accounts on a website. It's a lot better to go onto a free, public stock photography site instead of finding random images off Google because Google images can be copyrighted, and the owners of the picture could contact their lawyers and sue the person who used the picture without permission. 

An image that is 'Public Domain' has no property rights and no copyrights. These are normally pictures that have an expired copyright. They still need to be cited, of course. 

Karan's Whimsy. Shields in stained glass of the 14th century with the arms of 
     Mowbray. 14th Century. Karan's Whimsy. Karan's Whimsy. Web. 10 Sept.
     2010. <http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/medieval-shields/
     medieval-shields-3.shtm>.








1: http://sw-multimedia.blogspot.com/search/label/multimedia