Thing 9- Be Legal, Be Fair
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This module discussed copyrights and protecting online intellectual property. This subject is taken very seriously in order to make sure that a persons online work is not abused. A copyright on a website, in a book, for a magazine, protects the rights of someone's content by giving them credit for their work as well as full control over what to do with their work. I started with a copyright quiz, and then began to research more about them through the Creative Commons website. I was able to add a Creative Commons license to my website. This copyright is shown at the bottom of my home page and it looks like the gray box shown in this picture. This license gives me comfort when sharing and publishing my ideas over the web.
Here it the link to my Creative Commons License:
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">Lifetime of Learning</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://libbeyjones.weebly.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Libbey Jones</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">Lifetime of Learning</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://libbeyjones.weebly.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Libbey Jones</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
Next in this module I learned about Plagiarism. I was able to take one of my previously written essays and run it through a plagiarism tracker. It turns out that my essay was really good and had 0% of non-original content! I think this tool is great for teachers and students to use. It can help students become aware of any content that they may be copying and prevent it before their work is submitted. It can also show grammatical errors as well. Teachers can use this to detect plagiarizing in assignments that students hand in. I think plagiarizing websites like this one are great because it helps push students to create their own work and point out when their work too closely resembles the work of another person. Here is a screenshot of my paper being checked for plagiarism on the tracker website.