This is my first official Major Project post

I finally got my thoughts together regarding my Major Project ... I changed from Millennium Classroom to How to create stylish hair styles..

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Cool Tool #2 TAGCROWD a Word Cloud

TagCrowd  (https://tagcrowd.com) is a free app developed by a Stanford University student named Daniel Steinbock. By using a "paste text', "website URL" or by uploading a file, TagCrowd can detect word frequency. By showing the word frequency of the text, it gives the reader a general idea what the text is about. Here is what the TagCrowd home screen looks like with my Copyright blog pasted-in: Choose your text source: Paste Text   Web Page URL   Upload File Paste text to be visualized: plain text, 500 kilobyte max Visualize! Options: Language of text: Ignore common words in this language   none   Czech   Danish   Dutch   English   Finnish   French   German   Google search   Hungarian   Italian   Norwegian   Polish   Portuguese   Romanian   Spanish   Swedish   Maximum number of words to show? 25 - 100 is a good range Minimum frequency? Don't ...
Read more

Copyright Laws on the World Wide Web, Who knew?

I am aware of the definition of "plagiarism", which simply means "don't claim someone else's work or ideas and pass them off as your own. During our educational years we have been taught to cite our work when we use other people's work. Although citing our work comes in different formats (APA, MLA, CMS, etc) abiding to this rule keeps us out of trouble. After reviewing and reading the information regarding copyright, I am astonished. I assumed that most information on the web was free game. I believed that once information was posted to the web, such as pictures, news articles, blogs, Facebook, etc, i became public, therefore usable information. After reviewing the "Creative Commons" videos, and Understanding "Fair Use in the Digital World video, I learned that my assumptions were wrong. I know now that "plagiarism" is extended to information on the web. As a teacher, it is important to inform students where information comes from...
Read more