MIL M5 - Activities
Media and Information Literacy - Activities
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"Plagiarism"
Activity 1 - MIL M5 - Learning Objective 1
As an educator or as a librarian, you may help your target audience reflect on basic plagiarism issues by prompting them to do the following activity. It is suggested that you configure the content of the activity, e.g. the sources that your target audience will use, based on your field of expertise, on their interests, on the subject you teach, etc.
WHAT IS
PLAGIARISM?
1. Think for a while and give your own answer/interpretation
2. Search for the term plagiarism in the internet, in a dictionary, in other scientific sources (e.g. books, articles, etc.) and compare your answer/interpretation to the answers/interpretations you have found
3. Think of a question that interests you and then search for at least two relevant and reliable sources
4. Study the sources and then write your own answer to the question
5. Take the following quiz to see if you have avoided plagiarism
[This quiz is based on the content of the book: Stern, Linda. What every student should know about avoiding plagiarism. Longman Publishing Group, 2006.]
"Attribution & Fair Use"
Activity 2 - MIL M5 - Learning Objective 2
Activity 2 - MIL M5 - Learning Objective 2
As an educator or as a librarian, you may prompt your target audience to prepare a group or individual work related to your field of expertise, to their interests, to the subject you teach, etc.
You may ask them to find and use Open Educational Resources (OER).
Before using any OER you may help them reflect on basic issues about Attribution & Fair Use, by watching this video and by doing the activites that follows it.
Video (duration 3m 46
sec) “Attribution & Fair Use: Copyright in Open Education #1 - YouTube” by
Abbey Elder is licensed under a
CC BY 4.0 International License
A. Attribution & Fair Use Quiz
Activity 3 - MIL M5 - Learning Objective 2
If you are interested in
learning more and in raising awareness to your target audience about fair use,
you may visit the following page: Know Your Copyrights -
Association of Research Libraries (arl.org)
After reading the flipping cards on the aforementioned page, you may prompt your target audience to do the following activity. Additionally, you may prepare your own activity, according to your country’s/community’s codes of best practice in fair use.
"Media Rights"
Activity 4 - MIL M5 - Learning Objective 3
New Media Rights | App (The Fair Use App - An Interactive Guide for Filmmakers and Video Creators), by New Media Rights, a non-profit program that provides free and nominal fee one-to-one legal services and education for filmmakers and video creators, as well as a variety of creators, entrepreneurs and others who create and share their work online.