Logical Fallacies

We are investigating 5 logical fallacies:

Ad Hominem (Personal Attack)
Appeal to Irrelevant Authority
Appeal to Pity
Hasty Generalisation
False Dilemma

Make copies of the following documents on the shared drive and annotate your copy with your answers to the problems:

Logical Fallacy Practice
Logical Fallacy Analysis

We will have a quiz about the 5 logical fallacies next class and spend some time coming up with our own.

The topics for your Logical Fallacy presentations are available on the shared drive along with the rubric. You will be presenting individually on October 13th.

Embedding your Voki

Your Voki should look like this, not a link!

Asian Women's Leadership University Survey

My name is Mila Devenport and I am with the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project. Together with our academic partner Smith College (one of the original women’s colleges of the U.S.), our organization is in the process of establishing an international, liberal arts and sciences, women’s leadership university based in Malaysia aimed at cultivating a cadre of women leaders from across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and other emerging regions who can advance social, political, and economic development in their home countries and regions.

I am writing you because we are currently conducting an online survey of students in this region and would like to request International School of Islamabad's participation.  The survey is to compile information on how students view this idea of AWLU and takes only 2 minutes to complete online. We would greatly appreciate if you could distribute the survey (using the link below here) to all your female students ages 15-18 years

The survey is conducted online and can be accessed here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V3297XL

Demonstration

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Task for Virtual School September 2nd 2014

It would appear from the grades earned for your homework task, that you lack understanding of the 5 big concepts of protecting intellectual property. Considering you will be assessed on your knowledge of this and be expected to use other people's intellectual property in  your own work for this subject and others, this is a concern.

Today, investigate these resources to improve your understanding of these concepts:

How it works - a comic about Creative Commons

Creative Commons: Spectrum of Rights

Creative Commons video
This is a link to a video hosted on Moodle

Decide if your video is fair use 
This resource gives advice to help people use other people's intellectual property in videos. You will be creating a video for you summative assessment of this unit. The section 'Deciding if you video is fair use' is particularly of interest.

A Fairy Use Tale
This video uses the fair use exception to explain the fair use exception. It's very clever, but it may take a few viewings to understand the message.

ON YOUR BLOG
When you have explored these resources, go to Search.CreativeCommons.org and find an image/media/sound file that says something about you as a person, that has an appropriate CC license and post it on your blog. Appropriately crediting the creator according to the CC rules. Write a short paragraph justifying your choice of license for the original work  you choose to use for this task.

You will receive a formative grade for this task. You will be graded on the following:

Choice of appropriate license (10)
Credit given correctly according to CC rules (20)

You will notice that there are numbers after the grading criteria. I wonder if this is where some of you got lost in the last graded assignment. These numbers relate to the marks assigned to each part of the task. As you can see here, giving credit correctly is worth 2 times more marks than choosing the appropriate license.

FIRST HOMEWORK TASK - REVIEW
In the first graded homework task, the definition of each term was worth (2) but demonstrating understanding of who can use the material and the conditions under which it can be used was worth (6), because this is more important than being able to define the terms. Many of you lost crucial marks because you concentrated on a definition and not who can use it and how.

If you would like to improve your grade for the first task you may work on it for homework. If you send me an email by 3pm tomorrow (Wednesday September 3rd) letting me know you have made improvements, then I will regrade your work.

Grading of First Homework Assignment

Well done to 11 students who posted their Copyright Protection homework task. I have graded your work and uploaded your grades to Edline. You may be disappointed in your grades. I suggest you go to your blog and read my comments.

If you did not post your homework task or come and see me about it. You have incurred a 10% penalty for late work as per the Course Syllabus. Please post your work today so that you do not end up losing even more of your grade.

Have a great weekend, see you Tuesday.

Protection for Creative People

Summarize and define the following terms that we talked about in today's lesson:

Intellectual Property

Copyright

Fair Use

Creative commons

Public Domain

Think about:

What protection is offered?
Who benefits from the protection offered?
Who can use the material being protected? Under what conditions?

These will be your class notes on this lesson. Use the internet if you need to refresh your memory, but give attribution when you use someone's ideas or words in your blog.

Copyright and Fair Use Animation

This homework will be graded using the following criteria:

Accurate definition of the term (2)
An example that demonstrates understanding of the protection offered for each term (4)
A description that demonstrates understanding of who benefits and how they benefit for each term (4)
A description that demonstrates understanding of who can use the material and the conditions under which it can be used (6)

This homework is due Friday August 29th at 8am.

Remember to use the 'research' label for this post.