What do you think you know about Intellectual Property?

What is Intellectual Property? 

Break this phrase apart and look at each word individually. How do you define each of these words?

Now put the words back together and write your own definition for "Intellectual Property".

Publish this definition on your blog.

Consider how you use other people's Intellectual Property. Do you remix? Do you download music? Do you forward other people's pictures to friends?

Make a list and post it to your blog.

After watching the TEDTalk shown in class, think about how your actions are covered in law.

Creating...

You as a creator of creative things… Write a blogpost for your blog considering the following

Share an experience of being creative.

What did you create?

How does it feel to be a creator?

Include a picture or a link if you can.

Read a Time article...

Read an article from Time and think about how the journalist has considered the audience when writing the story. 

What do you notice about the tone of the article? 

What do you notice about the verb tenses used in the article? 

What do you notice about the headline?

Write a blogpost responding to the guiding questions about the Time article you decided to read. Include a reference and link to the Time article.

Welcome to Research 10 for the graduating class of 2018!

Hello all,

This is the space where we will communicate. We will communicate through this blog and through your own blogs. I will often ask you to post your thinking to your blog. Your blog will be your 'binder' for this class. It is most important that you 'tag' or 'label' all of your posts for this class with the tag or label Research.

Please visit this Google Sheet called Blogs for graduating class of 2018 to give me your blog details. I will change the blog roll on the right hand side of this blog so that there are links to your blogs here. I will use these all the time when I am grading your work.

I am looking forward to teaching you this year.

Recognising and Reading Scholarly Work

Choose one of the following articles to read. Use Diigo or 'old school' strategies to practice your active reading skills.

http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/literacy/articles/instant-messaging/

http://thescholarship.ecu.edu/bitstream/handle/10342/4582/WKSA_2014_1stplace.pdf?sequence=1

http://www.academia.edu/11245168/Text_messaging_affects_teen_literacy_

http://etec.hawaii.edu/proceedings/2009/Tomita.pdf

http://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1185&context=msw_papers

http://contentcat.fhsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/thesis/id/3254

http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/Case%20Numbers/text%20messaging%20and%20grammar_Case%2011.pdf

TASK:

What do you notice about the article you are reading? What features are familiar to you? Unfamiliar?

How is the article you are reading different from the sources you are using to write your essay?

Write a blogpost that reflects on what you have noticed and learnt from reading this article.

Creating and using a Gold Standard

Before we started organising the Pakistan Day seminars we were looking at how we can and why we should judge the quality and reliability of information we find on the Internet.

Your job now is to apply this learning to an information problem.

You are going to:

Choose a research question from a list
Decide what your Gold Standard for Information Sources would be
Find 5 websites that meet your Gold Standard
Report on how you established your Gold Standard and how the websites you have chosen meet those Gold Standard

In the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly folder you will find a document called Information Problems for your Gold Standard Work.

You will receive a grade for your report on the Gold Standard, for your report on the 5 websites and from your peers on how you have applied your Gold Standard.

CAS Reflections

In order for your CAS project to be counted towards your CAS portfolio, you need to submit your reflection and finalise the packet within two weeks of the end of the activity.

Pakistan Day was on March 13, this means you have until March 27 to complete your CAS packet and reflection... and we'll be on Spring Break then. What are you going to do to solve this dilemma?