Skill: Participate 4.1.1 Digital Rights and Responsibilities Quest

How can a DLC ensure that citizens within the community have access to an environment where an AUP protects members as well as the community itself, where individuals uphold laws, and a cooperative/collective venture provides robust, safe, and ethical resources and opportunities for learning? 

It is necssary as educators for ourselves to understood the Acceptable Use Policy in order to be able to teach by example for our students. Even though I have received training on this year few years, I do think I have toed the line of AUP more than once. I found this video useful in researching what is AUP:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFyrx6VMrY)

As educators we are lucky that there many more resources out there for use than the average person.  There is a check list for teachers that teachers should go through when considering using other people's work and if they adhere to teh Fair Use. Teachers should ask themselves:

1. What is the nature of the work?
2. What is the purpose?
3. Am I using specific sections for a good reason?
4. Am I in any way affecting the creator's ability to mae money on his /her woe

I thought that this article The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use was great in giving examples of what is okay for teachers to use. 

There are many times when students have taken work form other people (including a picture) and not cited the work. I will deduct points or even give a zero depending on the severity of the act. Students do not understand that they are plagiarizing and violating rules and laws. I find that they have not been educated in what is okay to use and what is not oaky to use.  When this happens I usually try to make it a learning situation. I make students watch a video like this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJipA52LOms

and have them explain to me what rule/law they violated. I will often let them correct their work for credit with the understanding that if it happens again they will receive a zero for their work. 

What is the best way to establish and maintain a flourishing DLC where citizens understand, observe, and are inclined to willingly support and ultimately benefit from Digital Rights and Responsibilities?

Having clear set guidelines that ever citizen in the DLC use and follow is the best way to establish and maintain a DLC that is respectful of other sand their works.  There should be clear instruction on what is acceptable and what is not. For GaVS this would include educating teachers about what and what they can not use. GaVs does this by having us go through training such as TOOL and will often remind us about AUP materials in facility developments. Because our students all have varying degrees of knowledge about DLC, GaVS puts into place code of conduct for everyone within the DLC. students are informed of later work policy, plagiarism policy, etc. As another component of the SOC I think students need to be taught and tested on AUP/plagiarism guidelines so that they truly get what is plagiarism. As I have taught Biology AB this summer session, I have lied in teh rubrics how students are getting points for their citations for projects and labs. This forces students to document where they are getting their materials and provides a scaffolding for teaching them to document the work of other.