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As we move into Week 4, we will continue examining quality in
interactive webpublishing by focusing on the ethics of online
publishing.  We are continuing to build the foundation of good
publishing practices before inititating our attempt at building our own
personal learning communities.

Our goals for week 4:

• Discuss pertinent issues from the Week 3 readings.  Reflect
  upon our current writing styles and personal publishing practices in
  light of these issues. 
• Examine the ethical and legal implications of personal
  webpublishing.  This includes how to reference, quote, and
  attribute content to other sources.  We will also look at using
  Creative Commons licenses as a convenient way of setting
  legal guidelines for distributing our work. 
• Examine reflective weblogs outside of our learning community
  and compare them with what we have already learned about what makes a
  good weblog.
• Review posting and commenting procedures, as well as when and how to use news item postings and stories.

Our readings for Week 4:

• Blood R (2002) ‘Weblog ethics’ excert from the Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Weblog Cambridge, MA: Peresus
• Smith E (2004) ‘Can Copyright Be Saved?: New ideas to make intellectual property work in the digital age’ from Wall Street Journal January 2004

Resources:

• Creative Commons Organization

Our tasks for Week 4:

• Do the readings and reflect upon the importance of ethical
  personal publishing practices.  Prepare questions for classroom
  discussion.
• Find
  a ‘reflective weblog’ outside of our center and evaluate it with what
  we have already learned about what makes a good weblog.  Introduce
  that weblog to the rest of us in a news item posting or in class.
• Quote another weblog or online article in a news item posting and attribute the source correctly.
• Study the creative commons organization’s website.  Decide
  whether or not it is necessary or beneficial for what we’d like to
  accomplish on our websites.  Think about the fundamental meaning
  of copyright and whether or not each of us agrees with it.  Is
  there such a thing as ‘intellectual property’?  How do each of us
  feel about that?

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