The+New+World+of+Bibliography

__Plagarism and Ethicial Citing of Information__

The mentioned article "Students' Privacy Rights in School Libraries: Balancing Principles, Ethics and Practices" by Donna Riehl gives us a perspective of the dynamics of our jobs as teacher librarians. One aspect of this article is bibliographies and citing. Below is a practical approach to this subject.

Ms. Suarez, the Teacher Librarian at one of the biggest High Schools in Surrey, has noticed one too many students who have come up to her and asked her how to cite their source for their upcoming science project. So, she decided to present an informative lesson on citing to a few classes. She brings up the topic in the staff room and the classroom teachers are happy that she will go over this concept with the classes involves. She goes about preparing her lesson and puts together a short powerpoint presentation. The first powerpoint slide reads: ====Would you steal Ms. Suarez's car? Then, why would you "steal" information without citing your sources? Make sure that your understanding our Schools Plaigarism Policy or you could land yourself in Hot Water!====

Then she clicks on the link below and start to go through what plagarism is by first engaging students in what they think it is and then going over the points in the link below.

[|http://fcweb.sd36.bc.ca/%7esuarez_l/plagiarism]
Next she would scatter groups of students to the stacks to bring back a book in order to have a hands on experience and practice firsthand how to cite using APA and MLA styles. She would go over both styles from the link below, show concrete examples of how to cite and then have students practice.

[|http://fcweb.sd36.bc.ca/%7esuarez_l/bibliography]
Once students have had a chance to practice citing their book(s), they would type it up onto their class wiki and then the teacher would take a look at their bibliography example either during class or for the next lesson. To finish off the lesson the teacher would give two examples of interactive web tools to help create citations: Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/) and Easybib (http://www.easybib.com/)

Teaching students about copyright infringement need not be a sermon. Looking for a fun way to convey a serious message? This website provides interactive animated games that are grouped by age that cover various types of information theft. http://www.playitcybersafe.cojodylhm/pdfs/TG-CopyrightCrusader-2005.pdf

Practical ways of teaching students about citing and bibliographies will give them the tools they need to be successful, and if will keep them out of hot water!