Ms. Rios will present on professional ethics to help students through high school and college. She discusses plagiarism as taking credit for another's work or ideas, and how to avoid it by giving proper credit. She also defines copyright as the exclusive legal rights of creators over distribution and derivatives of their work. The presentation concludes by defining privacy rights, challenged materials, and internet ethics regarding appropriate online resource use.

1. Good Morning!
• My name is Ms. Rios and today I will be
presenting to you a short presentation on
professional ethics. This will help you
throughout high school and college.

2. What is plagiarism?
the practice of taking someone else's
work or ideas and passing them off
as one's own.

3. How to Avoid Plagiarism
• To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit
whenever you use
• another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
• any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces
of information—that are not common
knowledge;
• quotations of another person’s actual spoken or
written words; or
• paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written
words.

4. What is copyright?
• the exclusive legal right, given to an originator
or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film,
or record literary, artistic, or musical material,
and to authorize others to do the same.

5. What that means is that, as the author of the work, you alone have
the right to do any of the following or to let others do any of the
following:
• make copies of your work;
• distribute copies of your work;
• perform your work publicly (such as for plays, film, dances or music);
• display your work publicly (such as for artwork, or stills from
audiovisual works, or any material used on the Internet or television);
and
• make “derivative works” (including making modifications, adaptations or
other new uses of a work, or translating the work to another media).
http://www.copyrightkids.org/whatcopyframes.htm

6. What’s Right to privacy?
right to be free of unsanctioned intrusion
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=right%20to%20privacy

7. What is challenged materials?
• Books and other resources that are identified by concerned
citizen(s) with an expressed desire to remove them from the
library collection. . (ALA/AASL Standards for Initial Programs
for School Library Media Specialist Preparation)
• http://www.p12.nysed.gov/technology/library/SLMPE_rubric/Glossary_SLMPE_rubric.ht
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8. What is internet ethics?
• Internet ethics generally focus on the
appropriate use of online resources.
• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-internet-ethics.htm