Academic Integrity
It is in your best interest to practice honesty, integrity, and ethical behavior in this course to prepare yourself for professional and personal endeavors. Students are also responsible for supporting a positive learning environment were respect, diversity, and appropriate handling of conflict is in the best interest of the community of learners. Review the policies and take the blackboard exam to demonstrate that you are familiar with key aspects of your responsibilities in the course.
You agree by participating in this course that you will adhere to the following:
1. UTK Student handbook - Hilltopics:
Students in this course are expected to meet all obligations for academic honesty in this course as outlined in Hilltopics. You are to review and be familiar with the "Academic Policies and Procedures" section in the student handbook.
Submission of all work must clearly reference all ideas, written passages, visual images, movies, sound files, or similar that is not of your independent creation.
If you are in doubt of meeting any academic standard you are to meet with the instructor prior to submission of assignments.
2. Studio Culture:
Students in this course are to review and adhere to the College of Architecture and Design Culture Policy.
http://www.arch.utk.edu/Resources/studioculturepolicy.shtml
3. Group Work Policies:
Participation in group work is essential for an enriched course experience. The following polices are created to reward cooperation and collaboration that builds synergy, synthesis, and outcomes greater than one individual can achieve on their own.
Group Assignments
A. All bibliographies, references, and source materials (movies, images, quotes, and similar) are to be used and referenced identically on all team submissions.
B. Each team member is to develop their own unique written narrative or design solution supported by identical group source material and bibliographies.
C. All team submissions are to clearly identify the primary author and collaborating team members. Link to contributing team members blog entries in the bibliography section of your group work.
Primary Author: (Your Name)
Collaborating Team Member 1: (Collaborating Team Member)
Collaborating Team Member 2: (Optional)
You are allowed a maximum of two collaborating team members per assignment. (Maximum 3 members per team.)
You are only allowed to participate on one team per assignment.
Online Group Reviews
Points in the course can be earned by providing substantive critical input on your peers work. When posting online reviews of peer work for points you are to approach the review in a manner that is respectful and in the spirit of assistance that results in improvement in future efforts.
Online team reviews consist of you providing a reference website or resource and reviewing the peer work in relation to the chosen referenced source.
4. Providing Attribution and Referencing Work
The design profession has a history of building upon ideas of those who have come before us. It is in your best interest to develop the skills of recognizing those who have provided the knowledge and ideas to allows us to stand in our current position in time and culture. We are also charged as designers to think of the future. We transform and reinvent ideas, recognizing the importance of what ideas to carry forward and what ideas to leave behind. While creativity often celebrates original achievements, these achievements are based upon the work of others. As you complete assignments keep track of the works of others that influence your own creative directions.
As required by assignments create a bibliography. This bibliography is to list all reference material used for your work regardless of direct quotations or direct reference to images.
In the bibliography provide the following:
Author(s), Year of Publication, Name of Publication or Website, Page number if you provide a quote.
(Hot link to the original web source if available.)
If you post a image that is not of your own on your blog site only post by linking to the original source. (Do not copy and past the image.) Place the image citation in the caption and bibliography.
5. Understand and practice your responsibility with copyright on your website.
Copyright is provides standards for use of your work or your use of someone else’s work. It is essential that you are able to understand and employ copyright practices in this course. Copyright infringement related to your public website is an academic misconduct violation in this course.
It is very plausible that you can provided a correct reference and cite work correctly and violate copyright restrictions. For example you could copy and paste an image of an interior of an exhibition design found on the web and reference the website and photographer correctly. But the reuse of the image without knowing the fair use of the material could be in violation of the copyright restrictions. The photographer or the owner of the website may not allow you to copy and reuse the work. The owner has the right to the commercial benefits to their work and how it is used. Copyright protects these rights.
The bottom line?
Do not post, copy, or reuse any work (images, sound files, etc..) that is not marked by the owner for fair use in your context. Fair use is a standard, not what you may think is fair use. If in doubt do not copy the work. You can make a direct links (hyperlinks) to the work without copy and pasting the work.
How do I know if something is is fair use in my situation?
Review the following websites:
http://creativecommons.org/about (Watch the video: Want to Work Together)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/07/copyright-explained-i-may-copy-it-right/
Help with copyright:
If you are in doubt or need assistance with a copyright issues discuss the matter with a University of Tennessee librarian.
6. Requirements for Squarespace hosted content as part of a class.
Posting content (webpages, images, videos, etc…) on the internet is a powerful tool to allow the general public to have immediate access to the most current information you create at the University of Tennessee. All publicly assessable content created as part of a course or program requirement reflect on you and the University. This document is only for required course or program work. With this in mind we ask that you adhere to the following.
ACT AS EVERYTHING YOU POST ON YOUR PORTFOLIO CAN BE READ AND SEEN BY ANYONE*
1. Keep your content secure
Most students will want show off their work to the world! But if you don't want the general public to access your work you can secure all or some of your content. You can provide access to just the instructor or a select group of your choice. You are responsible for securing your site. If you are unsure about security/privacy issues notify the instructor prior to posting the information.
2. Keep your content relevant to UTK academic work
Feel free to post projects, thoughts, critical comments, reflections, and other information as related to your classes and other academic sponsored activities at the University of Tennessee.
3. Keep your content and online persona professional
Your content and external links should be used to build a professional persona for yourself and advance your academic and professional career
Do not use the LAST name of the course instructor(s) within your website without their permission. (This is to keep search engine traffic to their sites.)
SECURITY and PRIVACY
You must adhere to the following When posting hosted content as part of a class or other program requirement.
- Security and Access -- If you must decide if your site is be only accessible to the members of the class or if you wish to remain anonymous you adhere to following. You must always follow the minim security setting
- If you wish to protect your anonymity in a course course notify the professor or staff member prior to posting any content or if possible subscribing to hosting services.
- Follow all instructions provided by service providers (squarespace, vimeo, ect…) for keeping your content protected and secured'
- If you are in doubt in regard to your privacy settings you are to notify the instructor prior to posting the work.
- Follow all security and or other settings and configurations that may be outlined in specific projects by UTK faculty and staff.
- It is ultimately your responsibility to keep your content secure.