Plagiarism and Copyright

Question 1: http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/plag.ht

Question 2: To plagiarize is to take and use another person's thoughts, writings as your own, without acknowledging or giving the source of the ideas.

Question 3: To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use another person’s idea, opinion, or theory.

Question 4:

Plagiarism is using someone else’s idea (usually a written idea) without giving proper credit for the idea,

Copyright infringement is using someone else’s creative idea, which can include a song, a video, a movie clip, a piece of visual art, a photograph, and other creative works, without authorization or compensation, if compensation is appropriate.

Resources:
http://www.ncte.org/pubs/chron/highlights/122872.htm
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml#strategies

BL1 > Part 1: CUFADM02A Posting: What is a Blog & How I Will Use My Blog

So what is a Blog you ask... well a blog is eerrrr *googles blog*

for starters the term blog is derived from web log, just take out the W and E "BLOG" durrr!, which means to maintain or add content to a blog?

If you asked people 2 years ago what a blog was they wouldn’t have a clue, these days they've become pretty mainstream, blogs are basically an online journal or even news articles posted by usually an individual onto the internet for all public to see.
A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic, some blogs focus on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting).

I got info from the respectful http://www.wikipedia.org site
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So how will I be using this blog you ask...

For the purposed of my WebCT Copyright online course, to demonstrate set study, research and homework tasks, demonstrate team activities, and as a creative and Intellectual ranting space for my brain...how scary!
, but more personally to find out what’s the big deal about blogs coz I've never made one myself.

BL1 > Part 1: CUFADM02A Posting: About Me

I am a multimedia student living and studying in Brisbane which I just moved from the gold coast. My interest include (wow this feels like a dating site) ahem...ummmm martial arts, Japanese culture, ninjas, samurai, photography, beaches, movies, music, technology, military stuff, graphic design, web design, 3D, video editing, anime, Bruce lee, video games, internet, medieval stuff the list goes on.

so anyhoo I was introduced to computer graphics when I was 15 and my dad gave me a book on html which I read front to back and fell in love with web design, I started of using Paint Shop Pro which was easy and basic to learn then I got my hands on Photoshop, a couple of years later I decided I wanted to do special Effects for film and TV, after watching films like The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings its all I wanted to do. So after high school I got a course for an advanced Diploma of Screen which i finish in a few weeks.

I'm constantly trying to push myself into this field for I believe its the only thing I truly want in a career, I've spent 2 years now pursuing the 3D world and now realising how difficult it is, it really will take some time to get comfortable with, I think of myself as my own competition as I always think every work I do is not good enough therefore I try to get better and better, I really want to get to a level where I can express my ideas to the fullest.

Regards Steve