A Guide to Using MuseumBox: The Do’s and Don’ts of Online Web-Based Tools First we are going to be looking at general internet guidelines and then more MuseumBox specific guidelines!

Personal information: Stranger Danger! Mysterious Links: Don’t Follow Rabbithole! Questionable Downloads: NO-LOAD! Mysterious Program: Don’t Click! Know Your Senders! Attachments: Be Cautious!

Don’t Friend Strangers! Even if their picture is attractive! Stay Within Known Circles! Privacy First! Lock down your account! Hide your hometown, state, age, school and anything else that could give you away to strangers! Don’t Volunteer Information! Be Cautious Above All Else!

Material must be free to use! Argh! No Piracy of materials! Respect copyrights of owners! Ask permission from owners! Cite your sources when applicable! Don’t modify work of others!

Copyrights exist for a LONG time! Before 1923; you can use things however! After 1923: you must get permission to use! If you’re not sure, ask the owner or copyright holder!

Don’t copy and not cite! Coping without citing is plagiarism! Whether it’s intentional or not! Always cite, correctly the first time! Don’t pass off other work as your own!

Check with your teacher for approved citation methods! APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago, etc… Always cite your sources, whatever they may be! Cite correctly, the first time to avoid problems! Cite whether you’re not sure you should or not!

If you can add information in your own words without needing to paraphrase or citing, great! If not, make sure you cite and add quotation marks wherever appropriate! You can’t be too careful! Information comes from all over; make sure you get a good source that is trust-worthy and reliable. Trust-worthiness and reliability: usually something that’s already been published! Cite, cite, cite! And make sure to quote if unsure!

When adding historical pictures, cite where you obtained them from, making sure to give credit to the original artist/creator/photographer of the content When incorporating videos, make sure you have the permission to include or embed them into MuseumBox. If you’re not sure, ask the creators/filmmakers!

Make sure historical images are accurate and not modern-day reproductions! Stay authentic! When using videos, the same goes, try to stay authentic and use video from that time period (if any exists!) and if not, get interviews or documentaries as needed!

If adding pictures of you and your friends, make sure you have permission to upload images of yourself and your friends. Not everyone wants to be photographed! Use first names only and if you have to identify yourselves at all, use your teacher’s and school’s name to identify where you are from!

When obtaining sounds or audio files from the internet for MuseumBox use, get permission and cite your sources accordingly! If they are reproduced audio files of instruments that are no longer around, try to get accurate sounding files that are supported by other websites! Don’t include sounds if there aren’t any! Not everything has to have sounds!

Get it? A Wrap? Because we’re talking about MuseumBox? This has been a very brief, but hopefully detailed look at appropriate and safe internet use, as well as dealing with ethical and moral quandaries such as whether or not to cite, source and quote material that is or isn’t yours. Short answer: always cite information if it’s not yours! See you in class! – Mr. Logan