You have already published a piece of your own. Today you will think about what it means to publish responsibly. First you will audit three sample pieces, which means looking at each one carefully using four checks. The pieces were made up for this lesson and are not anyone's real work. Then you will write the standards you will stick to whenever you publish.

Publishing responsibly means checking your work before it goes public, using these four checks.

• Credits: say who made each image, clip, quote or fact you borrowed, where it came from, and what its licence allows. The licence is usually shown where you found the item, and it tells you whether you may reuse it.
• Safe and respectful: you can give a strong opinion, but do not attack or shame anyone or put anyone at risk, including yourself.
• Consent and rights: consent means permission, so nobody else’s photo, message, name or story goes in unless they have clearly said yes.
• Honest AI: if an AI tool wrote or changed any part of the piece, say so plainly.

As a class, work through Piece A, the first sample piece. Think about the four checks, and then decide whether it should get Pass or Needs fixing. Be ready to say which check made up your mind. After that, you will each vote on all three pieces in the class poll, using your own device.

Now you each vote on every piece on your own device. Round 1 is Piece A, the one you just worked through together.

• Read the piece and make your call.
• When the reasoning comes up, compare it with your own reason.

Now make your own one-page publishing-standards card, which you can keep and use again later. A standard is a rule you set for yourself.

Before you finish, check that your card has these things:

• At least four standards you will stick to whenever you publish online. You can start from today’s four checks and put them in your own words.
• One clear habit beside each standard. A habit is something you will actually do every time to keep that standard.
• One extra standard that matters to you. Think about the good and bad sides of sharing work in public. For example, more people can hear what you think, but you may not be able to take a post back once it is up. Pick one good side to keep or one risk to cut, and write a standard and a habit for it.

When you are done, save your card the class way, in the place your class keeps its work, so that it is still there next lesson.

Here is one finished line to show how clear yours should be. The standard comes first, and then the habit that keeps it.