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Many educators have a nagging concern that students will plagiarize work submitted for key written assignments. That is why experts in the field of academic integrity, such as Donald McCabe, have long suggested that a method to avoid plagiarism is to use guided research projects. A guided research project is one that is scaffolded into stages, such as an outline, a few drafts, and then a final submission. Guided research brings transparency to the writing process.

The Dropbox tool

is a powerful tool for implementing guided research strategies

Twitter hashtags can connect you to people and conversations all over the world … 

The Hashtag: A Door to Discovery on Twitter

The hashtag has a metadata value. This means that all the content and conversations using hashtags can be discovered, mined and organized through search.