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18 Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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10 Emerging Technologies 2010 - 0 views

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    "10 Emerging Technologies 2010"
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Detecting Plagiarism for Free - Learn How to Prevent Plagiarism in Your Classroom - 0 views

  • Quick Facts 80% of college students admit to cheating at least once. (Center for Academic Integrity) 52% of 1,800 students at nine state universities had copied several sentences from a website without citation. (McCabe, D.L.) More than two-thirds of 2,100 students from 21 campuses copied or plagiarized work done by another student (Center for Academic Integrity) 15% of high school students admit to obtaining a paper from a term paper mill or website (Plagiarism.org) 50% of high-school students surveyed by Rutgers University see nothing wrong with cheating (McCabe, D.L. ) 90% of students believe that cheaters are either never caught or have never been appropriately disciplined (US News and World Report)
  • Free Tools for Detecting Plagiarism Google and Google Scholar: If a sentence strikes you as odd, put it in quotation marks and run a Google search on it. If the student cut and pasted the phrase, it will show up on Google. And as more books are uploaded onto Google Books, Google Scholar and Google Books will become increasingly powerful weapons against plagiarism. The Plagiarism Checker: The Plagiarism Checker allows you to run a Google search on large blocks of text. This is easier than cutting and pasting sentence after sentence. Articlechecker: Works the same as Plagiarism Checker, but gives you the option of checking against Yahoo as well as Google. Plagium: Like The Plagiarism Checker, this site Googles text you submit. Unlike most other checkers, Plagium works in several languages. PlagiarismDetect: A plagiarism detector that allows you to upload whole documents rather than cutting and pasting blocks of text. It's free, but you have to register. Duplichecker: Another checker that plugs submitted text into search engines. Duplichecker's interface makes it easy to submit entire documents as well as excerpts. SeeSources: Searches the Web for sources similar to the text you entered. You can scan both excerpts and whole documents. DOC Cop: Doc Cop offers a few features more than the minimal Web-based detection services. For instance, you can check for collusion—that is, you can check the similarity between two papers. However, you do have to register. WCopyFind: WCopyFind is a downloadable scanner that checks for similarities between two papers, but it can't search the Web. Viper: The Anti-Plagiarism Scanner. Although it's free, Viper is software, so it's a bit more of a commitment than Web-based tools. However, it has some neat features, such as side-by-side comparisons of the submitted text with the potentially plagiarized one. Viper touts itself as the free alternative to TurnItIn. SafeAssign/MyDropBox: This is free if you're already using a Blackboard Learning System. As students submit papers to Blackboard, SafeAssign checks their papers against its database of source material. PAIRwise: PAIRwise (Paper Authorship Integrity Research) can compare documents to one another while searching the internet for similar documents. However, PAIRwise is intended for use on an institutional level—for departmental or college-wide servers.
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The Innovative Educator: 5 Steps to Harnessing the Power of Cells in Education Today - 0 views

  • The five steps are:Step One: Teacher Use of Cell Phones for Professional PurposesStep Two: Teacher Models Appropriate Use for LearningStep Three: Strengthen the Home-School Connection with Cell PhonesStep Four: Students Use Cell Phones for HomeworkStep Five: Students Use Cell Phones for Classwork
  • Three Ideas for using cell phones for professional purposes. Use Polleverywhere to conduct staff surveys that would be useful and interesting to share with students and the school community. Use Twitter and have the updates feed into your class or school blog, website, or wiki to reinforce the home/school connection and build class/school pride.Set up Google Voice to serve as your personal secretary who will transcribe your messages and enable you to easily share with others.
  • Three Ideas for modeling appropriate use of cells for learningIt goes without saying then when modeling appropriate use of cells you do not have your phone ring or make any type of noise not related to instruction. With that as a given, here are three ideas.Model for your students how you use your cell phone to support your work using the phone for basic features like alarm clock, calendar, calculator, stop watch, note taking.Demonstrate how you can use your phone to gain information instantly using Google SMS or ChaCha.Use your cell phone as a camera often to capture student work and events and load them to Flickr so they can be embedded in your class or school website, wiki or blog.
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  • Three Ideas for using cells to strengthen the home school connectionUse group texting through your phone provider or through a service like Swaggle to send out reminders to parents.Show parents/families/guardians their thoughts and opinions matter. Poll them or request open response using a tool like Polleverywhere. Text home to celebrate student success or reach out via text if there is an area of concern. This can be done quickly with minimal disruption to either party.
  • Three Ideas for enabling students to use cell phones for homeworkUsing cell phones to enrich learning makes a lot of sense for schools and districts that ban students from using personal learning devices at schools and enables educational leaders interesting in changing policy to gain some evidence of how these tools can benefit student learning.Use ChaCha to connect your students to a free network of thousands of guides who can help them when they get stuck and/or have no one around to help. Have students do their oral reports using Google Voice. If they don't like how they sounded the first time, they don't have to send the message. They can re-record until they have something with which they are happy.Test prior knowledge of a unit your class is about to study and use Wifitti to have students share one thing they know about the subject.
  • Three Ideas for Empowering Students in the Use of Cell Phones for LearningYou're going on a field trip. Ask students to determine how they might want to use cell phones to meet the learning goals of the trip using tools most phones have. They may decide to Tweet for a scavenger hunt, send reflections to Wifitti or capture pictures with captures to Flickr.You're about to learn about a new country or explore your own neighborhood. Ask students for ideas to meet learning goals using their cells. Have them use Google SMS to collect data about the area.Students are asked to share how hard work impacted someone influential in their lives. Invite them to use cell phones if they'd like. Perhaps they use a Voki character with a phone to record their voice. Maybe they'll suggest a Drop.io account is set up where the subject and people s/he knows can share experiences. Perhaps they set up a Google Voice account to capture responses.
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