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"Humpback Whale Webquest Are you ready for a Whale of an Adventure?"

"Insects 4th grade"

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"Welcome to Forensic Science"

"This site is for teachers and educators of all grade levels and subject areas. It hosts short tutorial videos on many of the best digital tools to use with students. Its also a growing community of ideas submitted by teachers for classroom use." This should be a great resource!

A study showing how social networking is contributing to cheating.

There is so much information available now to people that plagiarism is easier and more tempting.

"Plagiarism is cheating, it is dishonest, and it is unethical." The first way to avoid students from plagiarizing is to set clear expectations in a written format that provides concrete examples. There are programs such as Glatt Plagarism Services that can be used to detect plagerism. By giving students a good background on the importance of citing ideas, topics, and quotes and providing them with how to cite correctly, they will be less tempted to plagiarize. As educators we can take many steps to provide support for our students so that they do not plagiarize.

This is but the first few paragraphs of an article describing the use of collaborative methods and technologies in the classroom. It compares what goes on in a collaborative classroom to that in a creative business. To bad one has to either buy the article or subscribe to read it all.