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This post focuses on： The Weapons of War [Hate the metaphor!], The Problems with the Solutions, Setting Up for Failure, and Is There a Better Way? [title case applied]. "There's also an ethical issue with plagiarism checkers - the questionable use of students' work as a money maker for these services. ... Turnitin and the other services are making money off of content that they did not create. Perhaps worse, unlike Facebook where the content owner typically uploads it willingly, students have no say in whether their paper is uploaded by the teacher to the plagiarism checker. Many students and teachers are less than thrilled by this idea. Turnitin has specifically claimed fair use in defense of its use of this content, and in 2008 Turnitin's parent company iParadigms won a lawsuit brought against the company by four students claiming copyright violation. In its ruling, the court agreed that the content's use was indeed fair. 'It is clear that iParadigms' use of the Plaintiff's works has caused no harm to the market value of these works,' Judge Claude Hilton ruled at the time. That has not stopped faculty and students from having qualms about the use of students' papers in a for-profit enterprise." (The Problems with the Solution, para. 4-7)

Pho.to site offers a number of online services for photo editing, photo fun and sharing. All of them use our best digital imaging technologies and are designed to make your digital photography experience even more convenient and fun.

"Student photos, and especially linking names with specific photos, is a common concern that comes up when blogging, sharing videos, or using other web services online. / Information that helps someone identify a student should always be shared with care" (Sue Waters, September 26, 2013).

"1: Introduction to Blogs 2: Subscribing to Blogs 3: Developing Your Blog 4: Choosing a Blog Service 5: Writing and Promoting Your Blog 6: Copyright and Fair Use"

Univ. of Southampton's evaluation of a "Web 2.0 Service" offers a brief description and assessments from three perspectives: 1) accessibility, 2) disability-tailoring, and 3) activities for which Type with Me is useful, namely: a) Group Discussion; b) Text-based Editable Information [compilation], c) Note Taking, and d)Collaborative Writing.

"The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus making it specific to academic contexts. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at colleges and universities." This page gives a compact listing of all the word families in the AWL, divided by sublist, each word linked to a simple definition page.

Although this entire document focuses on N. American higher education settings (Part One, ¶1), Part Two: Guidelines for Writing and Writing-Intensive Courses will interest and hopefully inform administrators, course designers, program planners, and teachers working in other regional and perhaps even global contexts as well. Part two covers: Class Size, Assignment Design, Assessment, Textual Borrowing, Teacher Preparation, and resource provisions. Part Four: Guidelines for Teacher Preparedness will interest those involved in teacher education, or pre- and in-service teacher development. Part Six comprises an extensive bibliography for further reading.

Introduces free service, points out FAQs and tutorials, users' discussion space, and lesson plan database

"The Purdue OWL offers global support through online reference materials and services" (Mission, ¶1, 2011.05.10).

Harrington suggests that plagiarism is endemic, and that originality reports from automated checking services enable writers to polish their work to make plagiarism difficult to detect. 

Delcore, Tenient-Matson, and Mullooly (2014) used findings from this study to delineate an on-campus space-use continuum that can be used for planning and renovating IT-related facilities, infrastructures, and services.

Quick summary of practices for consumers

Thanks to Carla for bookmarking this! Her Delicious bookmark showed up in MyBlogLog, and made me wonder whether she's using Diigo to propagate her bookmarks.

61 tips from Judith V. Boettcher, up till fall 2008: "This set of ecoaching tips is for faculty who are designing and teaching online courses and blended campus courses" (Designing for Learning - Consulting, Advising and Facilitating, http://www.designingforlearning.info/index.html, retrieved 2009.09.18).