Thursday+Notes


 * Thoughts on plagiarism**

We teach research papers for a variety of reasons:
 * Writing is an essential skill.
 * Research papers are traditional.
 * Research papers are the best way to develop certain skills.
 * Research papers demonstrate a synthesis of ideas.
 * They encourage students to master the process.

Students plagiarize for a variety of reasons: Middle School Thoughts Plagiarism Resistant Writing Assignments – Middle School Group –
 * Lack of knowledge regarding citation
 * Lack of confidence in their skills, resulting in fear of failure, fear of taking a risk, and pressure
 * Time management issues
 * Lack of engagement in the writing task
 * Because it's easier than writing
 * Because they can
 * They don't understand that they can be proud of their writing.

1) Bud – Not Buddy book - Read in small groups Keep log – Essay – not more than a page – Write about the Great Depression – pick a topic – Hooverville issues with Wikipedia – How would they have felt if they had to give up their home? Perhaps plagiarize facts about the depression – but making it a personal essay…

2) Use a Blog - adapt independent reading to I-SEARCH – after each book, perhaps 2 books each quarter – have a list of mandatory projects then some optional – 3 quotations that they liked and then describe why they chose it – from the optional choice – pick one poem, one painting, architecture – compare/contrast to book – finally write down a working idea about what they want to do as a final project….Keep all records in Blog -

3) In order to be plagiarism resistant the activity needs to be creative – students need to process…

4) Open up choices – pre-reading questions – lots of in class writing time – creative presentation format

5) Langston Hughes – all students start with the same chapter of book – color code sections – as homework they write the childhood paragraph – step by step process – modeled work – “That’s a little too close to what you read…”

6) Pick topic that was hard to plagiarize – Set up check points – look at note cards, outline etc. Alert students to how I find plagiarism – kid words – let kids know their thinking process…

7) Blogging for Constitutional Convention – Respond to each other’s blogs…

Here are the points from the Upper School Teacher discussion regarding plagiarism remedies. • checklists for students • sources, notes • multimedia • iSearch student asks questions.....go over plagiarism • peer editing how efficient are your citations does • have students write first paragraph in class • notecards index cards with notes • multimedia project...iMovies source list • How do they learn to respect intellectual property? • publishing their work on a Wiki • Show them old student papers • choose authentic topics • turnitin.com-watchdog for papers • personal investment is important • Address this question—What is the purpose of literature? Tie it into to their research. • it has to allow for discovery ownership • IB program oral presentation and written presentation their defense


 * Improving Writing & Editing/ Teaching With New & Emerging Technologies (Thursday)**

I-Tunes
 * Podcasts and Podcasting

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PODCASTING 1) Create podcast—record and edit functions 2) Record + you need audio editor capability--Need garageband for mac or audacity for PC

WE are recording in an aiff file, not mp3, for high quality file format to record. Sometimes it’s a wav file. Next, we save in compact file format, mp3 player. Intuitive user tools found.

A photocast and voice cast, but only recording—no editing
 * Voicethread

You will need an audio editor to splice various audios together-- Be sure you’re in Garage Band 3 Track – New Track – Real Instrument – Create Delete metronome: Control and deselect metronome
 * Garage Band

Downloaded and also downloaded the LAME plugin to convert the files to mp3 files Still having problems b/c need to import audio files to use as background
 * Audacity

CAMERA Videos to connect directly to your computer and also to take to Walgreens to have a DVD made: theflip.com · Word preferences, file statistics, file readability, inserting comments, auto-correct, track changes, comparing documents - Go to Tools, Options, and reset Spelling/grammar checker-- Reset the File properties - Auto-Correct options—create comments “like explain your points in more detail” by using shortcuts—-create a misspelled word code to correlate with a comment to replace it - Check if two documents are the same: With document open, go to Tools, Compare and Merge Documents, open the second document, click on Merge as a New Document. You’ll see the changes/difference. - Check the File properties of a document to see its authorship/user stats. File, Properties, Statistics.

Markit program to create grading symbol codes Keytext

· Plagiarism: Google; turnitin; Research writing cites: Easybib.com, knightcite.com, citationmachine.com, Etc.

· Emerging Tools (plus “old” favorites): Google Earth, Second Life, online social communities, etc GOOGLE EARTH (Googleearthhacks) Google earth takes up a lot of space on the harddrive. You can overlay images on the earth view.

Googlelittrips.com you must first download Google Earth and then download the lit trip to supplement it

RSS – Real Simple Syndication RSS Feeds – XML coding You need an XML translator to catch it (an aggregator) RSS Aggregators – **bloglines.com** signs you up to receive the feeds you want from a number of sites, every time the site(s) is updated, and limit getting too many sources You can sign up for the updates from blogline or from the actual site (ex: weblogg-ed.com has RSS or XML, which will send to blogline to read the feeds for you)

· Survey/conclusion