I have been pondering the whole notion of plagiarism. When I taught Survey of American Lit. 1 & 2 online last year, I required my students to do "Multimedia Presentations." A majority of them uploaded a ton of information about a particular author, along with images, into Powerpoint slid shows and posted them. They were indignant when I accused them of Plagiarism and told them that they needed to document their souces, use in-text citations for all quotes, paraphrases, summaries, and images, and include a Works Cited page. Of course, all this had been explained on the Assignment Sheet under Course Documents, along with specific examples of Pp presentations from previous classes--which none of them had bothered to consult.
In my English 1120 classes, I also require them to use a parenthetical citation for any images they use in the body of their research paper and include a separate citation for the image on the Works Cited page.
Am I being too "old school" here? Nobody today said a word about citing the sources of images that we incorporate either into our course handouts or Powerpoint presentations?
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Today's Workshop
I found today's workshop activites very useful. I liked the poetry assignment very much, and I think my group found real value in searching for images that were representative of our interpretation of the poem. The assignment allowed us to be creative, and I enjoyed that.
More later!!
I'm pretty overwhelmed, but the trial by fire this morning was helpful. I am getting a little better at PowerPoint which is a big accomplishment for me. Hope that when I get back home to my iMac I can transfer some of these skills to it.
What I learned today
I had never used Power Point before, and I am excited at the opportunities it presents for making material more interesting. Also, Google Images is amazing! What a treasure trove! I am looking forward to building on my skills and playing around with these ideas.
Monday, February 16, 2009
musings
As Jayne notes, most of the publishing companies have companion websites and want us to use their product with the idea that the website comes with the package. There is composing space there as well as our Blackboard site and blogs. While we probably all "feel the need" to incorporate technology into the classroom, I find it somewhat overwhellming trying to decide what might be most appropraite
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Choosing among media:
I'd like to see (or have us develop) some kind of list of the uses/advantages/disadvantages for personal/professional/pedogogical purposes of the many and multiplying types of electronic communication. Clearly, few of us will want to be blogging, Blackboard discussion-boarding, e-mailing, tweetering (whatever that is), texting, using My Space and Facebook, etc. all at the same time, at least not if we also plan to eat, sleep, and, heavens to Betsy, read a book! Sometimes, and I hate to admit this so publically, I actually use an old fashioned landline telephone WITH A CORD! And I have been known to (with a sense of guilt) talk to one person on the phone while e-mailing another from my desk. Clearly, in our personal lives we've all made choices about which forms of communication we prefer and which we choose to use within a single relationship. And of course these choices evolve, though probably not as quickly as they do for our students or at work. So, when it comes to work, I appreciate being introduced to a variety of media, but I'd like to have a chart where I can see in one place the various features/uses/etc. of my options. Is there such a thing? Because I just cannot gorge on all this stuff at once!
I'd like to see (or have us develop) some kind of list of the uses/advantages/disadvantages for personal/professional/pedogogical purposes of the many and multiplying types of electronic communication. Clearly, few of us will want to be blogging, Blackboard discussion-boarding, e-mailing, tweetering (whatever that is), texting, using My Space and Facebook, etc. all at the same time, at least not if we also plan to eat, sleep, and, heavens to Betsy, read a book! Sometimes, and I hate to admit this so publically, I actually use an old fashioned landline telephone WITH A CORD! And I have been known to (with a sense of guilt) talk to one person on the phone while e-mailing another from my desk. Clearly, in our personal lives we've all made choices about which forms of communication we prefer and which we choose to use within a single relationship. And of course these choices evolve, though probably not as quickly as they do for our students or at work. So, when it comes to work, I appreciate being introduced to a variety of media, but I'd like to have a chart where I can see in one place the various features/uses/etc. of my options. Is there such a thing? Because I just cannot gorge on all this stuff at once!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
welcome!
this is the virtual writing space I set up for the workshops - to give you the opportunity to participate in a blog and think about whether it might work as a writing space for your classes. But also to give you all the space for a shared conversation that might continue on after our workshops are over. we did so much good work on friday - there is so much good teaching going on at lakeland and so many great ideas to be shared with each other. as people have already suggested on the blackboard discussion forum, just being together and talking carefully about writing instruction can be energizing, engaging, and stimulating.
this may be the first time you've written online. all the better. writing teachers should have experience in how people are writing now and in the spaces writers frequent. this blog is open - so when you write, you're writing for yourself, for your class colleagues, and for people "out there" who might be reading over your shoulder virtually.
we'll use this space to keeo talking outside the three workshops - post a query in between the workshops on how to do something you saw or heard mentioned in the workshop, share a reflection on something that worked well (or not so well), talk with one another about the value in what you're doing.
i'm hoping that as you immerse yourself in each other's thoughts & words, you'll find this an exciting & stimulating aspect of the course. consistently, across course levels, i have found that reading student responses (in a variety of forms - in notebooks, on computer printouts, in listservs, on electronic bulletin boards, in blogs) have been my favorite part of teaching. i learn so much from the collective intelligence of the courses i've been fortunate to be part of. your participation here might take two forms: original posts (that is, posts which begin a new line of discussion) and posts which respond to one another.
feel free to check out other class blogs i've used - and surf around in blogger for other examples. i’d like to keep a blog as a central location for online class writing, so students don’t have to keep track of a bunch of different locations. i'm also not a real fan of Blackboard's discussion groups - i think they're more clunky than blogger and not as nicely designed. but you decide for your class purposes. (you can start your own blog for free by going to blogspot.com, and your individual blog can be linked to this class blog. the directions are pretty straightforward.)
looking forward to talking [in writing] with you!
pam
let’s write!
pam
this may be the first time you've written online. all the better. writing teachers should have experience in how people are writing now and in the spaces writers frequent. this blog is open - so when you write, you're writing for yourself, for your class colleagues, and for people "out there" who might be reading over your shoulder virtually.
we'll use this space to keeo talking outside the three workshops - post a query in between the workshops on how to do something you saw or heard mentioned in the workshop, share a reflection on something that worked well (or not so well), talk with one another about the value in what you're doing.
i'm hoping that as you immerse yourself in each other's thoughts & words, you'll find this an exciting & stimulating aspect of the course. consistently, across course levels, i have found that reading student responses (in a variety of forms - in notebooks, on computer printouts, in listservs, on electronic bulletin boards, in blogs) have been my favorite part of teaching. i learn so much from the collective intelligence of the courses i've been fortunate to be part of. your participation here might take two forms: original posts (that is, posts which begin a new line of discussion) and posts which respond to one another.
feel free to check out other class blogs i've used - and surf around in blogger for other examples. i’d like to keep a blog as a central location for online class writing, so students don’t have to keep track of a bunch of different locations. i'm also not a real fan of Blackboard's discussion groups - i think they're more clunky than blogger and not as nicely designed. but you decide for your class purposes. (you can start your own blog for free by going to blogspot.com, and your individual blog can be linked to this class blog. the directions are pretty straightforward.)
looking forward to talking [in writing] with you!
pam
let’s write!
pam
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