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Category Archives: Pedagogy
On The Use of Sources, Citations, and Links
As educators, we spend a great deal of time trying to teach students how to research, how to use sources, and, perhaps most importantly of all, how to tell a good source from a bad one. I know how to … Continue reading
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On Homeschooling
Tony Woodlief has written a thoughtful, and thought-provoking, opinion piece about why he and his spouse have chosen to homeschool their children. He writes, in part: The reason we’ve broken with tradition, or perhaps reverted to a deeper tradition, is … Continue reading
How do we find excellent online teachers?
I’ve copied the following, with permission, from a post on an online forum. The original poster is a professional educator and adminstrator in a graduate program which relies on online instruction. I think the post asks some good questions. It … Continue reading
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Google No Longer Accepting Termpaper Mill Ads
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Google is no longer accepting AdWords ads from mills: Academic paper-writing services, or “paper mills,” will no longer be able to buy search terms in the Google AdWords program, and thus their ads … Continue reading
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Turnitin Sued
My friend Dawno alerted me to this story about anti-plagiarism service Turnitin.com being sued for copyright violation by four students. Turnitin is a service contracted by universities and schools. Faculty submit student papers for analysis by Turnitin which compares the … Continue reading
