Category Archives: Pedagogy

Google No Longer Accepting Termpaper Mill Ads

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Lisa Spangenberg

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

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Lisa Spangenberg

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 →

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What does Pedagogy Mean in IT?

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Lisa Spangenberg

Way back in January of 2002 I wrote a rationale for this blog. It’s been linked to and quoted a few times, most recently by Shelly McCauley Jugovich and Bruce Reeves in an Educause Quarterly article entitled “IT and Educational … Continue reading →

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Tools for Teaching

Posted on May 6, 2006 by Lisa Spangenberg

I’ve been attending the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo. On Thursday I attended a panel on “hybrid teaching,” that is, replacing a fair amount of class room instruction with Internet based instruction. It’s not, frankly, a concept that I’m overly fond … Continue reading →

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On Grading and Spreadsheets

Posted on June 26, 2005 by Lisa Spangenberg

I freely confess that numbers and I do not get along as well as, say, letters and I get along. I started using a spreadsheet for grading calculations very early on in my teaching. In a graduate pedagogy class I … Continue reading →

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