Featured: 5-30-2013 The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning [Reference]

The Teacher's Guides To
Technology And Learning 

The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning by Edudemic are intended to offer teachers some of the best and most popular resources currently available.

In creating The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning, Edudemic has explored hundreds of resources in order to make their guides easy to read, use, and share.

The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms

Because the flipped classroom is one of the most sought-after topics in terms of questions on social media, search queries, and more, Edudemic thought it would be useful to organize all of their many resources into one easy-to-use guide. It’s a curated list of many of the most useful flipped classroom resources.

The Teacher’s Guide To Copyright And Fair Use

Teaching students about copyright and fair use involves more than just telling them that they should be doing their own work, and not copying off the web. Plagiarism and copyright violations are significant issues in the classroom.

The Teacher’s Guide To The Library Of Congress

The Library of Congress is an incredible resource for teachers. The largest library in the world, it’s home to millions of books, recordings, photographs, and other materials, many of them original sources. This guide, written for teachers and education in general, promises to be an easy and solid resource to refer back to as needed.

 

The Teacher’s Guide To Choosing The Best Digital Content

Blended learning is becoming a noteworthy trend in education technology as teachers realize technology alone isn’t the 'magic bullet' of education. A blended learning environment means  mixing technology with standard teaching practices in order to enhance education.

Other available guides:

• The Teacher’s Guide To Twitter
• The Teacher’s Guide To Digital Scavenger Hunts
• The Teacher’s Guide To Pinterest In The Classroom
• The Teacher’s Guide To Keeping Students Safe Online
• The Teacher’s Guide To Badges In Education
• The Teacher’s Guide To Google Glass

The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning are always a work in progress. The current guides are always being updated and refreshed, and new guides are being developed.

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Featured: 4-17-2013 GradeMark [Assessment]

GradeMark saves time and improves feedback through an online grading system where standard and customized annotations appear directly on the student's paper.

By making it possible to provide students with richer feedback on their work, GradeMark helps instructors have better interactions with students thereby improving writing levels.

GradeMark offers five types of 'rich' feedback:

1. Reduce plagiarism with an Originality Report.

2. Quickly drag standard or custom marks and comments directly onto the paper using QuickMark Sets.

3. Voice Comments provide personalized audio feedback that conveys your 'tone' and clarifies comments.

4. Communicate clear expectations and speed grading with pre-loaded Common Core-aligned Rubrics, or create your own.

5. Write broader, in-depth General Comments to give students overall feedback about their papers.

• Comprehensive statistics and graphs help you analyze and identify areas of concern, or track improvement.
  

  
  

 Watch a video demo of GradeMark

GradeMark is completely online and available 24/7 through any modern web browser. GradeMark is a product of Turnitin.

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COD - 8/22/2012 - PlagTracker.com [Tools]

PlagTracker.com benefits teachers, students, writers, bloggers, and anyone else interested in protecting their writing.

PlagTracker.com, the product of two Ukrainian computer scientists, guarantees that anything you write can be thoroughly checked by their plagiarism software to ensure that your texts are unique.

The process of checking your work for plagiarism is accomplished in three simple steps:

1. You upload your paper or enter the content in the text box.
2. PlagTracker.com scans it for plagiarism by checking all internet pages and their own database of more than 20 million academic works.
3. You will then receive the plagiarism report containing information about sections of the text that need to be cited and a list of sources.

Students can also benefit from PlagTracker.com by having their essays or research papers checked for any plagiarism that may have been committed in their work. Even if you commit plagiarism unintentionally, it is still viewed as plagiarism.

PlagTracker.com supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Romanian.

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Catch of the Day - EssayRater/PaperRater - 16 Mar 10

Today's trawling netted two similar tools for evaluating writing, EssayRater and PaperRater


EssayRater is an online service created to help students and professionals improve their writing.

EssayRater Home Page

Essays, term and research papers, reports, memos, and other written items are integral to both academic and professional success. EssayRater users can rely on powerful technology to enhance their writing skills and to help them produce high-quality work.

EssayRater was designed mindful of the needs of students in high school and beyond. Regardless of what level of school you are at, you could benefit from EssayRater's advanced capabilities.

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PaperRater is used by schools and universities around the globe to help students improve their writing. PaperRater is a resource developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students.

PaperRater Home Page

PaperRater combines sophisticated technologies such as natural language processing, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching.

Grammar checking allows you to find mistakes and correct them before turning in your paper and find out if your paper contains plagiarized text. PaperRater's proofreading system can make you aware of opportunities to improve your writing.

EssayRater and PaperRater are both free services.

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Catch of the Day - DOC Cop - 14 Sep 09

The catch of this day is DOC Cop

DOC Cop is a plagiarism, cryptomnesia and collusion detection tool that creates reports displaying the correlation and matches between documents or between a document and the web.

Mark McCrohon recognized the need for a tool like this while working at an Australian university and observing collusion among students. He consequently created DOC Cop.

DOC Cop gathers the evidence, and provides the information required for you to judge whether plagiarism, cryptomnesia or collusion has occurred.

Screenshot of a file plagiarism reportFeatures:

• Check .DOC and .PDF
• Multiple report formats
• Detailed reports via email
• Plagiarism & Collusion Detection
• Online support
• Fast turnaround
• Real time status indicator
• Latest plagiarism news
• Variable string lengths

Screenshot of a web plagiarism report

DOC Cop is entirely web-based, no download or installation necessary, and totally free.

Link to the DOC Cop FAQ.

Copyright Bay

Copyright rules are a reality that educators must come to grips with in a time when technology makes it easy to steal intellectual property. Educators in general have a lot to learn to become familiar with not only what copyright law restricts, but also what it allows in terms of that hazy concept, fair use.

A Visit to Copyright Bay attempts to explore fair use in the educational setting and presents it in an informative and entertaining way.

The 2Learn.ca Education Society / NetKnowHow.ca

The 2Learn.ca Education Society presents NetKnowHow.ca This Canadian site helps teachers and students understand and use the internet. The site presents offerings in seven major categories ...

• Teach 2Day
• Search and Research
• What's Web 2.0?
• Plagiarism
• Copyright
• Safety 'Net
• Cyberbullying

Each major topic includes several sub-topics. For example, the sub-topics under Cyberbullying include An Overview, Teacher Resources, Student Resources, and Parent Resources.

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