Plagiarism

    We had a very interesting week this week.  In an effort to entice the kids to read non-AR books, our MS  has developed a new promotion.  The kids will be allowed to read non-books and write a book review/summary.  They will then be awarded AR points for the book.  Well, within the first week, we had a student plagiarize an entire paper.  She copied the review from Amazon and turned it in. . . with all links blackened out with marker!  She even wrote on the paper, "please excuse my spelling errors," to try to cover herself.  Our MS was flabbergasted!  He is willing to read all of these summaries which adds so much more work to his already full plate and was rewarded with plagiarism within the first week! He shared his findings with the classroom teacher who is in the process of setting up a parent conference...more news to follow:)
  We also worked on my reference order.....which is turning in to so much more work than I had planned for!

Kennedy Elementary School
4 hours

 

Getting Ready

These last two weeks have been nuts.  We  have worked diligently to get ready for Dr. Downs' visit. We reworked the Media Literacy lesson several times.  I also spent several hours practicing my lesson on the Promethean board after school in the Media Center.  I do not have this technology in my classroom so I had to wait until after school to practice when the board was not in use.  We decided it would be better to use a board in a regular ed. classroom for her visit so that interruptions would be minimal.   We had a work day on Nov. 2nd and I spent hours working with Mr. Frame on my Digital Video any tweaking my lesson. All in all I am ready for this semester to be over.  Trying to keep up with my regular ed. teacher workload and my media obligations is a tad bit overwhelming.  I have fallen behind in both areas. 

Kennedy Elementary
October 25-Nov 5
11 hours