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This summer I am teaching AP workshops at the Taft School in Connecticut.  This Blog category will be used for both weeks of the workshops.

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This is probably my last purchase for the ATC. I researched [1 | 2]a bit and settled on the Olympus WS-200. Price is $103.99, much cheaper than I expected. The device is described as small, great for voice recording, and plugs directly into a USB port without a docking station! Sweet. I’m buying 2. [...]

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I checked out this Web site, turnitin.com, the other day.  It is a pay site ($1.00 per student) that does some amazing things for teachers concerned about plagiarism in student papers.  Students hand in their paper through turnitin.com, the Web site marks up the paper for the teacher to review.  Any suspect text (e.g. “The [...]

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I liked this article.  It discusses how teachers are responding to the massive amount of plagiarism by students, uncovered in a 2003 survey by Rutgers University.  It discusses turnitin and the declining use of term papers as assessments.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-termpaper17jun17,0,4376036.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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My primary goal for this course is to become a better teacher at it. I have already enrolled in a Macromedia Dreamweaver course and hope that it will give me some good ideas, and also a good sense of what is being taught in “the real world.” I know that I would like students to [...]

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My goals for this course are to keep it fundamentally the same as the past few years. I do need to work on getting my notes in order, and need to remember that week 5 or 6 accidentally got written over by another week. This causes a great deal of confusion. I will probably make [...]

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My goals this year are similar to those for programming I and II. First, to make the programming courses more self-paced. To that end, I would like to find a system for students to submit their programs to a Web page that uses JUnit to evaluate the completeness of the solution, and gives students instant [...]

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My goals this year are to make the programming courses more self-paces. To that end, I would like to find a system for students to submit their programs to a Web page that uses JUnit to evaluate the completeness of the solution, and gives students instant feedback on their solutions. I will also consider using [...]

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Hello, and Welcome to my edublog. My name is Christian Day and I teach all levels of Computer Science at Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. For more years than I care to think, I have been managing my courses through static Web pages. Thanks to the inspiration of Alan November and [...]

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