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Teacher Tim's Electronic Classroom

What we will look at: Electronic Planner – HTML doc. ed assignments: MLA Format Marking Plagiarism ‘Tutorism’ The Teacher Tim Website – timdunne.org

Electronic Planner The two files you see here are my Planner for Semester 2 last year. They were never intended to be printed, especially as the document runs to about 1000 pages. Instead it was meant to be a navigable, interactive document that you could surf as needed.

ed Assignments MLA Format Last year all the AHSD pupils had to submit their assignments in MLA Format. This is a standard way of presenting work used in most High Schools and Colleges in the USA.

ed Assignments This year I decided that to help me mark work, record submission dates and go a little way towards saving the planet (we use a lot of paper needlessly to print student's work) all work would have to be ed to me for assessment. My in and out boxes record an accurate time for the submission and the return of marked work. So there are no arguments about submitting work on time anymore, although some pupils have tried this. If it is not in my Inbox, as far as I am concerned, they have not submitted their work

ed Assignments Marking I use a standard way of annotating and correcting work. Now I know this takes a lot of time, especially with G9 & G10, but I think the results justify the time spent. Good G11 & G12 work takes considerable less time to mark, even though they are writing more. ….and in case anyone does want to know, a word assignment takes from minutes to mark and correct.

ed Assignments Marking Here are some examples of the way I use MS Word to annotate and correct work. Before After

Here is an example of an assignment that has been marked and corrected on-line and the ‘cleaned’ to remove all comments and corrections.

This is what the assignment looked like after it had been marked and corrected on-line.

ed Assignments Plagiarism Is a plague….and needs serious surgery to cut it out! For me this is the real advantage of having work e- mailed to me. If I suspect plagiarism I only have to copy and paste a line of text to find the source.

ed Assignments Plagiarism Once pasted in the Google search bar, I am immediately taken to Search Results…..and would-ya-believe it….. the line I copied in is there in all it’s plagiarised glory. Result!!

ed Assignments Plagiarism I check the start and end of paragraphs just to make sure it is all copied….and it was!

ed Assignments Tutorism Where I suspect work has been plagiarised but cannot find evidence for this on-line, I assume a tutor has written the assignment for the pupil…..as opposed to writing it with the pupil! This is a slightly more contentious area as I can’t prove the work is not the pupil’s by presenting them with evidence of the site they have taken it from. However……

ed Assignments Tutorism However…… when questioned about the content of their assignment and a few key words, they always have no idea what they have written or what the words mean.

ed Assignments Tutorism ….or This is under-graduate level work!!! When questioned the pupil had never heard of Hamlet and had no idea what a ‘motif’ was.

However, because pupils were also ing me requests for lesson resources I found my Inbox always full and I seemed to be spending a huge amount of time just sending work out. I then remembered what Mr Graeme told us about the school he had visited in Dubai where a science teacher had a website for her work. So during the October Mid term break I set about creating my own teaching resource website and………… The ‘Teacher Tim’ Website After a few teething problems ing me assignments was working well. (apart from some G9 & G10 pupils….but I probably wouldn’t have got printed assignments from them anyway.)

The ‘Teacher Tim’ Website was born

Uploading a Website Your Computer Host Server World Wide Web File Transfer Protocol ftp HTML editing Software ex. Serif WebPlus Registered Domain Name & Hosting Services [must be paid for]

For Free WebPlus software  Google ‘Fee WebPlus’ or It will let you build a small site, about pages. My site currently has over 40 pages.

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