Comments on: Online Web apps and responsibility

By: Technobiography » Spreadsheet collaboration via Google

Technobiography » Spreadsheet collaboration via Google — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:38:02 +0000

[...] Read Clair’s take on online collaboration on Pinoy.Tech.Blog [...]

By: clair

clair — Fri, 19 May 2006 07:14:49 +0000

Incidentally, I also read this article about cheating in NY Times just this morning.

By: clair

clair — Fri, 19 May 2006 07:10:49 +0000

h2b2: Yes. There’s not only that issue that teachers should be vigilant about these matters. Also, what I think would be important is that the sense of learning be imparted to students. I think that maybe if students find meaning in school stuff, they would not cheat their way through it. I hope that teachers wouldn’t get too paranoid either, to the point of banning too many things.

banksxs: Whoa. Didn’t know about that til today Thanks for the link.

Anyhow, my point here is that, it is actually beyond copying from content that is publicly available. For all we know some students have email groups sharing homework already. Hahaha. The thing is that teachers are smarter in detecting these activities that involve plagiarism. I am all for learning and community efforts but only if not done for cheating’s sake

By: selaplana

selaplana — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:49:13 +0000

year 2004 when I published answers on questions given to me by some students for their assignments specially on Math. And they all copied my answers.

By: audienceone

audienceone — Wed, 17 May 2006 22:04:06 +0000

hip2b2, any plans of releasing the code you’ve got?

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:11:55 +0000

What about copyscape? http://copyscape.com

By: hip2b2

hip2b2 — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:59:32 +0000

Btw, it only accepts text files for now. It should not be hard to modify it to use other formats. Also, the threshold is tweakable to get better results.

By: banksxs

banksxs — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:58:50 +0000

Back when I was in the States, the teacher encourages, no wait.. requires us to turn in our paper over at http://turnitin.com .

The teacher then retrieves the files on the website. One great thing I know that the website can do is that it can automatically detect plagiarism in the student’s document by searching all throughout the world wide web for similar texts.

By: hip2b2

hip2b2 — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:58:38 +0000

So teachers must be more vigilant for these new threats. Check out this proof of concept Anti-Plagiarism Tool.