You Shouldn't Be an Instructional Technology Coordinator If You Don't Understand This...

I realize that this post comes from the pages of, I'm tired of writing about this and you are probably tired of it too, but I have to t...

Fair Use, Copyright, and Educational Blogging

Last night someone on Twitter asked me for advice about how to respond to discovering that his blog posts were being re-used without permiss...

When Plagiarism is Funny and What To Do About It

The Rant I'm sure that the person behind the blog TeachersTech.net (hyperlink intentionally left out) will blame the auto-posting softwa...

A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism is an infographic guide created by Kate Hart. The guide was published back in June, but I just learn...

Plag Tracker - Check Your Papers for Possible Plagiarism

Plag Tracker is a service that students can use to check their essays for possible plagiarism. To use the service students simply copy and ...

8 Resources for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism

This morning in a workshop that I facilitated with Greg Kulowiec there was a great discussion about copyright, Creative Commons, and fair us...

What To Do When Your Work Is Plagiarized

As I noted yesterday in my post about how to share the blog posts you like, there have been a handful of edubloggers experiencing plagiarism...

Most Popular Posts of the Year - #18, Plagiarism Checker

Like a lot of other people are, I'm taking this week to relax a bit and do some things that I haven't had time for lately. Therefore...

Week in Review - A Big Thank You

I have to start this week in review by saying thank you to everyone that emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, and commented in support of my effort...

Stop Blaming the Technology

Warning, this is an editorial rant about plagiarism in response to the dealings I've had this week with a person who has been stealing b...

Two from the Archive - So Your Content Got Stolen, Now What?

I see some of my individual blog posts re-used improperly at least once a week. At this point I've kind of come to expect that and don...

Plagiarisma - A Plagiarism Checker

Plagiarism, as teachers we see it a lot. Sometimes it's done intentionally, sometimes it's done accidentally. Either way we can'...

Holiday Edition: 7 Resources for Detecting & Preventing Plagiarism

I'm taking a few days off to relax and enjoy the holidays. Just as I did at this time last year, for the next three days I'll be re...

7 Resources for Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism

1. The first thing I do when I want to check a student's work for plagiarism is to do a quick search on Google . If you notice that a s...

So You Want to Reuse a Blog Post?

I often come across blogs that are reusing the content of other blogs without the author's permission. Unfortunately, I've even seen...