Spending money on detection does not solve the problem; developing good teaching practices will. Here are some sites with great ideas; many are very straightforward and easy to implement.
The key element for all of us is to compare and share. Please send your comments, thoughts, lesson suggestions, resources, articles and links to me so that we can publish all of our work.

•• Teach your kids about plagiarism - http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
and http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html
•• Teach your kids the meaning of plagiarism and show them what you know - http://www.kalama.com/~zimba/plag&cheat.htm
•• Look at this great list for great help in the high school
http://www.csd99.k12.il.us/north/library/plagiarism.htm
http://www.cc.umanitoba.ca/student/resource/student_advocacy/cheating_plagiarism_fraud.shtml list for students on what to do and not do
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/researchroom/default.asp?s=&n=&i=&v=&o=&ns=0&uid=0&rau=0
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/plagiarismtutorial/default.asp?s=&n=&i=&v=&o=&ns=0&uid=0&rau=0
the sites above are tutorials on plagiarism from Bedford/St.Martin

Create webliographies!!! Use this for help.

Great list of Dos and Don'ts which lends itself to many definitions and a good beginning for a discussion with students. Make sure to scroll down through it.
Teacher's Workshop - online, how to stop plagiarism

WebQuests on Plagiarism
http://mail.nvnet.org/~cooper_j/plagiarism/ Plagiarism Workshop. Thanks to Janice Cooper for the great links.
David Gardner - Plagiarism and How to Avoid It
Grey Day, October 1st - lessons - http://712educators.about.com/cs/plagiarism/a/plagiarism.htm

Apple Learning Interchange - Apple's good advice on writing K-12, how to avoid plagiarism - http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/ellesson/elem-writplagerism.shtml
Tools for students- http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/index.htm checklist handout for students

The New Plagiarism:Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age, From Now On The Educational Technology Journal Vol 7|No 8|May|1998
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There are several links and resources for additional thoughts and suggestions; concrete examples and sample lessons can be found through the various links.

Jamie McKenzie adddresses the issues of plagiarism be describing what access to digital information has allowed and encouraged us to do as well as giving us a prescription for what can be done to remedy the situation. If you only have time for one article or one author, start with McKenzie.

"As long as schools are primarily about teaching rather than learning, there is little need for expanded information capabilities. Considering the reality that schools and publishers have spent decades compressing and compacting human knowledge into efficient packages and delivery systems like textbooks and lectures, they may not be prepared for this New Information Landscape which calls for independent thinking, exploration, invention and intuitive navigation." http://www.fno.org/oct97/question.html

http://bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/hccworkshop/plagiarism.htm
This site contains an interesting quote from Doris Kearns Goodwin and contrasts that with one from the founder of TurnItIn.com. More importantly it has links and ideas on how to teach more effectively and how to reduce the possibility of plagiarism.

http://www.library.dal.ca/how/plagiar.htm
This site from Dalhousie University (Canada) includes referenced materials on the following topics:Educating the student on what you know to be plagiarism, student guides on how to avoid plagiarism, assignment design strategies, assignment examples to reduce opportunity for plagiarism.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_plagiarism
The Joint Information Systems Committee has completed a four strand project on the electronic detection of plagiarism. One of their conclusions from the full report by Oxford Brookes University states that "... it is unlikely that the problem of students using others’ work and submitting it as their own will diminish. It could even be that introducing electronic detection tools on their own creates more problems than it solves."

Process Examples: Click Here
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/flightovertheequator/ use for lesson plan
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/wethepeople/
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/rediscoveringamerica-buffalosoldiers/
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/jfk-aportrait/

http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/ - tutorials for teachers, quizzes
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html handout for student use, .pdf
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Distance_Education_and_the_TEACH_Act&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=25939 TEACH Act 11/2/2002
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/copywes.html Copyright 101 for Educators
http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13100799 Kindergarten Copyright
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/InDefenseOfCheating.html Scroll to the bottom for advice on need for restructuring
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A3724.cfm lesson plan on how to avoid and practice
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp322-05.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson322.shtml
http://www.academicintegrity.org/cai_research.asp research McCabe
Research Process
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/choosing.htm Music Plagiarism
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/207775_tf214.html
http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/ must accept terms of use to access
http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html
good overall source
http://www.noodletools.com/
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/ethical/ note taking ppt research how to
http://www.how-to-study.com/Index%20Cards%20Research%20Papers.htm

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