TECH TIP: TurnItIn
Last year we piloted the use of TurnItIn.com and, after working out a few kinks with the first run through of papers (thanks Lisa Baldwin for your patience!), we are in full swing this year with this program. TurnItIn is a similarity checker, where students upload their assignments for your classes, and those assignments are then matched for similarity against the web as well as against other submissions to TurnItIn. This is helpful if you give the same essay topic, read the same novels, etc., as you can match current student work against the ones that have been uploaded before (this way they can't take their brother's essay off the home computer and turn it in as their own, for example).
It does not take long to set up a class and about 10 minutes for students to log in and join your class. Let me know if you are interested in using this with a class or if you'd like to talk to a teacher who has used it already about their experiences.
BOOK TIP: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Violet and Finch are two young adults who meet under the most unlikely of circumstances: they meet at the top of a clock tower when they are both considering jumping off. Thus begins an unlikely friendship. But will their friendship be enough to save them? It is a story of suicide, friendship, and hope. Fans of The Fault In Our Stars will enjoy this.
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