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I'd love to hear some opinions/thoughts about online/virtual/cyber high schools. Do most teachers believe that these avenues can be effective educational environments, and if so, how?
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Milisa Sammaciccia Ismail, MEd. replied to Grace's discussion Preventing Plagiarism and Encouraging Original Thinking in the group Online Educators
Thad Reviello replied to Grace's discussion Online schooling..."I am not sure that I by into online education at the high school level. My first concern is way to easy for students to cheat or rather not be doing their own work. A lot of kids today look for the easy way out, it is harder for them to…"
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Grace replied to Jill Calkins's discussion Help with converting video file so that it plays at high speed!"Depending on the software or application you're using, you could do a few things. Try to go to File> Export, and then try to save it as a smaller file. You can try to right click on the video and compress it. You could also try changing the…"
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Grace replied to Eric Yatarola's discussion The first year of teaching"For me the two toughest things were: learning that I couldn't demand respect (I had to earn it), and learning how to effectively organize all of the paperwork, contacts, meetings, to do lists, grades, etc. The easiest part was the end of…"
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I'd love to hear some opinions/thoughts about online/virtual/cyber high schools. Do most teachers believe that these avenues can be effective educational environments, and if so, how?
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Preventing Plagiarism and Encouraging Original Thinking
Has anyone else seen an increase in plagiarism among students in recent years? I've found that many students have difficulty creating original ideas. I also find that many of them search through Internet sources, and often use other peoples’ ideas as the only means of constructing their own. It seems as though many students believe that someone else has already done the thinking, and all they really have to do is summarize the information and reword it enough, so they don’t get a paper handed…See More
Grace replied to Mary Dobrovolny's discussion online math teachers in the group Online Educators"Hi Mary,
I'm currently writing an Algebra II text for a digital textbook company, and I've found several links to various online interactive math games, online/interactive practice sites,…"
Grace replied to Asha Parvathy's discussion Supporter of Online tutoring in the group Online Educators"Thanks for sharing this Asha. I currently work at an online cyber high school in Michigan. I'm interested in learning more about other online learning environments as well!"
Grace replied to Steve Hargadon's discussion Introductions"Hello!
I taught in a traditional high school English classroom for about four years, and now I currently work as an English Expert for the first cyber high school here in Michigan. When I taught in the traditional classroom all my students had been…"
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