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Week 1 Technology and Plagiarism

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 * Introduce yourself to your group members. Include your contact information and any pertinent scheduling considerations (your availability, time zone, etc.).
 * Post two to three sentences summarizing your initial thoughts on your assigned topic. What interests you about it? What challenges do you anticipate?

As the Week 2 Leader, I am going to try and create a page desginated for “ Research Questions” now. Adding to the comments below, I also remember from the Walden welcome information that one of the leading causes of plagiarism was bad planning and time management by the student. When pressured by time and closing deadlines, some folks look for the easy way out and reuse exsisting public content as if it was there own. || We should include not only the frequency of plagiarism, but how to research and use the internet information without fear of accidentally plagiarizing. I know when I first started at Walden, they were very specific about what constitutes copying, but there were still a lot of gray areas that should be clearer. For instance in addition to Turnitin, what other sites might help in a professional situation, not just academic? || I’m Bill La Fave. I live in Phoenix, AZ, which has a strange time zone rule. Basically we are our own time zone, but currently we are on Pacific standard time, which is 3 hours behind EST. I work from 8 AM to 5 PM AZ time so I can be reached anytime after that. In regards to our topic, I think that there is a fine line between plagiarizing information, since the internet makes it so easy to lift copy directly from websites, etc. There are several reasons for this cheating and for plagiarism, to be competitive for grades, because they do not believe that they’re work is up to snuff, that they can get away with it etc. I would think that the reasons for plagiarism would be good to include in our presentation. One site that shows this is http://tlt.its.psu.edu/plagiarism/facguide/causes Mary Ann, good notes and I think that plagirasim.com will be a good resource for us as well. || I wasn’t sure what we could do with our topic of plagiarism and technology so I googled the topic and some good information came up. One web site I looked at was [] it seems to have a lot of good information. It even mentions Turnitin, which is the software WaldenU uses to combat plagiarism. This brought me to thinking that this is a very broad topic and we will need to narrow down our paper to a specific section of this broad topic. Perhaps an opening line such as, “The rapid growth of technology has brought with it tremendous advantages to the world of teaching and training. However, with all advantages, disadvantages follow. A growing disadvantage has been the increase in plagiarism among students. This paper will focus on this topic and bring to light solutions being offer to combat the issue.” Mary Ann ||
 * Michael Freedman || Hi Team !! I live in NJ which falls into the EST zone, the same as Jack, Elizabeth, and MaryAnn. I travel often for work into the CST zone (IN & TN), but think I can make my self available any evening from 7pm EST on. I may be able to meet earlier if needed depending upon my work/travel schedule for the week. It would work best for me if we can develop and agree in advance to a list of dates and times we want to meet as a group over the newxt 5 weeks. My contact email is michael.freedman@waldenu.edu and I am also able to take calls at 732-754-6070. For our group meetings I am able to schedule Microsoft Live Meetings with a call in conference number to collaborate realtime if the team wants to.
 * Jack || Hello All, I also live in a suburb of Atlanta, GA.. so that puts me in EST. I am can meet anytime from 5pm to 9 pm EST time--Monday to Friday. I may be contacted through the walden email: jack.gordie@waldenu.edu . I haven't looked up any additional sources--yet. However, I do agree we should limit the scope of the presentation. ||
 * Elizabeth || Hello! I live in a suburb of Atlanta,GA so I'm in EST. I'm available for team chats anytime between 5:00 - 8:00 Monday through Friday or anytime on the weekends.
 * Bill || Hi Everybody,
 * MaryAnn || Hi all, my name is Mary Ann Lamond and I am pursuing my bachelors in Instructional Design and Technology. I can be reached through my Walden email address, maryann.lamond@waldenu.edu. I can be available from7pm – 11pm eastern standard time Sunday thru Friday.