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This was asked by someone in 2004 and the comments in reply had a number of suggestions:

  http://kairosnews.org/node/3873

Yet you're still going on about it.....

You might find this picture instructive.

I teach writing at a prominent college, and I don't like TurnItIn at all, for many of the reasons described above, but primarily because (1) using it indicates a profound distrust in one's students, and I don't want to send my students that message, and (2) TurnItIn is hypocritical, profiting by using other peoples' intellectual property and then criminalizing students for doing the same thing.

A lot of my colleagues who teach college writing agree that TurnItIn is highly problematic, as well: check out the recent discussions at http://kairosnews.org/students-rebel-against-datab ase-designed, http://cyberdash.com/plagiarism-detection-software -issues-gvsu, http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/monument s/, and http://www.culturecat.net/node/1156.

One way: when you post something to Slashdot, reach the many, many faculty and graduate students who read it by including a URL. Two others:

1. I assume you're talking about higher ed. If so, submit a story about your announcement to Kairosnews and the sites linked from there.
2. Put your stuff in Freshmeat and/or Sourceforge.

I regularly read all of these sites looking for courseware news. I know other folks who do the same.

cbd.

Gee, I hope those are legal versions of Oregon Trail and Carmen Santiago, or else this really lame rapper dude will be very mad!

If you are looking for additional information, you might try visiting kairosnews.org, reading through our blogs and cms's topic category, and posting your questions there. We are a Slashdot-like weblog community interested in rhetoric, technology and pedagogy. Many participants are college English teachers who teach in computer classrooms. Some of us, myself included, have been using weblogs already.

If you are looking for additional information, you might try visiting kairosnews.org, reading through our blogs and cms's topic category, and posting your questions there. We are a Slashdot-like weblog community interested in rhetoric, technology and pedagogy. Many participants are college English teachers who teach in computer classrooms. Some of us, myself included, have been using weblogs already.

I taught first year composition last year, and I actually used slashdot journals to host the discussion portion of my class. You can also take a look at Kairosnews for some more ideas. In particular, check out the blogs and CMSs topic. Good luck!

I taught first year composition last year, and I actually used slashdot journals to host the discussion portion of my class. You can also take a look at Kairosnews for some more ideas. In particular, check out the blogs and CMSs topic. Good luck!

verb. To deconstruct an article on a point by point basis in a highly critical manner. Derived from the name of journalist Robert Fisk, a frequent target of such critical articles in the blogosphere (qv).

Usage: "Orrin Judd did a severe fisking of an idiotic article in the New York Times today..."

Three people asked what "group-Fisking" means in this post, which borrows the term from an InstaPundit post.

The term refers to Robert Fisk, a journalist who wrote some rather foolish anti-war stuff, and who in particular wrote a story in which he (1) recounted how he was beaten by some anti-American Afghan refugees, and (2) thought they were morally right for doing so. Hence many pro-war blogs -- most famously, InstaPundit -- often use the term "Fisking" figuratively to mean a thorough and forceful verbal beating of an anti-war, possibly anti-American, commentator who has richly earned this figurative beating through his words. Good Fisking tends to be (or at least aim to be) quite logical, and often quotes the other article in detail, interspersing criticisms with the original article's text.

If someone can send along a link to the earliest use of the term, I will gladly include it.

when i downloaded and tried netscape 7.0 pr1, i kind of guessed that aol's hand was involved in taking the "allow web pages to open unrequested windows" option out of the gui that's in mozilla (although it's still possible by editing pref.js). but this piece confirms it.