a teaching and learning tool
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A Teaching and Learning Tool. WCI Presentation to Harry Niezen January 2010. WCI Story. WCI Facts and Figures. Cost $2850.00 US (June 2010 - June 2011). Number of teachers using: 32. Number of students using: 1159. Who uses Turnitin?. 10 area DSB’s, including… York - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
A Teaching and Learning Tool
WCI Presentation to Harry NiezenJanuary 2010
WCI Story
WCI Facts and Figures
Cost $2850.00 US (June 2010 - June 2011)
Number of teachers using: 32
Number of students using: 1159
Who uses Turnitin? 10 area DSB’s, including…
• York• Thames Valley
Individual schools in Toronto DSB
also…• University of Waterloo • Wilfrid Laurier University
Benefits“Turnitin is not just for plagiarism…it’s to make
students better writers.”(Greg Arnberg, MS IS, Instructor of Information Systems, Hawaii Pacific University)
"I love how it is used as a teaching tool rather than simply as a way to catch cheating students. My
students understand that the responsibility is on them to avoid problems rather than for me to catch them.”
(a Two Year College Writing Instructor)
Benefits• Manages the entire writing process
• Improved quality of evaluation using GradeQuick feature
• Consistent grading language
• Standardized editing Marks
• Paperless grading
• Online peer reviewing
• Originality checking helps students become proactive rather than reactive
• Immediate teacher response available to students
Benefits• Students learn to distinguish between deliberate and incidental plagiarism
• Assists students in storing and organizing their work.
• Facilitates more effective remedial work by Special Education, Student Success
• Transfers student work from one school to another
• Keeps a writing history for each student
• Does not preclude the need for teaching what plagiarism is and how to avoid it
Compelling Links to:
WRDSB System GoalsWCI School Success Plan
School Effectiveness FrameworkDigital Citizenship
Character Education21st Century Learner
About the Product
Issues to Consider…
What will it cost?Will teachers use it?Will students like it?
What will it cost?
See package included with quote from Turnitin
Will teachers use it?
Over 30 teachers at WCI use it already, after only 9
months of availability.
Will students like it?
See results of our survey
“WCI Student Comments on Turnitin”
Discussion