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Podcasting, WIKIS and Blogs: What are they, where to get them and how to use them.

Instant Bulletin Boards: print off these quotes and hang 'em up. Too, too easy...

Free Stuff for Teachers

Great site with loads of free stuff. Naz went to a conference featuring the creator of this page, and she is terrific!

Plagiarism Checkers

Free Plagiarism Checker: read the directions carefully before you use.

This site shows you how to check plagiarism through Google and library databases:

• http://www.marywood.edu/library/detectplag.htm

Another Google Guide to detecting plagiarism:

• http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

Glatt Plagiarism Services: a self-detection program for students. Students copy and paste the electronic copy of their text into the box and it will email them the percentage that the computer thinks their writing is plagiarized. Don't rely on this, but it may be used as an indicator.

• http://www.plagiarism.com/self.detect.htm

The Plagiarism Resource Site: Free software for download developed by Professor Louis A. Bloomfield to detect similarities between texts turned in by his physics students. Very effective at identifying similar phrases in works being compared. Several versions available for download.

• http://www.plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/home.html

Puzzle Making Websites

• Discovery School Puzzlemaker: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ If you sign up
  for their free "Custom Classroom" you can save puzzles online, too. I just
  used a puzzle I made more than two years ago, and it was right there in
  my online account.
• http://puzzle.com/
• http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/
• http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/
• http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/crossword/
• http://www.createdbyteachers.com/crosswordsmain.html
• http://www.microsoft.com/education/Crossword.mspx
• http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/
• http://world.std.com/~wij/puzzles/making-001.html
• http://www.happychild.org.uk/wks/english/ssm/crosswords01.htm