Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Hypermedia Technology
Reading Chapter 6 again brought to mind the risks involved with the increased use of the internet and all the information out there. And again, I'm not trying to be negative, just cautious. With all the hypermedia authoring tools it is becoming easier to create our own multimedia/hypermedia products. With this comes a responsiblity to adhere to copyright laws, avoid plagiarism, assure accuracy in information presented, and verification of internet links. I was curious as to the increase in plagiarism offenses since the internet became such an integral part of our educational experience so I asked some of the professors around here what they have seen over the last 10 years. Undeniably, there has been a significant increase in students plagiarizing - it is so easy to copy and paste and present it as one's own work. There is software available to check for plagiarism but it is rather expensive. Google is often used to check if work is plagiarized but is very time-consuming. Well, my lunch hour is over - time to go back to work.
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Hey angie, its me again. I always like your post because i can relate to them. :) I think that is crazy about the internet. Sometimes i wish we almost didnt have it so we had to go back to the oldstyle go find a book and rewrite it yourself. I always hear teachers saying that people are plagiarizing. I think it is that students find it so easy to type in a word and thousands of hits come up and then they think well their is no way they can find this. But in fact they can. When writing a research paper I find myself trying to stay away from those websites...most of them are not even legit and most of the time it is hard to site them anyways. Good post :)
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