Disengaged learning, poor reading skills, disorganization, inaccurate documentation--the educational causes of plagiarism--will be explored and the solutions that technology provides will be the focus of this workshop. We will look at available programs to collect data, create bibliographies, detect plagiarism. The focus of the workshop will be PaperToolsPro, research management software to write notes as quotations, summaries, or paraphrases, to identify each note with descriptors and keywords, create bibliographies in 6 styles, append a citation to each note, and organize notes using a search query. By the end of the session, participants will understand the thinking process that PaperToolsPro took them through as they created notes, bibliographies, citations, outlines, and the beginnings of a rough draft of a research paper. Educators interested in this software teach in middle school, high school, college, graduate school, or are professional writers--anyone who needs to write a rigorous research paper with ease, but without plagiarism.

Presenter(s): Dorothy Mikuska, ePen&Inc.
Date(s): August 5, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contact E-Mail: mikuska1@mac.com
Level:

• Use an Internet browser to access information online
• Keyboard skills

Platform Information: We will use a Windows lab, but content is cross-platform
Bring Your Own Laptop Available: No
Location:
Glenbard South High School
23 W 200 Butterfield Road
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Additional Information: Participants can bring their own laptops; but they may not have Internet access from Glenbard South's WiFi system, and the software and teaching materials will be online rather than preinstalled on a computer. Each participant will be given a free one-year online subscription to PaperToolsPro, which they can access from any computer's Internet browser with high speed Internet access.