May+11,+2009

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

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 * 1) Assign today's collaboration date to equally share the responsibility to record the minutes
 * 2) Reminder: Use the wiki as a resource to discuss important issues
 * 3) 10th grade CAHSEE scores are in. Check essay scores to see if our writing program is working!
 * 4) Academic integrity (again!)
 * 1) Jenn Bethe: A Tutorial on "Turnitin.com"
 * 2) Issues with the research paper: keeping students calm and motivated :)
 * 3) Whole group discussion: Research update, questions and/or concerns.
 * 4) Homework: Finish "Course Goals Survey Questions" so that we can discuss it at our next meeting


 * 1) Be sure to use the wiki as a resource for discussions in order to reduce the amount of topics that we discuss in our 40 minutes together.
 * 2) 10th grade CAHSEE scores are in! Check out Performance Profile, click on each individual 10th grader, click on Assessment.
 * 3) Academic integrity: Steve Montgomery: Many Works Cited pages are being printed out at once. Now students must put their names (typed) on anything they print. Maxine Sagapolutele: Help reduce students' stress levels. At this point, simple sentences and analysis are okay!
 * 4) Turnitin.com: Jenn Bethe: Jenn created a file for us all to use:
 * TurnItIn.com > log in using the password and username from Jenn.
 * Students need a class ID and a class Password.
 * Students register themselves and the teacher gives them the class ID and Password.
 * After you log in, you will find your name listed (a file).
 * Have students upload to your file.
 * Teachers can add a file if they want to keep periods separate.
 * Students need passwords to upload. The passwords are the teacher's last name and the number one: "name1".
 * Click on your file
 * Create a new assignment.
 * File upload: upload a document or cut and paste.
 * After submitting, it takes about 10-15 minutes for the paper to be scanned.
 * Be sure to review the files to make sure that TurnItIn.com isn't confusing weak citations and poor paraphrases as plagiarism.
 * TurnItIn.com is more like back up to support what we already do to identify plagiarism.
 * **Students:**
 * From the home page students need to click on new user.
 * Jenn is going to upload student instructions on the Wiki.

5. Keep students calm and motivated. Treat the research assignment as a Benchmark Assignment--if students are doing well in all other sections of the class, the research paper will not completely ruin a student's grade. Vickie Gross: Students are worried about the difficulty of the assignment. Students are frustrated and are resorting to cheating. Maxine Sagapolutele: Students are cheating because they think they have to produce the same essay at the Advanced level as the Beginning level. They don't.

6. Be sure to finish the "Course Goals Survey" so that we can discuss it at our next meeting.