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I’m about to get started on a new tutorial project, and wanted to get a lay of the land.  This one will be a lot different from the Toolkit, since the topic is plagiarism and can’t be covered in 2-3 minutes. And what better way to do that then to ask your Twitter friends what tools they think are great? So, after a little bit of poking around, and taking a few brief notes, here are some that good folks think are good. None were quite what I’m thinking of, which is a good sign (there’s nothing worse than reinventing the wheel), but all had several good aspects worth considering. Do you know of any awesome ones that I didn’t check out?

You Quote It, You Note It!
from Vaughan Memorial Library at Acadia University

• Two panes: one with text, one with moving graphic
• Conversational
• Explained Learning Outcomes and time
• Allows you to chose a player
• Looks like same content for each

The Plagiarism Court: You Be The Judge
from DiMenna-Nyselius Library at Fairfield University

• Box of text, with menu on the left
• Mostly text, though voice reads headings and there is a moving image on the main screen
• Ends with a quiz

Plagiarism: What Every Student Needs to Know
from Cannell Library at Clark College

• Four part tutorial; can be taken in parts
• Last part is a quiz
• Lists outcomes, shows how far you are in process
• Includes some interactive questions along the way
• Mostly text, some images

The Plagiarism Tutorial
from the University Libraries at The University of Southern Mississippi

• HTML based
• Start with a pre-test, ends with a post-test; emails results, but doesn’t tell you on the website which ones you got right and wrong
• Mostly text based
• Includes other quizzes along the way

Plagiarism Tutorial
from the University of Texas Libraries at The University of Texas at Austin

• Tabbed tutorial including: defining (interactive and multimedia), avoiding (interactive and multimedia), links, explanation of tutorial, and a tab to help instructors know how to incorporate it into their class
• Questions along the way provide immediate feedback for right and wrong answers

A Guide for Rutgers Students
from the libraries at Rutgers University

• Mostly text
• Last link is a video and quiz
• Video a bit slow to load, but is very visual and quickly moving; it reminds me a bit of some of the types of the mashup style videos you might find elsewhere on the web
• Video, though very interesting to watch, is not interactive

Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University
from the Scholarly Communication Center/ Rutgers University Libraries

• Presents a video and text version
• Video, itself, explains the layout of the screen
• User controls when the video advances to next screen
• Narrative story supports the plagiarism content
• Prompted along the way to answer questions to help the characters with

Plagiarism Tutorial
from Jackson Library at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• Vido based, with length of video clearly notated
• Presents acted out scenarios with spots along the way to answer questions about if the behavior is plagiarism or not
• Vignettes are acted out by students

Information Ethics Tutorial
from the libraries at the  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• HTML and text based
• Questions along the way
• Links out to other relevant resources along the way
• Multiple ways to navigate through the content

Doing Research: Avoiding Plagiarism
from the libraries at Texas Woman’s University

• Incorporates video, quiz questions, and text
• Offers a way to navigate through the tutorial to sections you might want to focus on or review
• Some of the videos include professors explaining strategies to avoid plagiarism and how to write papers

Plagiarism Resource Site
“A collaborative project originally funded by the Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College, and developed by Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges.”

• Brought to my attention via Plagiarism Prevention Without Fear from some colleagues at work
• Mostly text based
• Multiple ways of navigating through the content

Miami Integrity Quickstart
from the libraries at Miami University

• Made using Prezi
• Mostly text and images, though feels more interactive due to presentation format
• Have a good sense of how far into the tutorial you are based on layout

Thanks for helping generate a list of tutorials, Twitter friends! Amy Thornley, Jason Griffey, Beth Filar Williams, Emily King, Anna Van Scoyoc, Erin Lawrimore, and HPER Library all had great suggestions. Susan Sharpless Smith sent a few as well, and PRIMO (of course) had a number of good ones.

Related posts:

1. why plagiarism is dangerous
2. tutorials on youtube
3. wikis in information literacy training
4. incorporating multimedia into online courses
5. A Monday In My Library Life