Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin colleges are co-sponsoring a one-day conference on
plagiarism on 15 October 2003 at Colby.
Part of a Mellon grant to develop an instruction program to discourage the
occurrence of plagiarism among undergraduates, the conference, "Information
Ethics and Academic Honesty," provides a forum to discuss the global issues
of plagiarism for higher education. By bringing together faculty,
librarians, technologists, administrators, and students from a range of
schools, this event seeks to provide multiple perspectives on the ethical,
pedagogical, and institutional problems and challenges that attend
plagiarism.
The conference is free, but registration is required. To register or to
view the program, go to:
CBB Weblog
In addition to the conference, this project features (prominently I hope) a drupal weblog that will (again, hopefully) continue the conversation throughout the year, and beyond. There will be another conference in the spring at Bowdoin, and each of the three schools plan to incorporate the fruits of these efforts into their respective curricula.
The fledgling blog is currently locked down, and rather sparse as only a handful of us have permission to post. But I'm lobbying for a more open forum. I'll be talking to Mike Hanrahan, the project lead, today and I'll try to get a multiple-contributors policy ok-ed. It may be just a technical barrier at this point as we are new to drupal, so maybe Kairosnews editors can offer some advice?
We hoping to amass online resources such as style guides (currently we only have an external link to Dartmouth's well-made site) and flash-based learning objects. The latter is up to me, so if any of you Kairosnews readers and editors have ideas about how to represent this issue visually, don't hesitate to chime in with suggestions :)
For a CC license we are going with Attribution Non-commercial, although the link isn't up yet. I lobbied for just Attribution, but others felt we might scare off contributors.
more soon.
-Zach