The BBC are reporting that students are using content “lifted” from the web for their online UCAS forms.
Sixth form students are being warned not to cheat on their university application forms by copying material from the internet.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has written to every UK school saying doing so could affect students’ chances of winning a place.
Ucas is to use plagiarism detection technology to scrutinise the half a million forms seeking entry in 2008.
Maybe it’s time to move away from a written statement on a form for applications.
The web may have made it easier, but when I filled in an UCAS form (some time ago now) I know people who were given extra guidance and help filling it in over and beyond what you would expect and that was never considered “cheating”.
Copying and pasting is cheating, there is no doubt, using the web to help fill in the form is fine, but who tells the sixth former filling in the form what is okay and what isn’t?
These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. My own background is in teaching English, so some of the sites are specific to ELT and are grouped separately. The rest are for all teachers and there is also a section for those interested in more difficult multimedia products like Flash and Director.
The cover how to use iTunes, PowerPoint tips, creating blogs and many other things.
He has used Camtasia to produce the video guides. Personally I am a fan of Captivate which does a similar job, for those looking for a free tool, Wink is certainly one option which does work quite well.
