Another Case of Plagiarism!

Is an apology enough to right the wrong for plagiarizing? Here's another case of plagiarism. Actor, Shia LaBeoulf was recently accused of plagiarizing comic book writer Daniel Clowes to create a short film. No attribution, nothing, nada! An apology on Twitter? What? Thoughts?
http://nydn.us/1cbrI53

Professional Development Day February 18, 2013

Welcome to Google Forms!
"Use your Google Drive account to start creating students assessments in Google Forms. It's easy, it's fast and you will have instant results. Join me on Monday, February 18th to find out how. You can use this post to find helpful documents, videos and tips."

Getting Started 
It might be helpful to think of the process of creating a Google Form in these basic steps:

1. Create the Form. (Form view)
2. Take the quiz in preparation for the self-grading portion.
3. Access the quiz in spreadsheet view. (The title of your quiz will be followed by the word "Responses")
4. Enter correct responses on the grade sheet.
5. Enter the formulas for correct responses.  
6. Enter formula for Final Score.
7. To view results, view the spreadsheet of responses, click on Form from the top menu and choose Summary of responses. (You will see how students did on each question.)

Once the above is completed, your Google Form assessment is ready to be used with students!

Tip: Self-grading in Google Forms works only with answers that can be an exact match, such as multiple choice responses. It won’t work with free-form text or paragraph fields. You can certainly still use a Google Form for a test that includes essay responses, but those will have to be graded manually. (From TechRepublic, www.techrepublic.com)

Helpful Resources

• Ten Great Google Forms Every Teacher Should Be Using 
• 80+ Google Forms for the Classroom
• Tutorials on How Teachers Can Use Google Forms
• Types of Questions in Google Forms

OELMA Conference

Well...it's that time again! Time for us all as a school librarians to attend the only conference in Ohio specifically geared to the school librarian....the OELMA conference 2011! With Jamie McKenzie as our pre-conference and keynote speaker we are sure to learn much about 21st Century Learning! We have great authors, great speakers, great vendors and great sessions. You just won't want to miss it. Both now and while you are at conference join this blog to keep updated. Blog about why you are going to conference, blog about sessions and who you are meeting up with at conference! Maybe you went to a great place for dinner or stopped at the North Market for some delicious Jeni's ice cream! Let's get some chatter going!

Books Lost...Now Found!

As the school year ends, there have been some stories about books that were once lost but now have been found and returned to their rightful owner...the school library! Please add some of these stories to the comments below.

Blog'BoutBooks

Welcome to Blog'BoutBooks! I have created this site so that we school librarians in Ohio (or anywhere else!) can come together to make suggestions about books. The idea for this came about yesterday when one of our fellow school librarians posted to our listserv regarding suggestions for summer reading. SO...start making suggestions here and continue to do so throughout the year. I always learn SO much from my peers!!! :-)