Put an End to Plagiarism in Your Classroom

I remember reading and hearing about the Piper case. I remember being outrage for the teacher. I don't know if I would have resigned, but I would not have changed the kids grades. I have flunked a student for plagiarizing a project. I talked to them about plagiarizing before the assignment and I remember the student asking me in the middle of the project if it was okay to copy and paste information and I told him no. He ended up copying his entire report down to the graphic that was on the website. The only original things he had on his report was the title (he spelled it wrong), and his name at the end of the report. He did not deny it when I confronted him about it. He didn't even care. He was too lazy to do the work and felt that the assignment was not a priority for him. I liked the fact that the article gave ideas on how to prevent plagiarism, but I fear that in the fast pace, quick answer world we live in, we are going to more and more students who plagiarize and find tricky ways of doing it.