Dear Sandra,
Nice to hear from you. Referencing and Plagiarism, as you point out, are tightly linked - like a horse and carriage.
Actually, it so happens that I am currently devising a VLE (eBridge) on the topic of Referencing and Plagiarism. Like you, we are trying to approach the topic from a positive angle and trying not to 'put the fear of God into our students'. Therefore, I was taken by your 'humorous' style. I have added your link to my bookmarks and will come back to it for ideas (and perhaps some links). Your video clips of students chatting about plagiarism highlights how they fall into the the trap quite innocently and with no fraudulent intent.
You do well to highlight the need for good note-taking. Indeed, during the wider discussion at the University of Bradford symposium on Referencing and Writing (8 June), it was generally agreed that good note-taking was the first step to avoid plagiarism.
I like your LearnHigher webpage layout and interactive graphics (especially the cluttered desktop). Again, the use of students' voices will have more impact than a more textual approach.
Keep up the good work and keep in touch.
Thanks for this lovely brief 'essay' on referencing, which I placed in
my 'resources' file! Yes, re-purposing looms (no, not plagiarism!)
Like everybody else in the UK we have had a moral panic over referencing
& plagiarism - and at one point we were tasked to de facto re-direct all
the Learning Development budget to run anti-plagiarism classes for
naughty students. Instead I devised an on-line course - with, I hope, a
little humour for the students - and using Leicester's already extant
resources (with their permission!). See:
http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/Plagiarism/
And I have what I hope are some good notemaking resources here -
prevention being better than cure:
http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/learningareas/notemaking/home.htm
See what you think of the NoteMaker...
Best,
Sandra