Character Education 

see also: Bullying and CyberBullying -- Digital Citizenship

• Center for the 4th and 5th Rs
  From SUNY Cortland, the Center "serves as a regional, state, and national resource in character education".
• CHARACTER COUNTS!
  "Nationwide nonprofit initiative to support nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education." Includes information a "How To Get Started" section, discussion forum, online resources, suggested reading, materials to order, and more.
• The Character Education Partnership
  Resources for character education programs including free online quarterly newsletter, publications for ordering, and a database of links searchable by either organization or publication definitions.
• Digital Citizenship
  "Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately."
• goodcharacter.com: Character Education
  Free character education resources for teachers and coaches.
• Life Coaching for Kids
  Links to webpages relating to bullying, self-esteem, self-image, coping with parental divorce, stress, anxiety, and friendship issues.
• Rachel's Challenge
  Inspired by the life and writings of Columbine shooting victim Rachel Scott, this program challenges youth to "start a chain reaction of kindness and compassion."
• Teaching Tolerance
  "Teaching Tolerance publishes a semiannual self-titled magazine that profiles educators, schools and programs promoting diversity and equity in replicable ways. In addition, the program produces and distributes free, high-quality anti-bias multimedia kits."

 Plagiarism and Copyright Resources for Educators 

See also: Copyright

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
  "Helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills." With slides, videos, FAQs and more.
• Faculty Plagiarism Resources: Prevention and Detection
  Why students cheat, how to prevent and detect cheating, and a list of sites which provide papers for students. Includes an extensive bibliography.
• Free Plagiarism Checker
  Blog post briefly describing some free online tools for detecting plagiarism.
• Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism
  From the University of Alberta Libraries. Includes a page of Recommended Resources for further investigation.
• Paper Rater
  "PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students." It will check the spelling and grammar of submitted text and run a plagiarism detection search as well.
• Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism
  Essay on plagiarism for (college) teachers
• Plagiarism Checker
  Paste a bit of text in, get links to best possible sources from a Google search.
• PlagiarismDetect.com
  "Instantly check your paper for plagiarism." Requires (free) registration.
• Plagiarized.org
  Online tool to paste in text and check several sites at once for matches.
• Teaching Copyright
  "Provides lessons and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their ideas and concerns, and then guiding your students toward an understanding of the boundaries of copyright law."

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