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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Hello world /hɛlo wrld/, on the site A...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin GradeMark Used in Penn State Law...

This week, Teaching and Learning with Technology group published an interview with Nicole Chong and Michelle Vollmer of the Dickinson Law School about their use of Turnitin Grademark, particularly the...

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Elizabeth Pyatt commented on the post, OK I'm back with the embedded font...

The site in question is https://sites.psu.edu/wildlinguist/. It looks like Firefox/Mac isn’t working with embedded Google fonts either. Would it be possible to upload font files or approved font files...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Pronunciation Observations from PBS Latino...

I’ve been watching the PBS series Latino Americans and of course paid close attention to the Spanish language. So my main observations were: Code Switched Pronunciation The narrator generally spoke...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Seminar Video Posted, on the site...

Instructors interested in learning more about Turnitin can view the video Introducing Turnitin recorded at a recent ITS Training Seminar.

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Cloud Submit Allows Some Uploads...

The Turnitin service now includes the ability for students and instructors to upload documents from either their Google Drive or Dropbox accounts. Which Documents? Any Google Drive document that a...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Accessibility Workflow in Higher Ed vs...

We’ve been trying out a few products to accessify documents, particularly PDF documents. We have to admit the products work and the vendors are very supportive, but I have been struck at how vendors...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Analyzing Facebook Posts, on the site A...

The MIT Technology Review published an article about a Penn study analyzing Facebook posts to find correlations betweeen words/phrases and your demographic and personality profile. The actual study is...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Coming Soon, on the site Accessibility at...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Unauthorized!, on the site Triads on Corgis...

A triad is a type of text found in Middle Welsh and Old Irish in which knowledge is organized into groups of three in a single category. Below are some sample of triads from the Llyfr Coch Hergest (Red...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Now Accepts PowerPoint, on the...

As of November 19, 2013 students can upload PowerPoint documents into Turnitin course assignments. The files will be converted to PDF but can submitted to the Originality Report and marked up with the...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Descriptive vs Prescriptive Standards, on...

Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammars A useful distinction linguists make in describing grammars is “prescriptive” vs. “descriptive” grammars. Simply put, the difference is the prescriptive grammar is...

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Elizabeth Pyatt commented on the post, Educational Gaming Brown Bag: Smoke...

The event has past which is why the link is not working. A recording of the event is available on http://gaming.psu.edu/archived-presentations/

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Winterfest Training Session on Wed Jan 8 on...

A session on Turnitin will be offered on Wed., Jan 8 from 9-10 AM over Adobe Connect. See registration info from ITS Training.

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Penn State Adds GradeMark and PeerMark to...

Information Technology Services (ITS) announced July 1, 2013 that Penn State has renewed their contract with Turnitin, the web-based plagiarism detection and prevention system. Also, faculty, staff,...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Russian Ruble Symbol Coming to Unicode, on...

A new Russian ruble sign as just been approved by the Central Bank of Russia. The sign is a traditional Cyrillic R (Р) with a crossed line below. You can also see other recent design candidates if...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Accessibility Coder Clinic: Testing Sites...

In this Accessibility Clinic, accessibility tester Michelle McManus will demonstrate how she uses a screen reader to test different Web pages. Attendees are invited to bring page URLs for Michelle to...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Microsoft Office Accessibility...

This demonstration session will focus on the importance of creating documents compliant with 508 standards for accessibility. Participants will be introduced to a variety of ways to create accessible...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, A Unicode Ted Talk, on the site Got Unicode...

Johannes Bergerhausen recently gave a Ted Talk in Vienna on Unicode. It’s a good summary of key issues for those who don’t know know about bits or bytes Looking forward to the day when you can “send...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Over the Holidays, on the site...

The Turnitin service will remain active during the Penn State Holiday break for those with existing accounts, but please note the following. While the IT Service Desk remains closed, new instructor...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Brandi on Bilingualism, on the site A...

Reality TV is probably bad for your overall mental health, but it truly is a wonderful source of material for the instructor in sociolinguistics. For example, in the latest spat between Real Housewives...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, "Ancient U.S. Weapon"? How old can that...

The meaning of words can vary from context, and this article about an “Ancient U.S. Weapon” in Syria brought home this point to me. If you consider that ancient often means “the earliest recorded...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Simplified Rubric and Comments Tied to a...

Turnitin has released two new Grademark features as of January 24, 2014. The first is a simplified Grading Form which lets instructors write comments and a score on different criteria, but does not...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, March 2014 Gaming Brownbag on Unity...

For our final Spring 2014 Gaming Brownbag on March 19, Daryl Branford from the Eberly College of Science will host a conversation about using the Unity gaming engine to develop games for science...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Expands File Uploads to Include...

Turnitin now includes an option to upload image files for grading (such as photography assignments, scanned images of math or science assignments or original artwork). To take advantage of this […]

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Instructions to Download Documents from...

Students and instructors needing to download papers from Turnitin can find instructions at the Download Papers from Turnitin page at.

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Maintenance on Sat., March 15, on...

FYI – Turnitin may be unavailable during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, March 15th from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM PDT (or 10 AM – 2PM EDT). Please see the System Status page <a […]

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Official Penn State Email Address Required...

In May 2014 after the spring 2014 semester ends, the Penn State Turnitin service will migrate to an updated interface which will streamline access to accounts via single sign-on with your Penn State...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Maintenance on Sat., April 5, on...

FYI – Turnitin may be unavailable during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, April 5th from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM PDT (or 10 AM – 2PM EDT). Please see the System Status page <a […]

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Maintenance on Sat., May 3, on the...

FYI – Turnitin may be unavailable during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, May 3rd from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM PDT (or 10 AM – 2PM EDT). Please see the System Status page <a […]

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, In Memoriam: Constance Sutton, Ilaria Corp,...

It’s been a particularly violent TV season this year and no show more deadly than the SyFy Channel bizarre medical thriller Helix, the show where the CDC tries to stop another Zombie epic in a...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Bensonhurst Spelling Bee (Video of the...

One of the joys of YouTube is the wealth of linguistic data a linguist has at her fingertips. A smart linguistic instructor can even ask students to bring data to her, and the following video is a...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Feminist Code Switching Latina (Video of...

A challenge for teaching code switching (switching languages mid stream) is to find some good examples to demonstrate to students. Code switching in terms of Spanish and English (i.e. “Spanglish”) is...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Chinese Pidgin English (Video of the Week),...

This is the second “Video of the Week”, but this makes up for missing last week. This video recreates a 19th century Chinese Pidgin English dialogue from time when Hong Kong was a British colony. At...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Instructor Enrollment Changes for...

Turnitin Access Simplified for Instructors Beginning July 1, 2014, individuals with faculty status or those teaching a course in the Summer 2014 semester will be able to automatically enroll in...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Windows 8 & Setting Keyboards, on the site...

I was recently asked how to activate the U.S. International keyboard in Windows 8. Here are some resources that might help. University of Wisconsin How to Geek International Settings in Windows (w...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Bilingual Celebrities (Video of the Week),...

One of the challenges of dealing with the concept of multilingualism is that people living in monolingual culture such as the U.S. can’t fathom that a person can be fluent in multiple languages. That’s...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Twelve Hour Maintenance Shutdown on Sat...

FYI – Turnitin will be unavailable during a 12-hour upgrade on Saturday, July 26 from noon to midnight EDT (or 9 AM – 9 PM PDT). Please see the System Status page...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Some Instructor Accounts May Need...

On July 1, the Penn State Turnitin service upgraded to a new interface which streamlines the creation of new accounts for students and instructors at Penn State. However, it has come to our attention...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Mon July 14, 3:30-5:30 PM: Freeze on New...

Due to ongoing issues relating to the recent Turnitin upgrade, we will suspend assigning adding instructors to the Penn State Turnitin on Monday, July 14 from 3:30-5:30 PM. This will allow us to...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Instructor Enrollment Update for...

After some initial troubleshooting, the new Turnitin login interface should be available and will simplify initial registration for instructors and students. Please read the information to learn more....

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, InsideOut: Strategies for Teaching Writing...

ISBN and Chapter Info Kirby, Dawn Latta and David Crovitz (2013) Inside Out, Fourth Edition: Strategies for Teaching Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann ISBN-10: 0325041954...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, September 2014 Gaming Brownbag: A FLAG...

The September gaming brown bag will showcase a project from Lehigh Valley in which programmers used the FLAG game engine developed by Teaching and Learning with Technology (http://flagamengine.com/) to...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin/ANGEL pilot open to instructors,...

Penn State instructors are invited to participate in a fall semester pilot of a tool enabling the use of the Turnitin plagiarism detection and prevention system from within an ANGEL course. Information...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Word Crimes & Hip Hop Battles, on the site...

I confess that my personal challenge to post a linguistically interesting video every week has failed, but I thought I would end on a high note. Despite the fact that I am not in the “grammar...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Portfolio Instructions for Sites/Word Press...

As many of you are aware, the Blogs of Penn State platform has been discontinued. If you wish to develop your portfolio or blog in Sites at Penn State (Penn State’s Word Press platform), you can find...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Portfolio Links for Spring and Summer 2014...

Portfolio links for instructors earning a TWT Certificate in Spring and Summer 2014 have been posted on the Completed Portfolio page. Congratualations to all instructors.

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, September 2014 Training Registration Open,...

September Training sessions open for registration in IT Training. Topics include ANGEL, Box.com file sharing, accessibility, Adobe products, iPad, Microsoft Office, multimedia, Yammer, Wikispaces and...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, TWT Orientation Webinar on Oct 27, 4-5 PM,...

The TWT team will offer an orientation webinar over Adobe Connect on Mon, Oct 27 from 4-5PM. Please see the registration link for details.

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Elizabeth Pyatt created the site Middle Welsh Tutorial Test

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