Goals of this blog

I've been thinking what the goals of this blog should be, and I've decided that they are:

1. Identify the ways students are currently using to cheat. They come up with new ways all the time, and I'd like to keep a running log of what is being seen.

2. Investigate why students feel like they need to cheat. We know about many of those reasons, but, again, they come up with new ones all the time.

3. Understand the feelings involved with dealing with cheaters from the standpoint of faculty and administration.

4. Developing ways to work with students that cheat; some of us have to spend way too much of our time working with those students at the loss of spending time working with other students that need our help as well. I also hope to make these methods as positive as possible for for everyone involved.

5. To share war stories with other teaching professionals.

If it weren't so late tonight, I'd even include a story. Perhaps tomorrow.