If only things could get pushed a bit further...

Tynt Tracer is a new service that does a number of things beneficial to content providers online:

1. Protects content from being plagiarized--though with just a little bit of knowledge, the plagiarizer can minimize that;
2. Drives traffic back to the original source of the information;
3. Gives credit to the originator of the content (the copyright holder?);
4. and can also improve your search engine ranking--What with all those extra links floating around back to your site and all.

It's kind of an interesting idea, and outside the "fair use" arguments that will abound, I thought, what a great tool for teaching about plagiarism. How?

Step 1: Create a website that provides ALL content that is to be used in the development of a short research project.

Step 2: Use Tynt Tracer to mark all the content that is copied and pasted from one site to another.

Step 3: Use the resulting projects to talk about plagiarism, and how copying and pasting is not the way things are done.

Could be interesting to give it a try.