Timmy doesn't cite his sources

It's contagious.  On Timmy's blog today, he writes:

Welcome Back Teachers                                                 1:37 PM We are happy to have the teachers officially back in the district today. We started today together recognizing the fact that our strength is in our people. We welcomed our new colleagues and recognized those who have been here for 25 years or more. Our administrators and teacher leaders were introduced. We also learned strategies for peak performance including the value of healthy eating and smiling. "Our bodies change our minds, our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes."

By Googling the quote, we come to find:

“Our bodies change our minds, our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.”--Amy Cuddy http://on.ted.com/dgLc

Now we have another person from the school district who doesn't cite sources. This time, it is the superintendent. Nice.

This has to be the funniest thing I read today

After everything I have written about Josephine Posti and citing her sources, a.k.a. plagiarizing, and the discussion about intellectual property, school district copyrights, and their terms of use on this blog, I came across this article in today's Trib.

According to surveys of students and faculty by Rutgers Business School in Newark, N.J., about 33 to 40 percent of high-school and college students admit to having done some kind of cut-and-paste plagiarism.
Academic integrity is important, as is respecting people's intellectual property, says Brentzel-Martina, who teaches her students to value their own ideas and work and to give credit to other people's.

Read more: Internet creates a rise in cut-and-paste plagiarism