Overall, I liked this activity. I like making things that I think will appeal to my students while also getting them to think about certain important things (like originality and citing sources). However, I will say that I was having a bit of a difficult time coming up with something for this graphic. I included Iron Man to start with because I was thinking more along the lines of Tony Stark’s all-seeing AI J.A.R.V.I.S.; I wanted to say some kind of catchphrase about how the students should make sure to cite their sources because they would never know who was looking over their work (a sort of “big brother” reference). That didn’t sound very well though, and it turned out to be kind of overbearing and paranoid (also implying that they should only avoid plagiarism when watched, which is not true). So then I went a different route, thinking more along the lines of how original Tony Stark’s idea for the Iron Man suit was, so I went with “Originality is Key”; focusing on the fact that being original is most important and that all original work from other people should be cited (implied with my picture citation at the bottom). Overall, it was an interesting activity.
