Helpful Information for
Grant Writers
A Service of iParadigms LLC
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin is the only complete, web-based solution for managing writing assignments that prevents
plagiarism, delivers multiple phases of feedback and revisions, and engages students in the process. Its
three interrelated components—OriginalityCheck, GradeMark and PeerMark—greatly accelerate the
delivery of rich feedback on student work, engage students in their own learning and development, free
instructors from the burden of tracking paper copies of assignments, and promote critical thinking while
maintaining academic integrity.
If you are seeking funding for the purchase of Turnitin to supplement your academic program, this
document can help. It provides key information on Turnitin – in a plug-in format – for use in your grant
application. Note that some funding applications may not require all the information provided in this
document, and other applications may require additional information not provided here. It’s very important
for you to follow the funder’s specific application directions.
This assistance document is divided into six sections. Each section has information that may be used in
applications where relevant. The six sections are:
Section 1.0: Product Overview
Section 2.0: Product Configuration / Pricing / Contact Information
Section 3.0: Technical Specifications
Section 4.0: Product Research and Effectiveness / Testimonies
Section 5.0: Turnitin Corporate Information
Section 6.0: Educator’s Preparations
Section 1.0 Product Overview
1.1 Description of Product
Used by more than half a million high school, college and university instructors, Turnitin is a complete, webbased solution that simplifies and improves the process of creating, managing and commenting on written
assignments. Turnitin reinforces proven best practices in process-based writing while increasing instructor
effectiveness and productivity. Turnitin components include OriginalityCheck™ Plagiarism Prevention,
PeerMark® Peer Reviewing tools and GradeMark® Paperless Grading and Mark-up tools, described in
more detail below.
OriginalityCheck™ Plagiarism Prevention
Turnitin OriginalityCheck is the world’s leading solution for finding unoriginal content and diagnosing
potential plagiarism. It allows educators to check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism
by comparing the work against continuously updated databases of existing sources. Instructors or students
submit their papers to Turnitin via a web-based account. Turnitin then generates an Originality Report for
each paper submitted, analyzing students’ compliance with their instructor’s instructions and/or school
policies regarding plagiarism, proper citation and use of copyrighted materials.
Turnitin dramatically speeds up the process of assessing documents for originality and addressing any
issues with students. Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their
students about proper citation methods and safeguard students’ academic integrity.
In analyzing student work for unoriginal content, Turnitin draws on the industry’s most comprehensive
database of original source materials, including billions of pages of web content, more than 150 million
previously submitted student papers, tens of millions of articles from over 80,000 subscription-based
journals, and thousands of textbooks.
PeerMark® Peer Reviewing
Turnitin’s patented PeerMark tool enables instructors to quickly create and manage peer review
assignments in which students read and comment on each other’s work. Peer review is a popular teaching
practice, with a strong body of evidence showing that it can improve student writing, editing and critical
thinking. Although peer reviewing is a powerful educational method, it can be logistically difficult —
especially in larger classes. PeerMark eliminates the challenges and complexities of distributing and
managing paper-based assignments. Using a simple web-based interface, instructors can set up and
manage assignments, provide structured guidance and monitor the results with minimal effort. Students can
easily upload, review and comment on each other’s papers, prompted by instructor-supplied questions and
guidelines.
Features include automatic paper distribution, optional anonymous reviews, a palette of reviewing marks
and tools, and assessment metrics.
GradeMark® Paperless Mark-up and Grading
Completely web-based, this online digital markup tool provides instructors an efficient and 100% paperless
way to mark and grade student work. Instructors have the option of turning on the ETS® e-rater® writing
analysis tool to automatically check for spelling, grammar, usage, mechanics and style. E-rater technology
is designed to save instructors from the repetitive, time-consuming marking of surface-level errors and is
particularly helpful for non-English department instructors. In addition to the e-rater comments, instructors
can insert, edit and reuse GradeMark comments of any length. In addition to creating comments on the fly,
instructors can use a library of preconfigured editing marks or create their own. Used as a detailed
assessment tool, GradeMark tracks and graphically illustrates specific errors within an assignment for an
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entire class of students. Instructors can use the tracking features to illustrate student progress for
accountability purposes to the school, district, or federal program administrators.
Features and capabilities include real-time grading and mark-up, standard editing marks, grade tracking
with GradeBook, fully customizable rubrics, and sharing of rubrics and editing marks.
Additional product information is available on the Turnitin website at:
http://turnitin.com/static/products/index.php
1.2 Collateral Materials
Turnitin offers easily accessible, online collateral materials at no charge. In an effort to maximize instructors'
use of the tools, Turnitin also provides online training videos, user manuals, and Quickstart guides.
Online Training Videos – titles consisting of:
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Log-in and basic set-up for classes and assignments
Turnitin Originality Reporting
GradeMark and GradeBook
PeerMark
Course Management Tools
All student, instructor, and administrator training videos are available at:
http://turnitin.com/static/community/index.php
Quick Start Guides – PDF documents consisting of:
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Student Quick Start
Instructor Quick Start
Administrator Quick Start
User Manuals – PDFs consisting of:
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Student User Manual
Instructor User Manual
Administrator User Manual.
User manuals are also available for institutions that access Turnitin through their existing course
management system such as:
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Blackboard® Academic Suite/Learn CMS/LMS/VLE
Blackboard CE/Vista 3, Vista 4, Vista 8, CE6, and CE8
ANGEL®
Moodle®
Desire2Learn
The complete selection of videos, manuals and Quickstart guides is available at:
http://turnitin.com/static/community/index.php
1.3 Professional Development/Training
Turnitin specialists are available to deliver customized training sessions or workshops on our Turnitin
services for your school, district, college, university, or consortium. These sessions can be tailored to focus
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on getting your staff up and running, or to address issues of curriculum integration such as those covered in
our Turnitin Academy sessions.
These live sessions can be designed to be delivered on-site or via live remote (using WebEx or Elluminate).
Please contact your account manager to request an estimate, or email us at sales@turnitin.com.
The Turnitin Academy
The Turnitin Academy is a new series of highly interactive professional development webinars for
instructors, geared toward taking your writing-intensive classes beyond plagiarism prevention and toward a
writing pedagogy. Taught by a college professor, each webinar explores practical elements of using all the
components of Turnitin in the instructional process. There’s no cost to participate in these valuable
professional development webinars for both high school and college instructors. The sessions are
appropriate for both new and experienced Turnitin users.
Learn more and sign up here: http://community.turnitin.com/?page=academy
Application Note: To add onsite training in your grant application, you can request an onsite training
quote by emailing sales@turnitin.com and specifying your interest in an onsite training session.
1.4 Correlations to Standards
Turnitin services are designed to help educators meet state and national educational standards and
promote student achievement and learning outcomes. Turnitin correlates to key standards as specified by
state and national standards organizations and policymakers:
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National English and Language Arts standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA)
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Benchmark grade-level English and Language Arts standards for California, Florida and Texas.
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21st Century Skills Standards developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the American
Association of School Librarians.
The Turnitin website (http://turnitin.com/static/products/correlations.php) contains summary and
comprehensive documents that explain specific state and national standards and describe how various
Turnitin components correlate with them. Charts that specify and explain the alignment to 21st Century Skills
standards, and the specific proficiencies that can be developed using Turnitin, are included in the white
paper entitled “Turnitin: A Web-Based Technology for Collaborative Writing and Learning,” also available on
the Turnitin website at http://turnitin.com/static/products/white_papers.php.
1.5 Turnitin Quick Facts
As of June, 2011, Turnitin:
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is used by more than half a million educators at over 9,500 high schools and colleges in
more than 110 countries.
processes over 200,000 papers per day, at a rate of thousands of papers per second.
has processed more than 150 million student papers total.
looks for text matches against billions of pages of web content, more than 150 million
student papers, 80,000 subscription-based journals and publications, and thousands of
textbooks.
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Section 2.0 Product Configuration / Pricing / Contact Information
2.1 Product Configuration
Turnitin consists of three web-based services: 1) OriginalityCheck Plagiarism Prevention, 2) PeerMark Peer
Reviewing and 3) GradeMark Paperless Grading. Turnitin is used by over 9,500 institutions in more than
110 countries worldwide. Turnitin services are available in English plus 9 other languages (Spanish,
German, French, Japanese, Chinese [Traditional and Simplified], Korean, Thai and Malay).
2.2 Product Pricing/Bid Procedures
Turnitin provides flexible product pricing ranging from a multiple campus license to individual licenses.
Single Campus License
The single-campus license gives unlimited access to all instructors on a single campus. The license can be
purchased by universities/colleges and high schools.
Multi-Campus License
The multi-campus license gives unlimited access to all instructors on several campuses. This license can
be purchased for school districts as well.
Departmental License
The Department License allows use of Turnitin by one academic unit within a school. This license can only
be purchased by college and university departments.
Individual License
The Individual license allows a single instructor from an academic institution to generate 150 reports for up
to 150 students.
Application Note: To complete the pricing section of your funding application, you will need to
complete the Quote Request form on the Turnitin website
(http://pages.turnitin.com/QuotePage.html), email sales@turnitin.com, or phone 510-764-7600
(Higher Education: x240 and Secondary Education: x239). Then you’ll need to plug the quote into
your funding application. This is generally Included as part of the budget information in grant
applications.
2.3 Product and Technical Support/Contact Information
In addition to live web sessions for walk-through orientation and training, Turnitin has product specialists
who are available to answer emails, phone calls, reply to questions, and walk through any challenges
encountered.
Obtain product and technical support by sending an email to tiisupport@turnitin.com, or by calling Turnitin’s
toll-free number 866-816-5046, extension 241.
Application Note: By now, you probably have been assigned an account manager at Turnitin who is
assisting you with product and sales information. Use your representative’s contact information
when completing this section. If you do not have a representative yet, contact the company.
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3.1 Technical Specifications
Turnitin is a web-based product enabling easy access for instructors, students, and administrators. The
system requirements are as follows.
For Windows machines
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1.5GHz or faster processor
Microsoft® Windows®7, Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista® with Service Pack
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Firefox 3+, Internet Explorer 7+ & 8.x, Chrome 4+ or Safari 4+
Internet browser set to allow all cookies from Turnitin.com
Some features such as GradeMark require JavaScript to be enabled
1GB (XP) or 2GB (Vista) of RAM or more recommended
1,024x768 display or higher recommended
Broadband Internet connection is recommended
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Mac OS X v10.4.11+
Firefox 3+, Chrome 4+ or Safari 4+
Internet browser set to allow all cookies from Turnitin.com
Some features such as GradeMark require JavaScript to be enabled
1GB of RAM or more recommended
1,024x768 display or higher recommended
Broadband Internet connection is recommended
Additional information:
If your browser has a section for trusted sites, please enter these two URLs:
http://www.turnitin.com
https://www.turnitin.com
If you are behind a firewall or have a spam filter configured, make sure you add the following to your
whitelist:
turnitin.com
lists.turnitin.com
hd.turnitin.com
3.3 Integration with Other CMS Platforms
Turnitin integrates with all major popular course management systems, learning management systems and
virtual learning environments (CMS/LMS/VLE), including Blackboard®, Blackboard CE/Vista®, Moodle™, and
Desire2Learn®, or with your custom CMS or portal using our API (Application Programming Interface).
These integrations make Turnitin function like a natural extension of the web application your institution
already has in place. Instructors get the simplicity of a single sign-on from inside a CMS/LMS/VLE to:
* Submit assignments for originality checking and to see the resulting originality reports;
* Access GradeMark markup and grading tools, and rubrics;
* Access PeerMark peer reviewing and feedback tools; and
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* Access a single, familiar gradebook environment for storing and managing grades on
assignments.
Hundreds of Turnitin customers worldwide are using our services with their choice of CMS/LMS/VLE,
including:
Blackboard Academic Suite/Blackboard Learn
Turnitin developed this integration/plug-in using the publicly available Blackboard APIs and in conjunction
with Blackboard’s Building Blocks developer partner program. This plug-in, supported through our Open
Options for Integrations program, allows access to all Turnitin services (including GradeMark and
PeerMark) without having to leave the Blackboard environment or log into Turnitin directly.
Blackboard CE/Vista - formally known as WebCT
Turnitin developed this integration/plug-in as part of WebCT’s Powerlink program. Since WebCT became
part of Blackboard, our plug-in works with Blackboard Vista/CE products. This plug-in, supported through
our Open Options for Integrations program, allows access to all Turnitin services (including GradeMark and
PeerMark) without having to leave the WebCT environment or log into Turnitin directly.
Moodle
Turnitin has developed integration/plug-ins for Moodle and support them through our Open Options for
Integrations program. Our plug-ins allow access to Turnitin services inside a browser frame without having
to leave the Moodle environment or log into Turnitin directly. In addition, MoodleRooms is a Turnitin partner
and provides education institutions with comprehensive integration and support services using our
integration/plug-in.
ANGEL
Turnitin has developed an integration/plug-in with cooperation from ANGEL using their publicly available
APIs. This plug-in, supported through our Open Options for Integrations program, allows access to all
Turnitin services (including GradeMark and PeerMark) without having to leave the ANGEL application or log
into Turnitin directly.
Desire2Learn
Desire2Learn developed an integration in cooperation with Turnitin through the use of our public API. This
integration lets users access Turnitin Originality Checking and GradeMark services as options for the builtin Desire2Learn assignment. Support for this integration is handled primarily by Desire2Learn’s support
services. Desire2Learn documentation and discussion forums are hosted on the Desire2Learn Community.
Pearson LearningStudio (formerly known as eCollege)
Pearson LearningStudio developed an integration in cooperation with Turnitin through the use of our public
API. Support for this integration is handled primarily by Pearson. By simply clicking a Turnitin link, users
logged into Pearson LearningStudio can access the Turnitin application without having to re-authenticate
via a secure, single sign-on process. The single sign-on will also automatically manage course and user
account creation between LearningStudio and Turnitin so administrators need not worry about keeping the
systems synchronous.
Sakai
For up-to-date information about Sakai integrations, please call your Turnitin representative.
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4.1 Research
In recent years, studies by independent researchers and by the company have found that Turnitin can
significantly reduce student plagiarism, improve written work, and enhance instructor productivity in high
school and college environments. The company has collected multiple years of data and analyzed the
effectiveness if its tools in real-world settings. Among the results:
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A statistical analysis of 7 years of data from high school and college submissions to Turnitin found
that after two years of Turnitin use, serious instances of unoriginal content and plagiarism in student
writing decreased by 20 percent or more. After four years, institutions experience improvements of
35 - 70 percent.
Independent research studies show that Turnitin is substantially more effective than manual
plagiarism detection methods.
A recent survey of educators showed that Turnitin not only reduced plagiarism, but also helped
improve writing skills, reduced instructor workloads and increased productivity.
For more findings on the impact and effectiveness of Turnitin, please visit the Turnitin website, where
Turnitin has assembled a repository of articles, white papers, user testimonials and standards information:
White Papers: http://turnitin.com/static/products/white_papers.php
Articles, Testimonials, and Case Studies: http://turnitin.com/static/customers/index.php
4.2 Scenarios/Reference Testimonies
Instructors and institutions have provided multiple testimonials to the effectiveness of Turnitin. A few
examples:
OriginalityCheck: "I have used Turnitin.com's scan for plagiarized material for several
years now, and it has completely changed the intellectual authenticity, honesty, and
precision in my students' research writing. They can't wait to see the side-by-side analysis
of their papers and the articles they have quoted, all color-coded and numbered for
matches. Instructors who do not have access to this program often come to me, asking me
to run a scan on a paper they believe to be plagiarized. A school-wide subscription to
Turnitin.com would raise the level of our students' work several levels." - Dr. Dorothy
Bushnell, Merced College.
PeerMark: "Turnitin.com allows me to deliver the considerable cognitive benefits of the
peer review experience to my introductory class of 1000 students. Only this brilliant tool
allows me to do so without being swamped by administrative overhead."
- Prof. John Mitterer, Brock University (Recipient of the 2003 Brock Distinguished
Teaching Award).
GradeMark: "I have been using Turnitin.com for some time now, but with GradeMark’s
recent improvements correcting and giving feedback is a snap. I especially like
GradeMark’s clipboard and rubric generator. It is easy to reduce your grading time by up to
30% compared to pen and paper. The clipboard and rubric generator alone can improve
grading efficiency dramatically. I am also impressed with the emoticons available for
feedback. My students really seemed to enjoy the positive reinforcement that the
checkmark and smiley-face emoticons provide. Finally, having a summary panel that lists
the time spent grading and the number of total marks is an effective way for teachers to
stay on track. GradeMark almost makes me look forward to marking!" - James Papple,
Brock University.
A report for Virginia’s Broad Run High School expounded…
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“Not only is plagiarism down, but academic standards are higher than ever. Broad Run
receives regular report cards from Virginia universities on the quality of the students they’re
graduating, and their marks have gone up dramatically. I had an admissions officer tell me
that if he has a kid from Broad Run and a kid from another school, and their test scores and
GPAs are the same, he’ll admit our kid first because he knows our kids come prepared.” Dan Kent, Social Studies teacher and department chair at Broad Run.
On the other side of the country, a 26-year veteran English, Social Studies, and Humanities
teacher affirms…
“It became clear that using a service like Turnitin was not about playing gotcha. It was
about upholding academic honesty, rewarding those who do their own work, and
encouraging young writers to find their own voices.” – Bruce Becker, Lake Washington
School District, Redmond, Washington.
Section 5.0 Turnitin Corporate Information
5.1 Corporate Information
iParadigms, the company that created Turnitin, got its start in 1996, when a group of researchers at UC
Berkeley created a series of computer programs to monitor the recycling of research papers in their large
undergraduate classes. Encouraged by a high level of interest from their peers, the researchers teamed
with a group of instructors, mathematicians, and computer scientists to form Plagiarism.org, the world's first
internet-based plagiarism detection service.
By late 1998, Plagiarism.org had become the center of international media attention. The small organization
was featured in several major media venues, including Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and
the New York Times. Since then, Plagiarism.org has continued to grow and evolve and is now recognized
around the world as Turnitin.
With the addition of GradeMark and PeerMark to the Originality Check service, Turnitin reaches beyond just
plagiarism prevention to address the entire writing cycle for student papers and increase student
engagement and learning through the writing process.
5.2 Corporate Contact Information:
Application Note: Use your personal representative’s contact information when completing this
section. If you do not have a personal representative, contact the company to obtain a highly
trained representative.
5.3 Biographies of Key Personnel:
Chris Caren, President and CEO
Chris Caren joined iParadigms in 2009 as President and Chief Executive Officer. Although
his career has focused on software businesses, he comes from a family of scientists and
educators -- a background which helped draw him to iParadigms. Caren previously worked
for Microsoft Corporation as General Manager of Microsoft Business Solutions and Office
Business Applications. His previous experience includes vice president of products and
marketing at Business Objects (now part of SAP), product marketing at Manugistics Group
Inc., head of sales and marketing at an Oracle financial applications company, and a
leadership position at Accenture. He holds an MBA with distinction from Kellogg Business
School and a bachelor of science in engineering from Stanford University.
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John M. Barrie, Ph.D., Chairman & Co-Founder
Dr. John Barrie is co-founder and Executive Chairman of iParadigms. In 1996 iParadigms
set out to create a new model for ascertaining the originality of written work. Dr. Barrie is
the original architect of the technology behind Turnitin, the leading plagiarism prevention
service used by millions of students and faculty in more than 100 countries (including every
university in the U.K.), and iThenticate — a commercial version of Turnitin designed for
publishers and in-use at all of the major scholarly publishers in the English-speaking world.
As a leading expert in his field, Dr. Barrie has been featured on CNN, ABC (Good Morning
America and World News Tonight), CBS (48 Hours with Dan Rather/60 Minutes with Morley
Safer), BBC, the New York Times and USA Today. Dr. Barrie completed his undergraduate
studies in Rhetoric and Neurobiology and his PhD in Biophysics/Neurobiology — both at
the University of California, Berkeley.
Sally Elliott, Chief Operating Officer
Sally Elliott is an academic publishing veteran and information technology executive with
long time experience in building higher education and lifelong learning business ventures.
Prior to joining iParadigms, Ms. Elliott was the President of True Outcomes (a Cengage
Learning company) from 2005 to 2007 and CEO of Aplia Inc., a content delivery and
services company focused on providing economic content to the higher education
community from 2001 to 2005. Ms. Elliott served as the VP of Product Development at
Pensare, Inc., a start up company focused on web-based tools for corporate executive and
management education and training from 1998 to 2001, responsible for all areas of product
concept and development. From 1976 to 1997, Ms. Elliott was a leader in the academic
publishing community notably: Senior Editor at MacMillan Publishing (1981-1983) and
President at Benjamin/Cummings Publishing (1989-1996) and President, Consumer
Publishing Group at Addison Wesley Longman (1997). Ms. Elliott also served as a Board
Director for Addison Wesley Longman from 1994 to 1997. Ms. Elliott manages the Turnitin
Sales, Business Development and Marketing units of iParadigms.
George Mazzotta, Chief Financial Officer
George Mazzotta is Chief Financial Officer of iParadigms, LLC. Prior to joining iParadigms
in March 2010, George was CFO of CNET Networks, where he successfully led the
company through a federal stock option investigation and a subsequent change in senior
management. He rebuilt the Finance and Technology organizations and established critical
planning and reporting processes to support business growth. Prior to CNET, George
served at Gap, Inc. as COO of the International Division, where he led the Gap brand
transformation from a centralized organization to an in-market operation, and launched the
Banana Republic brand in Japan. While at Gap, Inc., he also served as Senior Vice
President of Corporate Finance, leading the strategic and financial planning efforts for all
brands and channels, and as CFO of the Banana Republic division, where he was
instrumental in launching the on-line channels for Banana Republic, Old Navy and Gap
brands. Before joining Gap, Inc., George held a variety of finance and operating roles at
Target Corporation. He earned an MBA and a Bachelors of Business Administration in
Finance and Economics from Western Michigan University.
Christian Storm, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Christian Storm is one of the founding members of iParadigms and has served as
iParadigms Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since the inception of the company in 1994. Dr.
Storm came to iParadigms as a graduate student in Biophysics at the University of
California, Berkeley. He has focused on the creation of novel similarity search algorithms,
architecting internet crawler technology, and search systems, which span heterogeneous
databases. Dr. Storm received his doctorate in Biophysics from the University of California,
Berkeley. His work at Berkeley began with analyzing the stability of biologically inspired
pattern recognition systems, which utilize nonlinear dynamics as their informationprocessing medium. From this research he developed a nonlinear systems identification
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methodology that can track nonlinear switching events in near real time. He authored a
paper ("Detection and Classification of Nonlinear Switching Events," Phys Rev E Vol. 66,
2002) on the application of this methodology to breaking hyperchaotic key shifting codes
used in secure communications. Using this methodology he also demonstrated that
epileptic seizures can be anticipated in advance of seizure onset by 15 or more minutes in
a large fraction of seizures. Prior to his doctoral work at Berkeley he was a member of the
weather-sensing group at MIT Lincoln Labs.
John Hartman, Vice President of Engineering
John Hartman joined iParadigms in November of 2008 with over 20 years of software
engineering and product development leadership in both large and small companies. Most
recently, Hartman held overall responsibility for development of the patented audio system
for the revolutionary Livescribe Pulse SmartPen, a consumer product that records and
plays audio tied to hand-written paper notes. Prior to LiveScribe, He served as CTO and
Vice President of Engineering for CrossTest, Inc, a software testing vendor serving the
device software market. As Senior Director of Platforms Engineering at Wind River
Systems, Hartman led the Engineering team responsible for developing many of the
company's core product offerings. He started his career in software and hardware
engineering at Varian, developing chromatography systems. He holds a degree from
University of California, Berkeley, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Today,
Hartman leads the Product Development and Site Operations teams at iParadigms.
Liz Rockhold, Vice President, Sales and Customer Care
Joining iParadigms, LLC in September of 2008, Ms. Rockhold brings over 20 years of
experience in building and managing sales and marketing teams and driving growth in start
up, turnaround, and established company environments. Her background includes
extensive experience in the education, and technology industries where she held a variety
of executive positions in sales, marketing, and management. Ms. Rockhold was Director of
Marketing at ABC-CLIO, Director of Technology Sales and Marketing at Cengage Learning,
Manager of Technology Sales at Addison Wesley/Benjamin Cummings, and National Sales
Manager for Education at Macmillan Computer Publishing. Prior experience also includes
positions in sales and management at Borland and Prentice Hall. Ms. Rockhold manages
the Sales and Customer Care teams at iParadigms.
Chris Harrick, Vice President of Marketing
Chris Harrick joined iParadigms as Vice President of Marketing in December 2010. Chris
previously served as Vice President of Marketing at SugarCRM, where as an early
employee he helped grow the company from a start-up to a leader in the CRM market.
During his time at SugarCRM, Chris oversaw marketing communications, public relations,
demand generation, product marketing, events and the company's commercial web sites.
He also helped the company expand internationally to both Europe and Asia. Prior to
SugarCRM, Chris held a variety of product marketing roles at Siebel Systems. Chris began
his career at Mainspring, an Internet consultancy that was acquired by IBM. He holds an
MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a
bachelor's degree from Boston College.
Additional corporate biographies are located at:
http://www.iparadigms.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=74&lang=us
Section 6.0 Educator’s Preparation
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Many educators are familiar with the saying, “How do you know you got there, if you don’t know where
you’re going?” This phrase is especially apropos for fund seekers. It’s important to know information about
your school/organization, and to be able to clearly define what you want to do. Grant readers look for
complete information, clarity, and a plan. Consider this outline a grant starter. Completing the information
below before beginning the application process can facilitate any application. And of course, while using the
text in this document as a starting point, we recommend that you customize your grant application as
needed to reflect your institution’s perspective.
6.1 EDUCATOR’S PREPARATION OUTLINE
A. About Your School/Organization
1. School/Organization Background/History/Accomplishments
2. Biographies of Key Personnel
3. Permissions to Request Funding from Organization (if needed)
4. School/Organization Contact Information
5. School/Organization Finances (may or may not be required)
6. Organization Internal Revenue Status (is there an existing 501(c)(3)?).
B. What Do You Want To Do?
1. Clarification of Needs/Statement of Goals
2. Population Demographics (Target Audience and Geographical Region Served)
3. Implementation Plan/Community Involvement (if required)
4. Program Timeframe
5. Benchmark/End of Funding Assessment
6. Budget Summary/Summary of Costs
7. Funding Tracking and Accountability
8. Technology in Place or Needed (if applicable)
9. Follow-up Plan.
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