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This lively discussion at last week’s ITIG DigiCamp included not only a discussion of the pros and cons of various tools, but also of the importance and the challenges of teaching students the why of citing sources. EasyBib was a favorite for its simplicity, perfect for most undergrad papers. At the time of the discussion, [...] Ever since I learned about the Statistical Abstract of the United States when I was in grad school, it has been one of my favorite reference tools. Where else can I easily find the per-capita consumption of asparagus [pdf] as well as data on state government debt [pdf], all with citations leading to the original [...] With so many reports about holiday purchases in the news, this recent report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project on the Use of the internet in higher-income households seems to have been pushed off the screen. The report essentially notes that households making more than $75,000 per year use the internet [...] It's All About the Numbers (02), 2009, Maura Cluthe, http://www.frag-ment-ed.com/ Creative Commons Licensed If your Fall semester has started out anything like mine, you’ve been busy teaching. It might be one-shot introductions to the library for first year students, more intensive sessions for upper-level students with major research projects to complete, and workshops on [...] While many students are gone for the summer, some of us are as busy as we are in the academic year, just with different tasks! The relative quiet sometimes offers time to go back and catch up on reading, and start thinking about plans for the coming year. For some time, part of the process [...] Clarence Maybee and Charlotte Droll from Colgate University described how their group re-invented themselves and worked together with professors and IT folks to enhance student learning and reach information literacy and media goals… [...] Sarah Walkowiak from Brandeis discussed disruptive change and some of the changes they Library has made to change with the times. She highlighted that at Brandeis, the learning goals have been put into an official visual and they are on a banner in front of the library, instead of hidden on a web page, putting [...] Now that the materials from the New Hampshire Library Association’s Spring 2010 Conference are available online, I wanted to mention a few of the instruction-related items that came up. After the keynote speech, I attended the Academic Librarians Roundtable, in which a small but enthusiastic group of librarians (including some great non-academic librarians) shared some [...] Jason from Salem State showed xtranormal, a web-based animated video tool, which he uses in his instruction classes. One movie he demonstrated was an introduction to his services. (He mentioned he had one on databases, but didn’t show it.) He showed the process of making an xtranormal video, including customizing the backgrounds, characters, and adding [...] Laura from Bryant demonstrated PollEverywhere, an audience response system that uses cell phone text messaging (rather than clickers) to poll audiences. Options include multiple choice and free text responses. Polls and poll results can be integrated into Powerpoint. One attendee noted that clickers only allow multiple choice types of questions whereas this offers free text [...] |
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