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The iPad goes back to school - 1 views

www.macworld.com/...-ipad-goes-back-to-school.html iPads higher education
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  • fleschnerj on 17 Sep 12
     
    Good article showing what others are doing with iPads
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The approachable reference desk - 1 views

crln.acrl.org/...70.full.pdf Reference Desk Library
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  • fleschnerj on 06 Feb 12
     
    A faithful retelling of a library's desire to replace their reference desk.
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At Last: Our Publicly Accessible Portal to Search, Browse, and Read ECCO-TCP ... - 1 views

textcreate.wordpress.com/...earch-browse-and-read-ecco-tcp Enlightenment ECCO search libraries
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  • Mark Lindner on 01 Mar 12
     
    I'm delighted to report that this is no longer the case: the University of Michigan-based implementation of the ECCO-TCP texts can now be fully explored by the general public: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/.
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Update: More than 90,000 USGS Historical Topographical Maps Now Online « INFO... - 1 views

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  • Mark Lindner on 09 Oct 11
     
    Map resource
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Usability Testing With Card Sorting - 1 views

sixrevisions.com/...card-sorting usability userstudies interface design
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  • Sara Thompson on 07 Oct 11
     
    Descriptions of different kinds of card sorting, using blank page templates as part of the card sorting process, finding people, and other good tips.
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M Ryan Hess | DePaul University | Web Services Coordinator - 1 views

works.bepress.com/mryanhess libguides webdesign info-literacy libraries presentations
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  • Sara Thompson on 25 Jul 12
     
    Presentations on LibGuides, library applications, web analytics
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Connect to KU - The University of Kansas - 1 views

connect.ku.edu social examples education webtools ideasfile
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  • Sara Thompson on 04 Nov 11
     
    A well-organized table of various social media accounts from departments across the University of Kansas.
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Best practices for integrating e-books in academic libraries | The Search Principle: vi... - 1 views

blogs.ubc.ca/...-e-books-in-academic-libraries collection development eBooks best practices
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  • Deb Robertson on 17 Sep 12
     
    This posting offers links and references to several other articles on this topic.
  • Deb Robertson on 17 Sep 12
     
    Still trying to solve this puzzle
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Is There a Difference Between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy? | Weiner | Jo... - 1 views

ojs.lboro.ac.uk/...1575 critical thinking information literacy thinking
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  • Deb Robertson on 09 Feb 12
     
    This paper investigates the similarities and differences between two important ideas in information processing and knowledge utilisation. Those ideas are [critical thinking] and [information literacy]. This suggests that [information literacy] and its associated procedures could significantly augment current instruction in [critical thinking] and indeed, the possibility has been explored by some authors in the current literature. A merging of the two ideas would involve [information literacy] providing tools and techniques in the processing and utilisation of knowledge and [critical thinking] supplying the particulars and interpretations associated with a specific discipline. This type of integration could lead to instructional programs similar in concept and application to those in research methodology where methods from statistics are integrated with the techniques and skills associated with a specific discipline. The development of a curriculum of this type would change functions and perceptions from private, individualised mentation, now associated with [critical thinking], to a more easily learned and practiced process suitable across the breadth of disciplines.
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Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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  • In large part, the problem is that graduate students pursuing their doctorates get little or no training in how students learn. When these graduate students become faculty members, he said, they might think about the content they want students to learn, but not the cognitive capabilities they want them to develop.
  • Such approaches would demand much more of students and faculty. Students should be made to grapple with the material and receive authentic and explicit practice in thinking like an expert, Mr. Wieman said. Faculty would need to provide timely and specific feedback, and move beyond lectures in which students can sit passively receiving information.
  • Higher education once was immune, he said, until the spread of online learning, which will allow lower-cost providers to extend into the higher reaches of the marketplace. "Higher education," he said, "is vulnerable to disruption." And, while students are changing, several speakers described conventional teaching approaches as being ineffective.
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  • "We assume that telling people things without asking them to actively process them results in learning," Mr. Wieman said. The conference, which also featured demonstrations of innovative approaches to teaching, was the first event in a new Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
  • Take, for example, the lecture, which came up for frequent shellacking throughout the day. It is designed to transfer information, said Eric Mazur, professor of physics at Harvard. But it does not fully accomplish even this limited task. Lectures set up a dynamic in which students passively receive information that they quickly forget after the test. "They're not confronted with their misconceptions," Mr. Mazur said. "They walk out with a false sense of security."
  • The traditional lecture also fails at other educational goals: prodding students to make meaning from what they learn, to ask questions, extract knowledge, and apply it in a new context.
  • Asking students to explain concepts or to teach one another the material they have just learned are also effective.
  • Writing is often an effective pedagogical tool, too, several speakers said. For his history of psychology course, Mr. Roediger asks his students to send him short essays before each class meets. They respond to the reading. (Others at the conference who use this method said they sometimes ask their students to identify outstanding questions or relevant areas of their reading that have been left unexplored.) Mr. Roediger reads the one-page essays before class and works their thoughts into his comments.
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Design New Site | Usability.gov - 1 views

www.usability.gov/...index.html webdesign tips usability userstudies howto
shared by Sara Thompson on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 26 Oct 11
     
    A step by step guide to a website redesign process. Some great food for thought!
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Book: A Futurist's Manifesto | Just another PressBooks site - 1 views

book.pressbooks.com ebooks publishing writing reading to-read future interface
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  • Sara Thompson on 04 Nov 11
     
    Part One of online ebook about electronic publishing; includes chapters on metadata, DRM, design, and distribution
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At Play in the Academic Library - 1 views

theoutreachlibrarian.com/...atplay play academic libraries
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  • fleschnerj on 04 Oct 12
     
    Of the many experiences students expect to have in an academic library, play probably never comes to mind. Seeing a coffee shop within the library probably feels familiar, as do comfortable chairs, and of course they expect librarians, study rooms, and books, and Wii…wait, what?!
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Why Kids Can't Search - 1 views

www.wired.com/...st_thompson_searchresults Digital Native Searching Research
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  • fleschnerj on 08 Nov 11
     
    The more I read about digital natives, the more I want to call the idea bunk. (I used to be a big proponent of the concept.)
  • Sara Thompson on 08 Nov 11
     
    Oh the idea is completely bunk. Just had a little rant about that on my blog.
  • fleschnerj on 09 Nov 11
     
    Ah! I must read that. Perhaps an article on the topic? I've been keeping halfway decent records of reference/computer questions. Combine that with anecdotal evidence from you and we might have a nice little read...
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E-book acquisition based on use and demand could save libraries thousands | Inside High... - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...could-save-libraries-thousands coll-dev libraries ebooks
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  • Sara Thompson on 22 Nov 11
     
    Interesting little case study example of patron-driven acquisition. 
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Information Technology and Libraries: Vol 31, No 1 (2012) - 1 views

ejournals.bc.edu/...current articles usability webdesign libraries research to-read
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  • Articles Copyright: Regulation Out of Line with our Digital Reality? PDF Abigail J. McDermott 7-20 Library Use of Web-based Research Guides PDF Jimmy Ghaphery, Erin White 21-31 Investigations into Library Web-Scale Discovery Services PDF Jason Vaughan 32-82 Usability Test Results for a Discovery Tool in an Academic Library PDF Jody Condit Fagan, Meris A. Mandernach, Carl S. Nelson, Jonathan R. Paulo, Grover Saunders
  • Sara Thompson on 06 Mar 12
     
    First open-access e-version issue
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Developing a Library Copyright Policy | EIFL - 1 views

www.eifl.net/oping-library-copyright-policy copyright libraries librariana
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  • Mark Lindner on 11 Mar 12
     
    Could be useful if/when we decide to have a copyright policy
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Framing Transliterate Learning Through Inquiry and Participatory Culture « Li... - 1 views

librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/...uiry-and-participatory-culture transliteracy literacy 21st-century_learner
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  • Deb Robertson on 08 Nov 11
     
    This posting includes a very good PPT file that I think we could use to bring others into the fold.
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Making the Case for CMS! - 1 views

www.slideshare.net/...making-the-case-for-cms webdesign webtools presentation
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  • Sara Thompson on 29 Oct 11
     
    Reasons to use a CMS for library website, with supporting arguments for IT, Admin, and Staff concerns
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