Mandy Cumbridge, Learning & Research Support Co-ordinator (School of Arts), City University, has a survey on academic librarians involvement in teaching students about avoiding plagiarism: go tohttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2ik_2bwPgG1oiVGU65Wj5_2fdg_3d_3d (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here
State: ArkansasPulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, Arkansas, one of the state’s fastest growing two-year colleges, is seeking an energetic and innovative librarian to advance the College’s information literacy (IL) initiative. The Instruction and Reference Librarian must demonstrate effective teaching skills, design and provide instruction for the course-integrated (IL) program, monitor IL assessment, and [...]
Looks at NASA’s past, present, and future missions. It includes interactive tables and searches for earth, heliophysics, planetary, and astrophysics missions; information about dark matter and dark energy, planets around other stars, climate change, Mars, and space weather; science questions for NASA science missions; a “citizen scientist” page of resources to help citizens engage in [...]
ED Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement Doug Mesecar visited the Self Enhancement Inc., Academy in Portland, Ore., today to present a $9,500,000 Charter School Program grant award to the Oregon Department of Education. Susan Castillo, Oregon State Superintendent of Public Instruction, joined Mesecar for the announcement. More: continued here
Citation for the article:Strayer, Jean-Jacques. “ERIC Database Alternatives and Strategies for Education Researchers.” Reference Services Review 36.1 (2008): 86-96.Read via Emerald.I am in the middle of a weeding project for the library’s reference section. I will spare my two readers the details, but I will say it has been a bit of a learning experience. [...]
I’m running a workshop for the ARLIS (art librarians) conference today (on social networking tools; I will be posting about that). Information literacy items I happened to come across whilst preparing were:- A 43 page document (updated most recently July 2007): Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines at http://www.arlisna.org/resources/onlinepubs/informationcomp.pdf- A 6 page report from [...]
Heather Harrison is in her second year of the LIS Program at Wayne State University where she serves as Vice President of the ALA student chapter. She assists the WSU chapter in planning events, library tours, and workshops for fellow students. In addition to her studies, Heather works as a Graduate Student Assistant at WSU’s [...]
Is a guide book for using calculator-controlled robots with students in Grades 6-9 over the course of one semester. Missions are built sequentially on the knowledge of previous activities. The first missions have step-by-step programming instructions; in later missions, students create their own programs. Students use math and science concepts to direct their robots through [...]
When you visit ED.gov, why do you come — what do you hope to accomplish? We are trying to identify the most important or popular tasks that people hope to accomplish at ED.gov, the main website of the U.S. Department of Education. Please help! Simply select the 5 tasks that are most important to you [...]
I’ve spent the early weeks of Summer 2008 catching up on my reading. I’ve finally read Wikinomics, for example. I’m also trolling through my Google reader, bookmarks and photocopies of short pieces that I promised myself I would pay closer attention to “when there’s time.†In these articles and posts and books I’ve noticed a [...]