Archive for 'Faculty'
Reading Between the Assignment’s Lines
Project Information Literacy has a new study out that complements their earlier work. In the new study, PIL researchers collected and examined research assignment prompts to see how they guide students toward good sources, and discovered that … they don’t. That is, the assignments tend to be fairly specific about the surface features of what [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on July 13th, 2010 under Faculty, Information Literacy.
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Envisioning the Academy’s Digital Future
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to attend a fantastic symposium: The Digital University: Power Relations, Publishing, Authority and Community in the 21st Century Academy, held at the CUNY Graduate Center here in New York City. The day was chock full of presentations and conversations on the implications of digital technologies on teaching, [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on April 23rd, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: PowerPoint
Among academic bloggers, yet another battle is raging in the PowerPoint wars.
Margaret Soltan, English professor and the venerable curmudgeon of University Diaries, links to a student’s blog to show how PowerPoint enables and encourages shoddy teaching.
Fellow English professor Alan Jacobs agrees, pointing to students’ sense of entitlement that results from PowerPoint.
Jonathan Rees, professor of history, [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on November 15th, 2009 under Faculty, Teaching, Technology Issues.
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Encouraging Engagement
Right now we’re in the midst of our busiest time in the semester for instruction at my library. I coordinate our information literacy program so instruction is always a big part of my job, but it looms even larger for me at this time of year. If I’m not teaching a class, I’m probably thinking [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on November 14th, 2009 under Faculty, Information Literacy, Student Issues, Teaching.
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Celebrating Open Access Week
Last week was Open Access Week, and my library hosted an afternoon program for faculty. We started things off with a brief introduction to open access scholarly journal publishing. After a quick review of the origins and history of OA, we discussed the benefits of OA journals for faculty, students, libraries, universities, and the general [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on October 27th, 2009 under Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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