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Inkscape Lesson Step-by-step instructions on how to create an arrow logo using Inkscape.
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Memorable Making Experience Activity (Adapted from Agency by Design) This activity gets students thinking about how they are makers and showcases that everyone can be a maker no matter their experiences or discipline.
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Introduction to Maker Literacy This interactive presentation introduces students to the Libraries' Makerspace, highlighting its services. This slideshow was originally presented to an IMS 201 class.
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Lateral Reading Workshop and Online Activity Included is a PowerPoint presentation to do an in-class activity with students on lateral reading as well as an online activity for distance learning students. The following link leads to the online activity:
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Rating Websites with the CRAAP Test (and Using Lateral Reading) This activity can be done with an example website or with students’ own website they found. It takes about 15-20 minutes to allow enough time for students to rate their articles and participate in a group discussion. The library instructor should introduce the activity by discussing the basics to evaluating resources and highlighting the importance of fact-checking the author and their credentials. Students should be encouraged to fact-check the webpage by Googling information about the site. After students are given about 15 minutes to rate their webpage, the library instructor will ask for participation from students about how they rated their webpage using the different criteria.
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Choosing "Good" and "Bad" Resources Activity This is a 10-15 minute active learning activity that has students look at the varying context of information sources. It hopefully sparks a conversation among students so that they can reflect on what kinds of sources they need to best match their information needs.
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Developing Keywords to Search After students do the freewrite in the first question, questions 2 and 3 are then modeled on a large whiteboard with an example research question. After modeling how to break down a research question into major concepts and coming up with synonyms for each concept, students are asked to work independently on this. After a few minutes students can trade worksheets with a partner and add on to that students list of keywords or students can simply recall what they wrote down with feedback from the library instructor. Students use this worksheet to help them search for relevant articles on their topics.
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Early Semester Personal Library Research Response For this assignment, you are to locate and describe sources relating to your own experience. Use library resources to find and describe two sources. Find and describe two sources related to one of the following three questions ...