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ENG 111 (2022)
The ENG 111: Miami University Libraries module uses digital resources to develop and strengthen your ability to identify, locate, and evaluate, different types of information. Items include text tutorials, videos, interactive exercises to practice concepts, and short quizzes. -
ENG 111 Library Instruction (2021)
Intended for students to learn how to use basic library research services, like how to find instructional videos and relevant resources for their current assignment. -
Maker Literacy Student Learning Outcomes
This document details the Maker Literacy Student Learning Outcomes as well as how students can achieve each outcome at the foundational, emerging, and culminating levels. -
STEM Resource Video Series: GeoRef and GeoScience World
This video covers both databases because GeoRef is integrated into GeoScience World, but you can also use them on their own, so it can be a bit confusing to talk about them separately. This video goes over how to do a search including the different search options in each database, and how to access the full text PDF. -
STEM Resource Video Series: Engineering Village
Engineering Village has a few components to it that are relevant to different areas of study and you can search these together or separately. This video covers a basic search applicable to any portion of Engineering Village and looks at the different filtering options you can use to refine your search. It also examine an article record, goes over how to evaluate it and how to share and save resources with permalinks. Finally as Engineering Village is just an indexing database, and the full text is not stored there, it'll show to use the Find It button to gain full access to the PDFs. -
STEM Resource Video Series: Introduction to Web of Science
This video covers general searching and the citation tracking features that set Web of Science apart from other databases. Web of Science covers quite a few subject areas, across the sciences and engineering; it actually consists of several separate collections you can search separately or all at once. This video goes over the basics that are applicable to any of the collections. -
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
This lesson presented on a Google Site, works with students on how to break down the scholarly article into manageable parts. Students are provided techniques on how to read a scholarly such as looking first at the abstract, introduction, and conclusion to discover more about the article before diving in further. -
Know Your News
This series of activities presented with Google Sites, has students distinguish between real and fake news. -
Scholarly, Popular, and Beyond!
Presented on Google Sites, this activity can be used synchronously or asynchronously that helps students differentiate between scholarly and popular sources. -
Creating a Keychain 3D Model
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Inkscape Lesson
Step-by-step instructions on how to create an arrow logo using Inkscape. -
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.