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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.
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Center for Teaching Excellence Presentations: Information Literacy Strategies to Support Students in the Classroom This two part presentation with through the Center for Teaching Excellence, introduces faculty and staff to information literacy and why it is important to help students be more critical consumers of information. The presentations include a demonstration of learning activities and research assignment ideas for participants to use in their classrooms.
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Researching for the Literature Review
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Planning Checklist for Research Assignments This checklist is intended to help plan effective research assignments for students. It includes suggestions on assignment requirements, research guidance, and support ideas to include in an assignment.
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English 119 Library Instruction Session
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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.
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Know Your News This series of activities presented with Google Sites, has students distinguish between real and fake news.
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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.
