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MME 435: Obtaining a Permalink in Engineering Village
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MBI 147 Lesson Plan
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Primary & Secondary Research
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Planning Your Research for ENG 119
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UNV 101 King Library Exploration This in-class handout introduces students to library resources and services through the university libraries’ website by doing a scavenger hunt type activity. Students learn about such things as how to find databases and subject guides, how to search books and articles as well as how to use the library’s chat service and where to find the Special Collections website.
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Finding Articles This video assists Miami University Students in conducting a basic search for academic articles using the Articles & More tab on the library homepage. It reflects the changes made to the library website in the summer of 2020.
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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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Focusing Your Topic This activity gets students brainstorming their topics before they decide what keywords to use for research. Students are asked to think about the who, what, where, when, and why of their topics. After students brainstorm, they will define three major concepts and synonyms for those major concepts to use as keywords in their database research.
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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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Mediamark, Mintel, and Statista Exercise This in-class handout introduces students to popular business databases for Marketing 291 and highlights how to find information on consumers.
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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.
