Since 2009, librarians at U of T’s Engineering & Computer Science Library have offered a fun orientation-week scavenger hunt that regularly drew in dozens of first-year students, introducing foundational library skills. In 2016, however, participation dropped precipitously leaving librarians to ask ourselves how we could recapture the attention of undergraduates and ensure key library skills would continue to be introduced in those early days.
The answer reached was a reflective process that challenged librarians to look beyond our own expertise and experience and reach out to colleagues in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. A small team of librarians, faculty and staff was established and we began the work of reflecting on student success, curricular expectations, and what foundational library skills were needed to help meet identified informational needs driven by a demanding first-year curriculum.
Our team decided to continue grounding these early learning outcomes in a gamified orientation activity. As engineering education is fundamentally about problem-solving our team agreed that drawing on the popular escape-room model would be a great way to embed our learning outcomes in a problem-based activity. A game narrative was developed both inspired by the 2017 frosh week Star Wars theme and the 40th anniversary of the Sandford Fleming Building fire of 1977. We hoped that by bringing together the technology of Star Wars and Skule (U of T Engineering Society) history, we would create a program that students would be excited to join.
The new activity was strategically promoted, game play was extended to a full month, and the number of players reached close to 300.
This presentation will discuss the reflective process that led to the creation of the game including consultation with stakeholders, narrative development, game ideation, and the successes and challenges of implementation in a busy research library without disrupting day to day operations
Utilizing Rubrics in Your Blackboard Courseagilbert14
This presentation shares background on rubrics, why they may be advantageous to an instructor, and the various ways you could use rubrics in your Blackboard course.
Alexey Bakulev: Let students do our job, or how to design esp materials witho...Trendy English
Today, with the continuously growing expansion of English as a lingua franca of professional communication, nearly each and every EFL teacher faces the necessity to teach English for Specific Purposes. Popular, demanded and engaging as it may be, the task tends to appear challenging due to many EFL teachers' low level of expertise in relevant professional fields. In the talk, the speaker focuses on a number of practical tools that may considerably facilitate educational process in the ESP classroom. Special attention is drawn to students' involvement in the selection and/or design of materials and exercises relevant for the course. Students, in fact, assume the role of immediate teaching assistants and are, to the speaker's mind, eligible to undertake the task due to the extensive specialization training they have been experiencing. Through students' engagement not only can teachers accumulate high-quality course input and activities, but also learners' autonomy is seen to advantage through the development of self-study, peer-teaching and peer-assessment skills.
Utilizing Rubrics in Your Blackboard Courseagilbert14
This presentation shares background on rubrics, why they may be advantageous to an instructor, and the various ways you could use rubrics in your Blackboard course.
Alexey Bakulev: Let students do our job, or how to design esp materials witho...Trendy English
Today, with the continuously growing expansion of English as a lingua franca of professional communication, nearly each and every EFL teacher faces the necessity to teach English for Specific Purposes. Popular, demanded and engaging as it may be, the task tends to appear challenging due to many EFL teachers' low level of expertise in relevant professional fields. In the talk, the speaker focuses on a number of practical tools that may considerably facilitate educational process in the ESP classroom. Special attention is drawn to students' involvement in the selection and/or design of materials and exercises relevant for the course. Students, in fact, assume the role of immediate teaching assistants and are, to the speaker's mind, eligible to undertake the task due to the extensive specialization training they have been experiencing. Through students' engagement not only can teachers accumulate high-quality course input and activities, but also learners' autonomy is seen to advantage through the development of self-study, peer-teaching and peer-assessment skills.
Using Elluminate Live! to deliver Library training 2010Helen Clough
Delivered at 'Web 2.0 Untangled: Reaching and teaching our users with new technologies' at Wolfson College, Oxford on 24th November 2010.
The event was organised by CILIP's University, College and Research (UC&R) Group and College of Further and Higher Education (CoFHE) group.
Presentation for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Lansing Community College to share results from my sabbatical project, as well as practical applications for developing research assignments. Thanks to Maricopa Community College for sharing an <a>assignment planning checklist and sample assignment</a> that I adapted and used in the workshop.
Presentation from the Sept. 2012 Principal's Coffee - provided by Lynn Belmonte, principal, Hammer Montessori Magnet Elementary School. For more information on Hammer Montessori Magnet Elementary School - the only public Montessori school in Santa Clara County, please visit www.hammermontessori.com.
What changes do 21st C school libraries have to embrace in order to remain relevant? A look at the change process, how one school re-envisioned itself, and how to achieve similar changes through thoughtful programming and design choices.
Getting Started With Omeka (DHSI 2015 Unconference)jkmcgrath
Slides from 2015 DHSI "unconference" session titled "Getting Started with Omeka." Slides are slightly tweaked / condensed from HASTAC Webinar slides used in early 2015 by Jim (see my SlideShare page for those slides).
Using Elluminate Live! to deliver Library training 2010Helen Clough
Delivered at 'Web 2.0 Untangled: Reaching and teaching our users with new technologies' at Wolfson College, Oxford on 24th November 2010.
The event was organised by CILIP's University, College and Research (UC&R) Group and College of Further and Higher Education (CoFHE) group.
Presentation for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Lansing Community College to share results from my sabbatical project, as well as practical applications for developing research assignments. Thanks to Maricopa Community College for sharing an <a>assignment planning checklist and sample assignment</a> that I adapted and used in the workshop.
Presentation from the Sept. 2012 Principal's Coffee - provided by Lynn Belmonte, principal, Hammer Montessori Magnet Elementary School. For more information on Hammer Montessori Magnet Elementary School - the only public Montessori school in Santa Clara County, please visit www.hammermontessori.com.
What changes do 21st C school libraries have to embrace in order to remain relevant? A look at the change process, how one school re-envisioned itself, and how to achieve similar changes through thoughtful programming and design choices.
Getting Started With Omeka (DHSI 2015 Unconference)jkmcgrath
Slides from 2015 DHSI "unconference" session titled "Getting Started with Omeka." Slides are slightly tweaked / condensed from HASTAC Webinar slides used in early 2015 by Jim (see my SlideShare page for those slides).
Pfau Long Architecture hosted a workshop at CAIS 2016 on learning commons. The workshop focused on how educators and designers are working toward a common goal of how to evolve a traditional study space for learning. The learning commons concept is becoming increasingly widespread for libraries at public and independent schools as well as colleges and universities. One of the drivers of adopting a learning commons approach is to mirror the real world by encouraging a more hands-on approach to research and problem solving.
Opening Doors and Creating Opportunities for Adjunct Library FacultyEmma Clausen
Slides prepared for a short talk on supporting the professional development and growth of adjunct library faculty at the 2015 ACRL Washington and Oregon Joint Conference in Eatonville, WA, October 2015.
Libraries are places of exploration and a natural place to support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). In this webinar, students will explore ways to incorporate STEM into school and public library programming. We use a variety of tools and kits in our library for exploration, such as LEGOs, Arx 2.0, Joinx, KEVA planks, and Snap Circuits, Jr.
Shpt school of library science promotion pptSarika Sawant
This presentation is to make aware of Library Science course of SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women's University. It describes the history, developments and scope.
C. G. O’Kelly Library’s OK Scholar’s Institute
Mae Rodney, Winston Salem State University
C. G. O’Kelly Library has a rich collection of print and electronic resources but traditional library output measures – questions asked, use of databases – declined despite an increase in instruction sessions offered.
The Internet gave patrons immediate fulfillment of their search requests; cutting and pasting information was effortless; so the Internet became students’ primary research tool. Informal assessments of students’ written papers confirmed the habit of cutting and pasting and not citing sources. Faculty members complained more about the quality of students’ final papers. To counter students’ reliance on the Internet, many faculty members’ assignments directed students not to use any Internet resources. This did not correct the problem! Faculty members remained unhappy with the quality of students’ papers.
Librarians wanted to teach students information literacy skills to help them locate, evaluate and use information. To achieve that goal, faculty members required more information about library services and collections along with techniques to develop quality library assignments.
A request was made for Title III funds to sponsor annual workshops for five years to help faculty members develop techniques to create assignments that require students to locate, use and evaluate library resources to complete their written assignments.
The O’K Fellows experience is positively impacting library services – the contact between students and librarians has increased by over 100 percent and the number of electronic searches completed rose by 300 percent during 2007-08. Instruction sessions offered in Fall 2008 already equal the total number for the entire 2006-07 academic year. Faculty members are recommending the institute to other faculty members.
Mae Rodney is the Director of Library Services in the C. G. O’Kelly Library at Winston Salem State University
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
7. Reflect on Past Experience
• Attendance numbers fluctuated
• Low in recent years
• No natural integration with faculty in 2017
• Engineering students like puzzles, challenges
• Havenger Scunt a yearly F!rosh tradition
• Gamified activity for first year design course
8. Chief Librarian’s Innovation Grant
• The grant: One-time-only funding to
implement unique projects that have the
potential to be transformative for UTL
and the communities we serve
• Partnership with faculty and staff in
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Purchased breakout boxes
• Create videos and purchase/create props
for the game
9. Consultation
• Worked with team members
• Key members of the Faculty of Applied
Science & Engineering community
• Identify learning outcomes
• Create narrative
• Link to F!rosh week activities
• Suggestions for marketing
10. Learning Outcomes
• Find the library
• Ask a question at the Reference Help
Desk
• Use the library catalogue to find a
book by title
• Use a call number to find a book on
the shelf
• Use a database to access a technical
standard
• Find the Course Reserves/Short Term
Loan collection
19. Reflection
• Game stats:
• 74 teams, 293 players
• 65% completed within 1 hour, 80% completed the game
• Fastest time: 20:11 (adjusted time)
• Feedback from players generally positive
20. Challenges & Opportunities
• Multiple games played back-to-back
• Clue confusion
• “User error”
• Location of Short Term Loan/Course Reserves
• Students asked a lot of questions!
21. Conclusion
• Students generally were able to meet the learning outcomes
• Fundamental aspects of library and services
• Positive experience
• We would run it again!
• Robarts is looking to do something similar for September 2018
