Information literacy instruction session delivered to first year students. Topics covered included APA ciation, Google syntax and search strategies, library catalogue searching, and database interface features and functionality.
Be careful what you wish for - PSA Convention speech, by Graeme CodringtonGraeme Codrington
These are the slides I used to support my keynote presentation at the Professional Speaking Association MEGA Convention 2013 in Manchester. The talk was about the life of professional speakers, and some of the "behind the scenes" of what it takes to make a success of professional speaking as a life choice.
What I've learnt as a Software Engineer in the past year at Bending SpoonsSpeck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Face reality: the work of a software engineer is not only made of software. You work with other people and need coordination, planning, meetings. Developers experience a continuous flow of interruption and changes: emails, chat messages, and always-changing requirements kill productivity. It is easy to get overwhelmed and stuck. I will share some ideas and tricks not directly connected to development, but crucial for every software engineer.
Bios: Simon graduated in Computer Science with full marks at the University of Bicocca. He worked as a software engineer for several years and for different companies (XPeppers, Garr, CERN, etc.) and joined BP in April 2018. At Bending Spoons he works in the Support Tools team, a group responsible for developing internal tools to support, automize the work of different teams and managing the different backends of Bending Spoons' apps.
Davide joined Bending Spoons in December 2018 as a software engineer after graduating in Computer Science with full marks from the University of Trento. He works in Marketing Technology, a team responsible to build tools for marketing (Paid Users Acquisition and Apple Store Optimization). Before joining Bending Spoons, he was working at Fondazione Bruno Kessler as a software developer in the Health and Wellbeing research unit.
Be careful what you wish for - PSA Convention speech, by Graeme CodringtonGraeme Codrington
These are the slides I used to support my keynote presentation at the Professional Speaking Association MEGA Convention 2013 in Manchester. The talk was about the life of professional speakers, and some of the "behind the scenes" of what it takes to make a success of professional speaking as a life choice.
What I've learnt as a Software Engineer in the past year at Bending SpoonsSpeck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Face reality: the work of a software engineer is not only made of software. You work with other people and need coordination, planning, meetings. Developers experience a continuous flow of interruption and changes: emails, chat messages, and always-changing requirements kill productivity. It is easy to get overwhelmed and stuck. I will share some ideas and tricks not directly connected to development, but crucial for every software engineer.
Bios: Simon graduated in Computer Science with full marks at the University of Bicocca. He worked as a software engineer for several years and for different companies (XPeppers, Garr, CERN, etc.) and joined BP in April 2018. At Bending Spoons he works in the Support Tools team, a group responsible for developing internal tools to support, automize the work of different teams and managing the different backends of Bending Spoons' apps.
Davide joined Bending Spoons in December 2018 as a software engineer after graduating in Computer Science with full marks from the University of Trento. He works in Marketing Technology, a team responsible to build tools for marketing (Paid Users Acquisition and Apple Store Optimization). Before joining Bending Spoons, he was working at Fondazione Bruno Kessler as a software developer in the Health and Wellbeing research unit.
Creating a Data-Driven Government: Big Data With PurposeTyrone Grandison
The U.S. Department of Commerce collects, processes and disseminates data on a range of issues that impact our nation. Whether it's data on the economy, the environment, or technology, data is critical in fulfilling the Department's mission of creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. It is this data that provides insight, drives innovation, and transforms our lives. The U.S. Department of Commerce has become known as "America's Data Agency" due to the tens of thousands of datasets including satellite imagery, material standards and demographic surveys.
But having a host of data and ensuring that this data is open and accessible to all are two separate issues. The latter, expanding open data access, is now a key pillar of the Commerce Department's mission. It was this focus on enhancing open data that led to the creation of the Commerce Data Service (CDS).
The mission at the Commerce Data Service is to enable more people to use big data from across the department in innovative ways and across multiple fields. In this talk, I will explore how we are using big data to create a data-driven government.
This talk is a keynote given at the Texas tech University's Big Data Symposium.
Intercultural Education through Religious Studies (IERS)
News from the Third IERS meeting
IERS Digital Modules: An overview
IERS Digital Modules on Islam: An overview
Politics Acknowleding the importance of studying Religions in schools
Selection of our partner schools
IERS Teaching Training Course
KA1 Teachers Mobility: A Digital Modules Training Course
IERS on Facebook: Give us your feedback
IERS final dissemination event
Why do we need Education about Religions?
A common voice from the school world.
The Pilot Phase - Evaluation
Pilot Experience by one of the German Teachers
IERS Project as an example of good practice
The Voice of a Piloting Teacher and his Pupils
In-Service teacher training course
A presentation about navigating the current social media scene, circa 2013. This presentation deeply utilizes data from an infographic presented in this blog post. http://socialbarrel.com/how-brands-can-choose-the-right-social-media-platforms-for-their-goals-infographic/52084/
Create and Prepare Ubuntu 14.04 VM TemplateImad Daou
The following Course will focus mainly on a private Virtual Environment such VirtualBox or VMware Station. However, if you are willing to setup straight on DigitalOcean or Vultr, then you can skip this slide. But, I highly recommend to go through it to build In-house local Web Hosting Server for testing or developing purpose. After all, the concept is same on either Private or Public Virtual environment.
Benefits of Content Curation #13NTCCur8Aquifer Media
Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it, and sharing the very best content with your network. Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. With so much information coming at us from social networks,web sites, emails, and other digital sources,we can no longer afford to sit and whine about it. Content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. In addition, there are benefits for both nonprofit organization and the people who work for them, like improving staff expertise, thought leadership, and forming the base of your content strategy pyramid
Creating a Data-Driven Government: Big Data With PurposeTyrone Grandison
The U.S. Department of Commerce collects, processes and disseminates data on a range of issues that impact our nation. Whether it's data on the economy, the environment, or technology, data is critical in fulfilling the Department's mission of creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. It is this data that provides insight, drives innovation, and transforms our lives. The U.S. Department of Commerce has become known as "America's Data Agency" due to the tens of thousands of datasets including satellite imagery, material standards and demographic surveys.
But having a host of data and ensuring that this data is open and accessible to all are two separate issues. The latter, expanding open data access, is now a key pillar of the Commerce Department's mission. It was this focus on enhancing open data that led to the creation of the Commerce Data Service (CDS).
The mission at the Commerce Data Service is to enable more people to use big data from across the department in innovative ways and across multiple fields. In this talk, I will explore how we are using big data to create a data-driven government.
This talk is a keynote given at the Texas tech University's Big Data Symposium.
Intercultural Education through Religious Studies (IERS)
News from the Third IERS meeting
IERS Digital Modules: An overview
IERS Digital Modules on Islam: An overview
Politics Acknowleding the importance of studying Religions in schools
Selection of our partner schools
IERS Teaching Training Course
KA1 Teachers Mobility: A Digital Modules Training Course
IERS on Facebook: Give us your feedback
IERS final dissemination event
Why do we need Education about Religions?
A common voice from the school world.
The Pilot Phase - Evaluation
Pilot Experience by one of the German Teachers
IERS Project as an example of good practice
The Voice of a Piloting Teacher and his Pupils
In-Service teacher training course
A presentation about navigating the current social media scene, circa 2013. This presentation deeply utilizes data from an infographic presented in this blog post. http://socialbarrel.com/how-brands-can-choose-the-right-social-media-platforms-for-their-goals-infographic/52084/
Create and Prepare Ubuntu 14.04 VM TemplateImad Daou
The following Course will focus mainly on a private Virtual Environment such VirtualBox or VMware Station. However, if you are willing to setup straight on DigitalOcean or Vultr, then you can skip this slide. But, I highly recommend to go through it to build In-house local Web Hosting Server for testing or developing purpose. After all, the concept is same on either Private or Public Virtual environment.
Benefits of Content Curation #13NTCCur8Aquifer Media
Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it, and sharing the very best content with your network. Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. With so much information coming at us from social networks,web sites, emails, and other digital sources,we can no longer afford to sit and whine about it. Content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. In addition, there are benefits for both nonprofit organization and the people who work for them, like improving staff expertise, thought leadership, and forming the base of your content strategy pyramid
Find company reports in EBSCO Business Source CompleteJulie Anne Kent
Created for an Organizational / Human Resource course (BBUS) at Thompson River's University, this guide is embedded into the research guide in support of student learning outcomes. http://libguides.tru.ca/BBUS3810.
Twitter: Professional Development and Instruction Tool: Faculty HandoutJulie Anne Kent
Twitter defined: a 140-character micro blog considered one of several Web 2.0 social networking tools, connecting people and information in real time. In an education or training context, Twitter is a powerful way for educators / instructors / trainers / researchers to publicize research, communicate with students, connect with broader learning or scholarly community, or alert “followers” to resources and events.
Twitter: Professional Development and Instruction Julie Anne Kent
Presentation to faculty on the following points: social networking tools that allows people to share information
a real-time feed to like-minded individuals
in an education or training context could represent a powerful way for educators to publicize research, communicate with their students, be connected with a wider learning or scholarly community, or signpost “followers” to interesting resources, and news stories.
Not all sources on the Web are equally valuable or reliable. Individual sites are not screened or standardized in any way to determine if the information they provide is accurate or useful. Critically evaluating the information you find is central to successful academic research. Determining the credibility of information found on the Web is not always easy - think of the following criteria during evaluation. The World Wide Web offers a great wealth of information, as well as the opportunity for people to express themselves and exchange ideas. This makes it a potentially great place to accomplish research on many topics. But putting documents or pages on the Web is easy, cheap or free, unregulated and unmonitored. If you are using a Web-based source for a research paper, you will need to develop skills to evaluate the credibility and appropriateness of what you find. The following checklist presents questions to ask to help determine whether a Web page is a suitable resource for a research paper, or not. Don't expect to be able to answer all the questions, all the time, for all Web sites you look at. Rather, try to use the questions as a tool to help you look at Web pages critically.
Trends in Teaching and Learning: Enhancing Academic Library ServicesJulie Anne Kent
Collaboration, Technologies, and Interactive instruction are foundational trends in the context of university teaching and learning. Each have functioned in isolation, often independently of another, as three separate silos.
1) Instructors collaborated to create curriculum.
2) Technologies are now ubiquitous with classroom instruction yet not always used to their maximum potentials
3) Instruction and learning are blended incorporating face-to-face class time with the expectation of participation in an online environment such as Moodle and Blackboard.
4) I believe that blended learning is heavily influenced by social / web 2.0 technologies engaging both instructors and students in new ways not only to the material covered but in the process of discovery which might be referred to as interactive engagement and include gaming. I believe blended learning is going to be the most changed trend in coming years.
Designing one-time short library / information literacy instruction is challenging. This example present a structure and resources used to instruct a first year university class in visual community.
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.
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!
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
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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The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
Because we have made purchasing decision based on the curriculum offered here at TRU. IOCBAA I am Julie KentInformation ScientistHave you found reliable and academic resources? When you leave today you will immediately be able to apply the search techniques and strategies I present to you.You will:identify tools on the library catalogue interface to make your search easier and more relevantunderstand the differences between the catalogue and Googleidentify biblographic elementscreate accurate citations
Here is what we are going to do today . . .it is going to be brisk, fresh, and fast.
Years of research and development has created a library catalogue interface that is intuitive and responsive to the way users want to search for items. However, it is still a specific database for which YOU have to learn how it works. Don’t blame the catalogue if you haven’t bothered to learn it’s intricacies and mechanisms.
Let me make it hot for you . . .open the library home page . . The first box is a “unified” search box created to make it resemble Google because you are comfortable with Google’s one box approach. Let’s do some searches together and so you can see for yourself.Let’s use Olympic Games and change the KeyWordLet’s do the same search using Olympic Games as the SUBJECTNote the difference. . . Now let’s look at the details and the catalogue record. OK – you have 5 minutes to search for your topic or area of interest and I will come around to help.
Who uses Google syntax and search terms? Really . . . Well first things first. Go to the research guide created to help you learn how to control Google – http://libguides.tru.ca/google This guide is full of useful things for you know and learn about how to use Google better . . .let me show you.
So here’s how to do it . . . You are looking for the economic effects of Olympic Games . . .use this search stringOlympic games site:.gc.caeffects AND Olympic games site:.gc.ca (site:gov.bc.ca)You will find reports called “The Games Effect” there are a few of themOK – you have 5 minutes to play with it and find some items for you.
Yep, this is how it is. . . Citing your sources boosts the value of your paper by providing your reader with information about where you found the research upon which you have based you paper.
So, here is where you will find the tools to use.http:libguide.tru.ca/apa
Let’s practice . . . Open that URLI made this . . .let’s take a tour.
Economic & Statistics Price Waterhouse Coopers 2009http://www.canada2010.gc.ca/docs/Report-2-Games-Impact-Report-2003-2007-eng.pdf
Price Waterhouse Cooper. (2009). The games effect*. Report 2: Impact of the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games on British Columbia and Canada: 2003 – 2007. Retrieved from Economic and Statistics Services Website: http://www.canada2010.gc.ca/docs/Report-2-Games-Impact-Report-2003-2007-eng.pdf 5 minutes to figure this out . . .OK – use this document and find out how to cite this resource using APA – HINT: it’s on the Reference Guide
Yep, you do and this is how. . . .Library catalogueArticles and IndexesS Let’s start with Academic Search complete . . .follow me as I model how to use the interface.1)make an account2) Use the interface tools3) Use Subject headings.
Really . . .use one concept search at a time and logically combine them . . . Practice practiceYou have 5 minutes to use Academic search complete to find articles on your topic.
You can search the library catalogueYou can search the web more efficientlyYou can locate the resources and tools to make perfect citationsYou can identify bibliographic informationYou can create perfect citationsYou can search databases using tools found on the interface.Wow. . . You can do anything.
