Open access to scholarly information is slowly catching on.
"...articles by UC-affiliated authors accepted for publication in a Springer journal beginning in 2009 will be published using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate open access..."
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/19335
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Life Magazine Image Archive
Google now offers a search page for thousands of photographs from the archives of Life magazine. You can search by keyword, time period, or topic. The collection includes both published and unpublished photographs taken for Life magazine. http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Another source of images is the AP Images, available through the library's research databases. Photographs go back to the 1800s. http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/Research_Tools/ereference.asp#imgs
Another source of images is the AP Images, available through the library's research databases. Photographs go back to the 1800s. http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/Research_Tools/ereference.asp#imgs
Winter Quarter Faculty Development Series in the Library
All sessions will take place in Library Classroom T @ Seattle Central Community College. Save these dates. RSVP kmchenry@sccd.ctc.edu
Thursday, January 29, 2:00-4:00
Using Academic Databases to Teach your Subject and Build Information Literacy
At this workshop you will learn about library databases and what they can do for you and your students, get caught up on some new and exciting tools, and sample cross-disciplinary applications.
Thursday, February 19th 1:30-3:00
Is That Your Final Answer? Teaching with iClickers and other Student Response Tools
This interactive workshop covers the basics to get started using student response systems (such as iClickers, available at Media Services). These tools are great for engaging students and getting immediate feedback on what they know or think.
Thursday, February 26th , 2:00-4:00
There’s Nothing like a Good Book! An Interactive Workshop for Faculty
The workshop will focus on instructional tools that main-stage the book, and provide a discussion forum about the importance of books in the college experience. Bring your expertise and opinions!
Thursday, January 29, 2:00-4:00
Using Academic Databases to Teach your Subject and Build Information Literacy
At this workshop you will learn about library databases and what they can do for you and your students, get caught up on some new and exciting tools, and sample cross-disciplinary applications.
Thursday, February 19th 1:30-3:00
Is That Your Final Answer? Teaching with iClickers and other Student Response Tools
This interactive workshop covers the basics to get started using student response systems (such as iClickers, available at Media Services). These tools are great for engaging students and getting immediate feedback on what they know or think.
Thursday, February 26th , 2:00-4:00
There’s Nothing like a Good Book! An Interactive Workshop for Faculty
The workshop will focus on instructional tools that main-stage the book, and provide a discussion forum about the importance of books in the college experience. Bring your expertise and opinions!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Notes from the Wikipedia Workshop
What to do about Wikipedia
Teaching Our Students to
Evaluate Information
Presented by Lynn Kanne & Kelley McHenry - November 6, 2008
a definition
A wiki is…
A page or collection of pages designed for collective editing. Every change is tracked.
Wikipedia is…mass collaboration:
A constantly growing free online encyclopedia
- Run by a nonprofit
- Created by “peers”
- Over 9 million pages in 250+ languages…and growing
Wikipedia is not…
A complete repository of all knowledge or a final destination for research.
A directory, publisher of original thought, or a manual
Source: Broughton, John. Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. Cambridge: O’Reilly, 2008. (Available in the library)
everyone is an editor
- Any age
- Any experience or qualifications
- About half live in the US; most others in English speaking countries
- Motivations
- Essjay controversy
"The ethos of Wikipedia is that anyone can contribute, regardless of status… What's relevant is their knowledge as judged by other readers, not whether they are professors or not – and the fact the student [Essjay] was exposed shows it works."[53]
Standards for Wikipedia articles
- Cite reliable sources – all articles must be based on cited information
- Respect copyright
- Article Grades (Featured articles meet the highest standards; wikipedia has developed a rubric for evaluating other articles. Grades are indicated on the discussion pages.)
- Obscure facts: Siegenthaler Incident
- Topic guidelines
These articles didn’t make the grade (thankfully)
o Evil Tutorial
o Famous watermelons
o Lame drivers
o More
evolution of an article
- Stub (the very beginning of an article)
- Refinement (content is added)
- Compromises & discussion – view the discussion section of the article to follow its development
- Content disputes
Help from a more experienced editor
Third opinions
Formal mediation (mediation committee – with binding resolutions)
Trail of crumbs…example
perspectives: student
(From a comment on “How (much) to trust Wikipedia,” a youtube video)
perspectives: researchers
Giles, Jim. "Internet Encyclopaedias go Head to Head. " Nature 438.7070 (2005): 900-1. Research Library Core. ProQuest. Seattle Central Community Coll. Lib. 3 Nov. 2008 http://www.proquest.com.ez.sccd.ctc.edu:2060/
- 42 articles reviewed
- 8 major errors, 4 in each
- 162 minor errors in Wikipedia; 123 in Britannica
- 17% of Nature readers consult Wikipedia
- Less than 10% contribute
other perspectives
An Internet entrepreneur…
Keen, Andrew. Cult of the Amateur. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
other perspectives
Wikipedia?
…might be the best source…about itself: reliability & criticism
Blogosphere?
“A document that anyone in the world can edit sounds like utter anarchy, yet the high quality of the majority of Wikipedia articles disproved that assumption. The reason? Because editors have a greater incentive to fix pages than vandals have to break them. Over time, articles get better and better.”
“Another great advantage of Wikipedia; we know it’s flawed. Subsequently we might even learn to read critically, check sources and perhaps think independently -rather than accept a premise just because it’s there in black and white.”
“Wikipedia isn’t an encyclopedia, it is more like the Guinness book of World Records, you use it to settle stupid bets that no other book is going to touch.”
From: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/johnson/202
Workshop group brainstorm – how to help students evaluate Wikipedia
- Compare to other sources
- Review citations in Wikipedia for quality
- Consider the meaning of the peer review concept
- Emphasize the idea of fact versus opinion
- Have them review the article grading system and consider what it means
- Review date or currency of articles
- Look at the quality of the writing/language used
- Look at the edits and the number of contributors and their activity in Wikipedia
- Ask them to consider whether the writer is biased or if the article is promoting a particular idea or object
- Use Wikipedia as a way to discuss how knowledge is constructed – what it means to “know” something
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Workshops Coming Your Way
Library Open House - October 9 2-3:30
We'll pack this hour with an overview of the exciting information tools at your fingertips, answers to your questions about the library, and of course, delicious treats. New faculty are especially encouraged to attend and all are welcome.
What to Do About Wikipedia - November 6 2-3:30
Wikipedia: Google searches and students' bibliographies are peppered with it. Some of it is authoritative, some of it not so much. Is there a place for it in academic work? Come learn what researchers are saying about the quality of Wikipedia and explore how to help students learn to make responsible use of information, whatever the source. Bring your ideas, concerns, questions and anecdotes.
We'll pack this hour with an overview of the exciting information tools at your fingertips, answers to your questions about the library, and of course, delicious treats. New faculty are especially encouraged to attend and all are welcome.
What to Do About Wikipedia - November 6 2-3:30
Wikipedia: Google searches and students' bibliographies are peppered with it. Some of it is authoritative, some of it not so much. Is there a place for it in academic work? Come learn what researchers are saying about the quality of Wikipedia and explore how to help students learn to make responsible use of information, whatever the source. Bring your ideas, concerns, questions and anecdotes.
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