The Library has created new student tutorials for OAKS 10.3. Please feel free to share or embed these tutorials or our playlist in your classes. The tutorials are captioned and fully accessible for your students. Individual tutorials are available on the Library YouTube Channel, below you will see our newly created OAKS 10.3 Student Tutorials Playlist.
Category Archives: Education
Don’t Miss Storing and Sharing Information TODAY@3pm in Addlestone Library – Our Eighth Workshop in the Study Skills Workshops 201 Series
Come learn more about using GoogleDrive for organization and communication with our guest speaker, Hannah Lund from the REACH (Realizing Educational and Career Hopes) Program at the College of Charleston!
Hannah will discuss using GoogleDocs to enhance communication and efficiency with the REACH Student Mentors. Please note, this session will be held in Room 136 (near the Circulation Desk) at the Addlestone Library.
- Thursday, November 7th at 3:00 pm in Addlestone Library Room 136
- Register Now or feel free to stop by!
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201
Miss Some of our Sessions?
No problem! Visit our session guides for What’s New @ the Library?, Let’s Not Meet, Helpful Apps for Studying and Managing College Life, Notes Re-imagined, Current Awareness and Evernote to take a look at the session resources.
More about the Study Skills Workshops 101 & 201
In collaboration with the Center for Student Learning, the Library is co-sponsoring a series of complimentary study skills workshops in fall 2013.
- Workshop Series 101, offered by the Center for Student Learning, is geared towards the general student population wanting more information on study skills. The 101 series occurs three times a week lasting about 50 minutes for each session.
- Workshop Series 201, offered by the Library, is geared towards upper classmen and faculty, staff, and Friends of the Library that are interested in more advanced information literacy skills. The 201 series has guest speakers from all around campus. These workshops will last about a hour and will take place at 3pm on specific Thursdays in Room 120 on the first floor of the Addlestone Library.
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201!
Whether you are an upper classman, graduate student, faculty member, staff member, or Friend of the Library everyone is welcome to attend these workshops. We hope that you can find some time to just relax and learn something new!
Don’t Miss “Current Awareness” Tomorrow – Our Sixth Workshop in the Study Skills Workshops 201 Series – Thursday@3pm in Addlestone Library
Celebrate National Food Day by eating a locally sourced lunch at Liberty Fresh Food Company and learning more about how to stay informed and collect current, and even local, resources about the local food movement at our Current Awareness session! Topics will include building your research toolkit, Social bookmarking, RSS and Alerts, Twitter and Personalized News Readers.
- Thursday, October 24th at 3:00 pm in Addlestone Library Room 120
- Register Now or feel free to stop by!
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201
Miss Some of our Sessions?
No problem! Visit our session guides for What’s New @ the Library?, Let’s Not Meet, Helpful Apps for Studying and Managing College Life, and Notes Re-imagined to take a look at the session resources.
Bitstrip Comic by Petra Sharrett
More about the Study Skills Workshops 101 & 201
In collaboration with the Center for Student Learning, the Library is co-sponsoring a series of complimentary study skills workshops in fall 2013.
- Workshop Series 101, offered by the Center for Student Learning, is geared towards the general student population wanting more information on study skills. The 101 series occurs three times a week lasting about 50 minutes for each session.
- Workshop Series 201, offered by the Library, is geared towards upper classmen and faculty, staff, and Friends of the Library that are interested in more advanced information literacy skills. The 201 series has guest speakers from all around campus. These workshops will last about a hour and will take place at 3pm on specific Thursdays in Room 120 on the first floor of the Addlestone Library.
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201!
Whether you are an upper classman, graduate student, faculty member, staff member, or Friend of the Library everyone is welcome to attend these workshops. We hope that you can find some time to just relax and learn something new!
Don’t Miss A Healthy Mind and Body with Michelle Futrell TODAY at 3 in the Library!
Come to the Addlestone Library TODAY at 3pm to learn how your nutrition can impact your studies, the Do’s and Don’ts of College nutrition and how to survive stress and breaks!
- Thursday, October 3rd at 3:00 pm in Addlestone Library Room 120
- Register Now or feel free to stop by!
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201
Miss the First Four Sessions?
No problem! Visit our session guides for What’s New @ the Library?, Let’s Not Meet, Helpful Apps for Studying and Managing College Life, and Notes Re-imagined to take a look at the session resources.
More about the Study Skills Workshops 101 & 201
In collaboration with the Center for Student Learning, the Library is co-sponsoring a series of complimentary study skills workshops in fall 2013.
- Workshop Series 101, offered by the Center for Student Learning, is geared towards the general student population wanting more information on study skills. The 101 series occurs three times a week lasting about 50 minutes for each session.
- Workshop Series 201, offered by the Library, is geared towards upper classmen and faculty, staff, and Friends of the Library that are interested in more advanced information literacy skills. The 201 series has guest speakers from all around campus. These workshops will last about a hour and will take place at 3pm on specific Thursdays in Room 120 on the first floor of the Addlestone Library.
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201!
Whether you are an upper classman, graduate student, faculty member, staff member, or Friend of the Library everyone is welcome to attend these workshops. We hope that you can find some time to just relax and learn something new!
Don’t Miss “Helpful Apps for Studying and Managing College Life” Tomorrow – Our Fourth Workshop in the Study Skills Workshops 201 Series – Thursday@3pm in Addlestone Library
Come to the Addlestone Library tomorrow at 3pm to learn about helpful apps for studying and managing college life! In our session we will review iStudiez Pro, iProcrastinate, inClass, Outliner, StudyBlue, Quizlet, and Tutor Matching Service.
- Thursday, September 26 at 3:00 pm in Addlestone Library Room 120
- Register Now or feel free to stop by!
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201
Miss the First Three Sessions?
No problem! Visit our session guides for What’s New @ the Library?, Let’s Not Meet and Notes Re-imagined to take a look at the session resources.
More about the Study Skills Workshops 101 & 201
In collaboration with the Center for Student Learning, the Library is co-sponsoring a series of complimentary study skills workshops in fall 2013.
- Workshop Series 101, offered by the Center for Student Learning, is geared towards the general student population wanting more information on study skills. The 101 series occurs three times a week lasting about 50 minutes for each session.
- Workshop Series 201, offered by the Library, is geared towards upper classmen and faculty, staff, and Friends of the Library that are interested in more advanced information literacy skills. The 201 series has guest speakers from all around campus. These workshops will last about a hour and will take place at 3pm on specific Thursdays in Room 120 on the first floor of the Addlestone Library.
- Click here to download a printable workshop calendar for Workshop Series 101 and 201!
Whether you are an upper classman, graduate student, faculty member, staff member, or Friend of the Library everyone is welcome to attend these workshops. We hope that you can find some time to just relax and learn something new!
Facebook Finally Offers Users Encryption
If you regularily use Facebook in the lab or on unsecured wireless hot spots (like Starbucks or Barnes and Noble), you should read Tim Brookes article from from MakeUse.com. The articles explains how to use Facebook’s new setting so your entire Facebook session will be encrypted and less vulnerable to hijacking.
Facebook Finally Offers Users The Encryption They Deserve by Tim Brookes
If you’re an avid Facebook user then there’s one new feature you’ll probably want to enable straight away – the option to login, browse and do all your social networking worry-free, using a secure HTTPS connection to the server.
Facebook previously used HTTPS to handle logins, but from then on the site reverted to a non-secure version. Using the new setting found in the Account Security area under Account Settings (look for Secure Browsing) the whole session will be encrypted and less vulnerable to hijacking.
Users considered to be most at risk are those who regularly login from public access computers and unsecured wireless hot spots. If you do regularly use Facebook from any public places then we’d recommend changing to the HTTPS option as soon as you can.
As a consequence of the secure connection, pages may take longer to load than usual. There are also a large number of applications that are not yet compatible with the HTTPS.
In a blog post, Facebook’s Alex Rice said: “Some Facebook features, including many third-party applications, are not currently supported in HTTPS.
“We’ll be working hard to resolve these remaining issues. We are rolling this out slowly over the next few weeks, but you will be able to turn this feature on in your Account Settings soon. We hope to offer HTTPS as a default whenever you are using Facebook sometime in the future.”
Faculty Focus: Education Remix: Unlocking Creativity to Boost Learning
John Orlando posted a great article this week on Faculty Focus titled Education Remix: Unlocking Creativity to Boost Learning discussing social media and remix culture. One of the most common forms of remix culture is making videos, which can be used as a great learning activity in the classroom. As Orlando states, “remixing is also a fundamentally creative process, as the creator must develop links between two different topics. The process forces the creator to see the topic from new perspectives.”
Orlando also notes that “one simple way to use remixing in your classes is to provide extra credit to students who develop a short video that reinterprets some part of popular culture in a way related to the class subject. The original can be a song, commercial, movie, etc. Students can also remix elements of photographs or text.”
If you are interested in using remix culture in the classroom, or are considering how remixing can foster engagement, creativity, and learning, take a moment to read John Orlando’s article and follow the helpful links he provided in his article below.
Remix examples:
- “Diagnosis Wenckeback” (Student video. A lot of fun. Trust me.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxJJ2DBPiQ - The Class (Parody of “The Office” for a class)
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=254
Discussions:
- TEDxNYED—Lawrence Lessig (Great discussion of remix culture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhTUzNKpfio&feature=player_embedded - The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity (Discussion of social media and communication forms)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gR6VPVrpw - How Social Media can Create History (Discussion of the transformation brought about by social media)
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html
Multimedia Resources for Research and Content Creation October 28th 3 – 4:30pm Addlestone Library, Room 120
A session and Library How-To Research Guide about interdisciplinary resources available to support the creation of scholarly digital projects and presentations.
Are your students creating presentations in your class? Are you tired of the standard linear PowerPoint presentation (a presentation WMD)? This session will showcase the many different production and presentation tools available to you and your students as well as the copyright and fair use considerations that go into creation of digital and online content (ever tried to put something up on YouTube and suffered the “copyright infringement smack down?”). Learn about the creative commons, the Center for Social Media, and online production tools for any kind of multimedia presentation. From finding media for digital storytelling to creating exceptionally memorable presentations with new software tools, this LITE session will spice up your teaching, your presentations, and pretty much your life* in general.
Feel free to stop in or email vanarnhemj@cofc.edu to reserve your seat for Thursday at 3pm in the Addlestone.
*please note that knowledge of digital presentation whiz-bang is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for life spicing
Don’t forget to come to the Bryant Holsenbeck Exhibit opening this Friday!
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Don’t forget to come to the Bryant Holsenbeck Exhibit opening this Friday (October 22) at 5pm-7pm in the Addlestone Library Rotunda! While you are there, take a moment to read the QR Code (accessible by a code reader app on your phone) on each poster to find out more about sustainability efforts at the College of Charleston. Need a QR Code Reader? Visit the QR Code Research Guide to Find one! |
| Guests can also walk to the Halsey Institute for the Chris Jordan exhibit opening, Running the Numbers, presented by bluesphere: earth art expo. | |
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Students in Professor Caroline Hunt’s English 110 course, part of the learning community Critical Thinking: Catalyst for Success collected and delivered bottle caps and lids for the Bryant Holsenbeck installation
Students in Professor Caroline Hunt’s English 110 course, part of the learning community Critical Thinking: Catalyst for Success collected and delivered bottle caps and lids for the Bryant Holsenbeck installation, researched both the history of mandalas and the work of the artist and volunteered to assist with the mandala construction.
The learning community enables incoming freshman considering majors in biological sciences and mathematics to engage in classes offering peer facilitation, supplemental instruction, active learning, problem-solving and social activities.
Interested in learning more about the College of Charleston First Year Experience Program? Visit the Learning Community Website at spinner.cofc.edu/fye/index.html
For more information on the Bryant Holsenbeck: Bottle Cap Mandala Installation visit: blogs.charleston.edu/friendsofthelibrary/exhibits2/bryant-holse…
For more information on the artist visit: bryantholsenbeck.com/index.html
Event Information:
Exhibit opening: Friday, October 22 – 5pm-7pm (Addlestone Library Rotunda)
*guests can also walk to the Halsey Institute for the Chris Jordan exhibit opening, Running the Numbers, presented by bluesphere: earth art expo.
Artist’s Lecture: Saturday, October 23 – 11am (Addlestone Library, Room 227)