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Comment on Zotero group bibliography assignment by CELT Blog

CELT Blog — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:15:14 +0000

[...] Zotero has clear relevance for annotated bibliographies and research projects and papers. Literature professor and ProfHacker blog author Brian Croxall assigns an Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography with clear and detailed instructions. He recommends assigning multiple due dates for various stages of an assignment. This way students can receive feedback during their research process, and they are discouraged from completing all their work in one night. Professor Anne-Marie Deitering also provides an excellent example of her Zotero group bibliography assignment. [...]

Comment on Many Thoughts about Wikipedia by mcsarah

mcsarah — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:07:47 +0000

Wow, this is awesome, thanks! Sorry that I couldn’t get to LOEX, all this is just my cup of tea. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on teaching, comics and autobiography by Tanya

Tanya — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:44:05 +0000

If I could go back I would have started here on day one: http://bit.ly/JxEFSo

Comment on DIY tutorials, library style by An article that… « info-fetishist

An article that… « info-fetishist — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:20:59 +0000

[...] who like continuity in academic writing, the pre-cursors to this article appeared in this space here and [...]

Comment on do this, if you get the chance by Val

Val — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:45:43 +0000

As a dedicated writer, I always find honest gems on your site, which makes me very happy I visited you!.

Comment on it is too much, let me sum up by Michael Faris

Michael Faris — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:34:51 +0000

I think you can substitute “researchers” for “writers” in Reid’s passage. And are current models doing that? Not with most of what I see (go to the library databases for the “research paper”). Research (and reading) is often decontextualized from writing processes.

I think you’re right that the concern about summarizing is more a concern about reading, and based on the idea that “if you can’t read, you can’t write.” But maybe in Bauerlein’s post, there’s also a lack of a sense of reading “for what purposes” and writing “for what purposes and to whom and in what contexts.”

Comment on Signs of Spring by Rick

Rick — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:57:41 +0000

Nice use of Storify. I love that site. I didn’t think of it as a way to track database outages. Might be good for feedback to vendors.

Comment on babies, bathwater, whatnot… by Weekend Reading: Backups - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Weekend Reading: Backups - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:29:24 +0000

[...] Deitering defends, in a qualified way, traditional conference presentations: Lectures can be a super-effective way to get a lot of ideas out there to a lot of people really [...]

Comment on Information Literacy and the FYE by Competência informacional | Carolina Fraga

Competência informacional | Carolina Fraga — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:52:18 +0000

[...] Nas minhas duas experiências pós-formatura em bibliotecas universitárias, tenho percebido uma esta preocupação em tornar o “calouro” mais independente, deixando focado nele a responsabilidade por obter novas informações. Neste cenário, o bibliotecário é aquele que ensina como buscar novas informações e proporciona novas fontes de informação; e o professor é aquele responsável por provocar a busca pelo conhecimento inerente à graduação escolhida. Na busca por melhor formação, encontrei este texto, que faz referência a vários outros: Information Literacy and the FYE. [...]

Comment on Know when to fold ‘em by Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:00:20 +0000

This is all kinds of awesome. I would love to see how this plays out in actual assignments / activities. “We talk about it as “a way to find out what the research is” and not more than that.” <—– yes. Otherwise it's "peer review = truth though of course only in classes like this."