Using Classroom Assignments to Further Wider Educational Goals and Research
Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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On September 25th, 2009 the EDC hosted a Teaching Roundtable discussion with Professor Jim Davies from Carleton’s Department of Cognitive Science. The topic was fitfully titled “Don’t Waste Student Work: Using Classroom Assignments to Further Wider Educational Goals and Research.”
Dr. Davies pointed out that many of the assignments that are given to students have no life beyond completion. How Professors can combat this is by providing students with assignments that have a greater purpose to fulfill, like involving an end customer, which can provide additional motivation to complete the assignment and to put their best work forward.
Professors could consider having students do assignments that contribute to the Professors’ own research. (i.e., obtaining a series of articles or journals on a topic that need to be summarized and have students do this as part of the assignment.) Students would see value in this because not only are they learning relevant material, but their name could potentially be mentioned in an acknowledgment or contributors note in an actual publication.
Dr. Davies provided several examples that could be integrated into any discipline, including using Article Summaries or Wikibooks as a way to provide longterm use for student assignments, Supermemo programs where students can design their own library of skill testing questions on topics related to their discipline, and many others.
If you have any questions regarding this discussion, or you would like to get more information, please contact Jim Davies at jim@jimdavies.org, or visit his website. You can also contact us with questions by commenting on this blog post, Phoning 613-520 4433, or Emailing edc@carleton.ca.
Teaching with Technology Roundtable
Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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Please join Professor Peter Andree from the Department of Political Science along with Professor Graham Smart from SLALS and the EDC for October’s Teaching Roundtable.
When: Friday, October 30 from 11:30-1:00pm
Where: 422 Dunton Tower
Community Service Learning (CSL) activities integrated into courses can take a variety of forms, from a field-trip into the community to volunteer with a stream clean-up or church supper, followed by a short assignment designed to encourage reflection on that experience, to longer-term community-based research projects that can serve as the basis of most of the course work. This workshop will explore the pros and cons of CSL, followed by a discussion of the nuts and bolts of integrating CSL into courses from the instructor’s point of view, drawing on the experience of professors who have used these techniques at Carleton.
A light lunch will be provided.
Please register here to attend this event.
Learn about the Knowledge Ontario project by attending a CU Library information session
Posted on October 13, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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Carleton has gained access to an extensive collection of online databases through our participation in the Knowledge Ontario project. The resources are funded by the Ontario Government which provides access to all Ontarians through the province’s publicly funded libraries.
During the week of November 2 to 6, Carleton University Library will feature a few of these valuable resources. Faculty, students and alumni are invited to attend two information sessions on KO resources on Wednesday, November 4:
Career Cruising: A Guided Tour
10:30am – noon, 1501 CTTC Building
If you would like to learn about the functions and features of this comprehensive career exploration web tool and how it can make your career research more efficient and effective, then sign up for this interactive workshop with Career Services. The workshop will be facilitated by an experienced CDCE Career Counsellor and a former teacher (and career counselling intern) who taught the Careers Course to secondary school students in the Ottawa Carleton School Board.
Academic OneFile, CPI.Q and Virtual Reference Library – A Demonstration
2-3pm, Room 360K, MacOdrum Library
A representative from Gale Cengage will visit the Library to demonstrate Gale’s new PowerSearch 2.0. Three KO databases will be showcased:
Academic OneFile – Indexes over 60 million articles from over 11,000 journal titles with coverage in current events, general sciences, social sciences and humanities. Many of the articles are available in full-text.
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index Full Text) – Contains citations to essays, articles, short stories, and book reviews in more than 1,200 English and French language journals published in, or providing, significant coverage of Canada. All topics are covered. Approximately 550 of the journals are provided in full-text.
Virtual Reference Library – KO has licensed over 30 reference library titles in ebook format.
Faculty, students and alumni who visit the Library from November 2 to 6 or attend the Career Cruising workshop will have the chance to enter a quiz contest and win one of two $25 CU Bookstore gift certificates.
For information about Knowledge Ontario, please visit their web site at www.knowledgeontario.ca. For questions about Carleton’s participation in Knowledge Ontario, please contact Anita Hui, Collection Development and Gifts or call 520-2600, ext. 8372.
Teaching with Technology Roundtable
Posted on September 22, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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Please join Professor Jim Davies from the Department of Cognitive Science and the EDC for this month’s Teaching Roundtable.
When: Friday, September 25, from noon to 1 p.m.
Where: 422 Dunton Tower
Every year college and graduate students across North America work on millions of assignments, and instructors and teaching assistants spend millions of hours grading them. These assignments help the students learn, but do no good for anybody else. In his talk Dr. Davies will describe several kinds of assignments he has developed that he believes 1) facilitate learning, 2) are particularly motivating, and 3) contribute to the greater educational and research communities.
Any discipline can make use of the methods Dr. Davies will describe.
A light lunch will be provided.
Please click here to register.
Open Access (OA) Initiatives in Scholarly Communication
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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Attend a lecture on open access (OA) initiatives in scholarly communication.
Carleton University Library invites you to attend a lecture by Andrew Waller on open access (OA) initiatives. Mr. Waller is the serials librarian in the Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary
Date: Monday, May 25, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
(Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served at 8:30 a.m.)
Place: Library Staff lounge (Room 153), Carleton University Library
Over the past few years, staff at the Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary have been increasingly engaged in activities supporting open access (OA). These activities include installing and populating an institutional repository, now the second largest university repository in Canada; establishing an open access authors fund, which is designed to pay some submission fees for University of Calgary authors who publish in open access journals that charge such fees; and, most recently, creating a OA mandate for academic staff (librarians, archivists, and curators).
Mr. Waller will be discussing the background and implementation of open access projects at the university as well as the challenges associated with these initiatives.
Andrew Waller regularly writes and speaks on topics such as open access, licensing, e-journals, the effects of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and similar legislation on Canadian libraries and researchers, electronic resource management systems, and systematic downloading. He is the convener of the Canadian Library Association Collection Development and Management Interest Group, the Licensing & Access editor for the journal The Serials Librarian, and is part of the team that produces the OA Librarian blog.
For questions about this event, please contact Anita Hui, Head of Collection Development, Carleton University Library, at anita_hui@carleton.ca.
Google Street View – Ottawa
Posted on March 25, 2009 by Patrick
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Google Street View is a popular feature in Google Maps and Google Earth that allows users to view panoramic pictures taken from street level of many cities in the United State, Europe and parts of Asia.
A great example of Street View is its use in Washington DC. Using it you can walk/drive the streets of the US capital and explore the exterior architecture of monuments, landscaping as get a scope of the city.
Google just recently announced plans to expand the feature to Canadian cities, including Ottawa.
Privacy groups have concerns with Google Street View as images of people are often included, occasionally in unflattering or compromising situations. Google is addressing some of these concerns by removing pictures (by request) and by blurring faces and license plates of cars.
So how could Google Street View can be used in teaching and learning? Some ideas:
1) It could be used as part of an assignment; i.e. travel to a city and create a virtual field trip for classmates.
2) It can be used to build community; particularly when teaching a class with new Canadians and/or ESL learners i.e. encourage students to send you a link to the street view of their community, favorite restaurant, or have them show their community/home town in class.
3) A source for learning about city planning, landscaping, spatial relationships, and architecture.
4) Foster a discussion on privacy. Should Google be allow to do what it is doing? What are the concerns?
5) Use it to foster discussions around social issues and equity i.e. Locations for low income housing in relation to city services.
6) Tour historical areas, i.e. walk the hot spots of the French revolution in Paris.
Teaching with Technology Roundtable: Blogging – Update
Posted on March 19, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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Please join Lois Frankel from the School of Industrial Design and the EDC for this month’s Teaching with Technology Roundtable, on Friday, March 20, from noon to 1 p.m. in 422 Dunton.
Professor Lois Frankel will show examples of students’ use of blogs as part of weekly assignments in a studio course. She will share the successes and the challenges that she and her students have encountered and facilitate a discussion about opportunities for improvement.
This session will be of interest to anyone who is using blogs or thinking of using blogs in their courses.
Please register to attend this event in person at http://edc.carleton.ca/teachingwithtechnolog.
If you are unable to be on Carleton’s campus at this time join us via a free live online Elluminate session. This session will also be recorded so please check back for information on how to access the recording.
Please note that you do not need a logon or password to join the online session, you just need to enter your name in the “Login Name” area and click “Log In”.
Web of Knowledge Databases at Carleton’s Library
Posted on March 16, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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The Carleton University Library will be holding an information session for faculty, students and staff on the ISI Web of Knowledge suite of databases. These databases can be searched separately or together and the library’s subscription includes:
- Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- Zoological Record
- Journal Citation Reports
- Derwent Innovations Index (patents)
Date: Thursday March 19, 2009
Place: Room 102, MacOdrum Library
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Presenter: Julia Hawkes, Thomson Reuters (publisher of the Web of Knowledge databases)
For questions about this database, please contact Anita Hui, Head of Collection Development, Carleton University Library, at anita_hui@carleton.ca.
Teaching with Technology Roundtable
Posted on March 13, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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Please join Lois Frankel from the School of Industrial Design and the EDC for this month’s Teaching with Technology Roundtable, on Friday, March 20, from noon to 1 p.m. in 422 Dunton.
Professor Lois Frankel will show examples of students’ use of blogs as part of weekly assignments in a studio course. She will share the successes and the challenges that she and her students have encountered and facilitate a discussion about opportunities for improvement.
This session will be of interest to anyone who is using blogs or thinking of using blogs in their courses.
Please register to attend this event at http://edc.carleton.ca/teachingwithtechnolog.
If you are unable to be on Carleton’s campus at this time we will be making this session available via an online Elluminate session and as a recording after. Please check back for the online event information and the recording posting.
EOSET 2009: Call for Proposals reminder
Posted on March 12, 2009 by Ryan Kuhne
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Just a reminder that the deadline for the Call for Proposals for the May 22/09 EOSET conference – the Eastern Ontario Symposium for Educational Technology – is Friday, March 13. UOIT is the host of this year’s conference.
If you not able to present, we hope you’ll be able to attend. The conference fees are very reasonable – the conference is just $30 and for those looking for accommodation, a two bedroom residence suite is $56.
For more information about the conference or submitting proposals, go to the website at http://uoit.ca/eoset or see our previous post.
