The USF Tampa Library is offering Spring workshops to researchers on a variety of topics. Ones of interest to faculty and graduate students in the College of Education are:
Click here for a full list of advanced workshops for students with links to register for them. Click herefor a full list of basic workshops for new students who need to learn the library system from scratch.
As you know, the Scholar Commonsis the USF library-sponsored digital repository for your research. What you might not know is that many publishers will allow you to post a version of your work in our repository so that you can provide unlimited reuse of your work in your classes and in distributing copies of it to colleagues. To determine if your publisher’s specific policy allows you to archive your pre-pub work you can search the following websites:
It is important to read your publications contracts with publishers and even, whenever possible, amend them to protect your rights. See Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine for information on regaining your rights. Where deposit of the full text is not possible due to copyright restrictions, a citation, abstract and descriptive information, including a link to an alternative location such as the journal site may be added.
Listening to Learn by Sharon Grover and Lizette D. Hannegan, connects audiobooks with K-12 curricula and demonstrates how this format can support national learning standards and literacy skills. Contents in this e-book include information about audiobooks and learning standards, the primary school, the intermediate grades, middle school, high school and technology supports for audiobook use.
The flipped classroom is a trend that involves delivering instruction online outside of class and moving active learning and “homework” into the classroom. Below is Salmon Khan’s famous TED talk about this innovative way to change the landscape of teaching and learning, “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education.”
The United States Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This e-book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown’s most visible effect–contact between students of different racial groups–has changed over the fifty years since the decision. Using both published and unpublished data on school enrollments from across the country, Charles Clotfelter uses measures of interracial contact, racial isolation, and segregation to chronicle the changes.
Traditional print dictionaries have always been publications created by lexicographers who mediate content as they examine new words or phrases, deciding whether they accept them or not. Wordnik offers definitions along with texts of news feeds, archived broadcasts, blog material, twitter posts and dozens of sources for the raw material of Wordnik citations. As Ann Eisenberg reports from an article in the New York Times, ” When you search for a word, Wordnik shows you the information it has found with no editorial tinkering. Instead, readers get the full linguistic Monty.”
Great Websites for Kids is a compilation of exemplary websites geared to children from birth to age 14. Suggested sites are evaluated by the Great Websites for Kids Committee using established selection criteria. The committee is made up of members of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. The recently renovated site offers a colorful, kid-friendly look and interactive social media enhancements.
Since the fall, The Office for Undergraduate Research is located on the second floor of the main Library, LIB 210. This location has allowed for additional programming and student services such as a comprehensive workshop series and computer lab. To learn more about the OUR, upcoming events, the USF Undergraduate Research Facebook page has the Spring 2012 workshop schedules as well as information about the April 18th Undergraduate Research and Arts Colloquium.
Interlibrary Loan will restrict services over Winter intersession from December 10th to January 8th. Loan requests will be limited to USF campus transfers only. Please schedule your requests accordingly. Feel free to contact your ILL office with any questions (813-974-2729 #5). UBorrow will still be available, but may be delayed due to cooperating library schedules and university closing times.
Google Scholar Citations provides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name, e.g., richard feynman.
Best of all, it’s quick to set up and simple to maintain – even if you have written hundreds of articles, and even if your name is shared by several different scholars. You can add groups of related articles, not just one article at a time; and your citation metrics are computed and updated automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to your work on the web. You can even choose to have your list of articles updated automatically – but, of course, you can also choose to review the updates yourself, or to manually update your articles at any time.
