Category: Tools of the Trade

Digital Learning Objects & Tools to Supplement Instruction

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteStudents and instructors may feel hard pressed to locate resources to replicate the learning experiences of physical classrooms as classes and course work move to an online environment. The USF Libraries has created a guide to capture these resources and provide instructors an access point to curated collections of digital learning objects and tools.

Mind Mapping

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Reading Time: 3 minutes*post by Barbara Lewis and LeEtta Schmidt Mind and concept mapping are processes by which ideas, knowledge, and problems are visually documented and organized. While there are differences between mind maps (single topic, center-out hierarchical structure, documenting ideas/brainstorming) and concepts maps (complex …Continue Reading

Evaluating and picking the right tool to help your research

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Reading Time: 2 minutesYour copyright librarian here.  While I find all aspects of copyright fascinating, of particular interest to me is how authors, writers, composers, etc., feel about copyright and the idea of intellectual property.  I’ve been gathering massive amounts of information on this topic …Continue Reading

Tools Intro – Tiki-Toki

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDigital storytelling, text analysis, data visualization, online exhibits, web scraping, etc. All of these are some of the ways in which digital humanists, digital social scientists, digital scientists – let’s just call them digital-ists – collect, process, analysis, and disseminate their research. …Continue Reading

Voyant Tools

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Reading Time: 3 minutesVoyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis platform designed to help scholars and students with both macroscopic and microscopic analysis of textual works. It was designed by Stefan Sinclair (McGill University) and Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) and is open-source …Continue Reading