Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Comprehensive Guide To Saving Images For The Web by Joshua Johnson
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TLT Group FridayLive! Clickers as Tools for Engagement: Removing "Cloaks of Invisibility"
Friday, March 5th 2010
2 pm (EST) / 1 pm (CST)
Join Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University, Holly Bender, Iowa State University, and Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group
Clickers are small, handheld devices that instructors can use to quickly poll their students and aggregate their responses to multiple-choice questions about course content. In an interview with journalist John Merrow, Carnegie Foundation president Lee Shulman stated that "anonymity and invisibility" are the "great enem[ies] of learning" and described the use of clickers as one way to remove "the cloak of invisibility" from students.**In this FridayLive! session, we'll take a look at some ways instructors in a variety of disciplines have used clickers to engage their students with course content by leveraging the individual student accountability that clickers provide. We'll discuss using clickers to warm students up for great discussions, to create a "time for telling" when students are eager to learn answers to the questions we ask them, to structure small-group learning activities, to connect course material with students' personal experiences, and more. Bring your questions about how clickers and similar technologies can transform classroom dynamics in ways that excite students about learning.
Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: 3rd Edition For Web Searchers Who Want to Go “Beyond Google”
By RobColding (not verified) - Posted on 26 January 2010
The revised edition covers strategies and tools for searching all major areas of internet content, emphasizing the effective use of search engines, directories, portals, and social networks. Readers with little to moderate searching experience appreciate the author’s clear and helpful style, while seasoned searchers discover new ideas, techniques, and resources.
“This book is written as a guide for researchers, students, writers, librarians, teachers, and others, covering what serious users need to know to take full advantage of internet tools and resources,” the author said. “It assumes that you already know the basics, you frequently use the internet, and you know how to use your browser. … my aim is to provide a lot that is new and useful.”
The book’s chapters are:
1. Basics for the Serious Searcher
2. Directories and Portals
3. Search Engines: The Basics
4. Search Engines: The Specifics
5. Discussion Groups, Forums, Newsgroups, and Their Relatives
6. An Internet Reference Shelf
7. Sights and Sounds: Finding Images, Audio, and Video
8. News Resources
9. Finding Products Online
10. Your Own Place on the Web: Participating and Publishing
“To be really good at searching means keeping up with all the changes,” said Marydee Ojala, editor of ONLINE Magazine. “No one is better qualified to help you do this than Ran Hock. … His fierce determination to spread his knowledge of search techniques resulted in this book. His understanding of the fluidity of internet research resulted in a third edition.”
The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook, Third Edition covers a wide range of topics and resources relevant to web searching, including copyright and fair use, shortcuts, mashups, desktop search programs, podcasts, blogs, metasearch engines, and newsgroups. It provides in-depth guidance on using leading search engines Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask.com, and introduces lesser known tools designed to find information in specific disciplines.
The book also features numerous expert tips, 60-plus explanatory figures and tables, and an extensive glossary of search terminology. As a reader bonus, The Extreme Searcher’s Web Page features links to more than 250 recommended resources, author updates, and more.
Getting the Most from WorldCat in 2010: Subject Searching (Ideas, Concepts, & Strategies)
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