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It's All In The Family: Keynote Address To The International Association For Visual Literacy, Renee Hobbs

Renee Hobbs

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News Literacy: What Works And What Doesn't, Renee Hobbs

Renee Hobbs

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Social Media Tools And The Policies Associated With Them, Anne M. Arendt

Anne M Arendt

This paper summarizes the social media and Web 2.0 field in regard to policies from the perspective of a Web resource director. The paper is 50 pages and was created specifically for the Best Practices in Policy Management Conference sponsored by the UVU Policy Office on November 6, 2009.

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Using Open Educational Resources In The Basic Composition Classroom, Anne M. Arendt

Anne M Arendt

A 90 minute presentation was given in a lab setting for the TYCA West Conference (http://tycawest.org/) entitled Point and Counterpoint Converging Fugues within Composition and Community. This is the document that was given during this presentation.

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Google Tools: Creative Options For Faculty And Students, Sandie Waters, Suzy Cox

Sandie H Waters

We begin our presentation with an overview of Google Tools and the benefits of using them in your classroom. We will discuss methods to increase student access to information, decrease workloads, and create collaborative opportunities. With the current economic times, budgets are feeling the strain, as are teachers and faculty in Higher Education settings. With web 2.0 tools, specifically Google Tools, we are empowered to use the technology to decrease our budgets, create a paperless environment, and introduce collaborative learning environments into our curriculum.

Our research serves to legitimize teachers in order to empower them to encourage our digital natives …

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