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Ethos And Credibility : Collaborating To Develop Students’ Critical Information Literacy, Richard H. Hannon, April D. Cunningham

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

Librarians and professors know that students who search online believe they can identify good sources based on surface credibility. But students make bad decisions if they apply criteria out of alignment with academic values. This presentation outlines an innovative merger of traditional Rhetoric and Information Literacy to guide students’ research decisions. The collaboration between a librarian and a Composition instructor illustrates librarians’ central role in deepening students' academic values. Participants will take away a new approach to developing students’ evaluative skills that draws on the philosophical principles of “good reasons” and ethos.

Wikipedia, Ipods, And Chickens: An Active Learning Exercise To Teach Evaluation Of Information, Latisha Reynolds, Anna Marie Johnson

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

Librarians at the University of Louisville developed an evaluation of information exercise that is completely interactive. Students learn evaluation skills by participating in a small-group exercise, after which, the groups teach their classmates what they have learned.

Each small-group is assigned a different publication to evaluate such as a book, a website, a scholarly article, magazine or newspaper. They also have questions to answer in order to evaluate each source. After they evaluate the sources, each group chooses a student to present the information in front of the class.

The librarian acts as a facilitator to guide the students and …

Instruction 2.0: Engaging Students And Faculty Through Course Wikis, Kristine Esch Kasbohm, Hazel A. Mcclure

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

Merriam-Webster online defines a "wiki" as "a Web site that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections". Librarians at Canisius College have used a variety of web-based collaborative resources such as wikis, Google applications, and Angel course management software to improve student engagement and faculty interest in information literacy instruction. These collaborative resources offer instructional support beyond the one-shot session in the library. They also provide an avenue for librarians to interact with students and faculty.

We have used wikis in several different ways. When students do not completely understand something discussed in the library session, or when they …

Reduce > Reuse > Recycle: Teaching Acrl’S 5th Information Literacy Competency Standard, Catherine Cardwell, Amy F. Fyn, Carol Singer

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

For an online credit-bearing course, a team at Bowling Green State University Libraries designed a module around ACRL's Standard Five in order to help students navigate the complexities of using information ethically and legally. Module contents, including readings, discussion questions, assessments and quizzes, may be used as a whole or in pieces as needed. Module readings and activities work equally well online or in the classroom setting and can be easily modified for one-shot library sessions or as part of a larger conversation on academic honesty and correct citing of sources.

Lighting The Path To Collections Through Collaboration, Brena Smith, Alison Armstrong

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

No abstract provided.

Problem-Based Learning Meets Web 2.0: Using A Youtube Video To Teach Information Literacy In A Problem-Based Learning Format, Frances A. May, Annie Downey

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

We are often taught to analyze verbal and written communication, but the analysis of visual communication, (for example, in advertising, art, media, and film,) is often neglected or ignored. This presentation is intended to show attendees the ways in which pictures and videos affect them, and how to analyze and decode images in order to construct meaning from the visuals. They can then pass this information on to their students.

Patricia Senn Breivik argues that information literacy should incorporate multiple types of literacy, including computer, library, media, network, and visual literacy (2005). In an era of massive exposure to visual …

Using Web 2.0 Tools Such As Google Apps In Library Instruction Sessions With Non-Traditional Students, Alyssa Martin, Jana Slay, Kent Snowden

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

Much has been written about traditional undergraduate students and their familiarity with Web 2.0 tools. But how “tech savvy” are non-traditional students? How can tools such as Google Apps be used in library instruction with these students?

Troy University Montgomery Campus serves an especially diverse student body; roughly two-thirds are adult, non-traditional students (average age of 28). Librarians on this campus surveyed students in library instruction classes to find out their knowledge and use of Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, image and video sharing, collaborative authoring tools, communication tools, social games/spaces and blogs. Survey results show that many …

Help Us Help Them: Instruction Training For Lis Students And New Librarians, Amanda Click, Claire Walker

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

The online tutorial has emerged as a ubiquitous representation of information literacy (IL) instruction and often is the visible face of IL programs. Tutorials have been evaluated primarily in relation to criteria of instruction. This presentation asks new questions: Does the tutorial reflect the library's goals and mission for information literacy? Does it do what we say we will do in our mission? The presentation details the process and provides graphic results of the in-depth evaluation of one library’s mission and tutorial. The audience will be asked to participate in an analysis of a library’s mission statement and online tutorial. …

Looking Through The Class And What Alice Found There: A Frustrated Analysis Of Law School Admissions Policies And Practices., Robert Steinbuch

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter, No. 22, December 2011, Jan Urban

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter

Contents: Terminology and Genetic Types of Boulder Caves -- New Study on the Abrasion Caves near Auckland (New Zealand) -- Root Stalagmite Discovery No. 4 in Austria -- Karst and Pseudokarst at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA -- Second International Conference on Granite Caves, Sweden, 2011 -- Good News! -- 12th International Symposium on Pseudokarst, 11-14 September 2012, Tui, Galicia, Spain -- Sandstone Landscapes III, 25-28 April 2012, Stolowe Mountains National Park, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland -- Karl Mais, 1940-2012 -- Editorial Note

Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps In The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847., Javier Ernesto Sanchez

Latin American Studies ETDs

This thesis presents a reappraisal of the performance of the Mexican general officer corps during the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847. Often negatively libeled, Mexicos defeat is often attributed in no small part to the moral shortcomings of the generals who led her armies. By a detailed analysis of their background, motivations, and military careers, a more accurate perspective regarding the Mexican general officer corps' performance during the war can be obtained by the reader. It is the argument of this thesis that the operational tactics and organizational weakness of the Army's High Command sufficiently account for the failures of the generals …

Use Of The Health Belief Model To Assess Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Perceptions, And Practices Of Saudi Students Studying In The U.S., Najla Khateeb

All Theses

Many factors influence hygiene but those that have the greatest impact vary widely across population groups. Our aim was to characterize hand hygiene practices of Saudi students studying in the U.S. by completing two objectives: (1) assess hand hygiene knowledge, perceptions, and practices of Saudi students studying in the U.S. and (2) determine the relationship among knowledge, perceptions, and practices.
A modified version of the Health Belief Model was the theoretical framework to characterize hand hygiene practices. A web-based instrument was posted to the ¬DSaudis Studying in USAÁÂ Facebook page. The instrument was prepared in English then translated into Arabic. …

The Changing Geography And Fortunes Of Dublin Haute Cuisine Restaurants, 1958-2008, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Articles

This paper considers the changing geography and fortunes of Dublin’s haute cuisine restaurants over the last half century, placing them within both a national and international context. Ireland’s place within the global story of food is discussed, and the paper illustrates links between Dublin and European and global trends. The paper points out that Dublin in the 1950s could be seen as the gastronomic capital of the British Isles. The leading restaurateurs are briefly profiled, and the decline, stagnation, and gradual re-birth of Dublin’s haute cuisine restaurants over the 1958-2008 period is charted and discussed. The paper combines data from …

Testing Hypotheses Of The Demographic Transition In San Borja, Bolivia, Kristin Snopkowski

Anthropology ETDs

Understanding the demographic transition, a trend in which fertility drops after a period of population growth, has been an important area of anthropological and demographic research. This dissertation seeks to understand fertility change by testing five models that have been presented in the literature. The predictions that are unique to each hypothesis are tested in San Borja, Bolivia, a community currently undergoing a fertility transition. Low modern fertility seems counter-intuitive given the increase of individual wealth, but there have not been sufficient tests to lead to an understanding of why this occurs. Informational hypotheses explain fertility transition as a change …

Flannery O'Connor: Revelations Of The Displaced Soul, Rose M. Tomasi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Flannery O'Connor's thematic paradigm incorporates spiritual overtones, irony and black comedy into her works. The characters appear to possess displaced souls that require some type of spiritual and moral awareness through a shocking intervention. This paper provides an analysis of the introspective development that occurs within the characters; and I will examine the process in which the characters seem to come to shocking revelations about their flawed view of life. Furthermore, an investigation of the protagonist's journey from selfishness to self-awareness will demonstrate the human flaws and weakness in their lives. The circumstances surrounding these outcomes is tragic, yet they …

Slaves, Trains, And Missionaries: British Moral Imperialism And The Development Of Precolonial East Africa, 1873-1901, Daniel Woulfin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation explores the role of moral imperialism in the late nineteenth century expansion of the British Empire using East Africa as a case study. Moral imperialism, the ideology that argued that the British had a moral duty to "civilize, "Christianize, "uplift, and economically "develop" non-Europeans and their territories, has not been taken as seriously by historians as other factors for British expansion, namely economic arguments and strategic geopolitics by British officials. By applying Alan Lester's model of three categories of colonial discourse in nineteenth century South Africa: governmentality, humanitarianism, and settler capitalism to East Africa between 1873 and 1901, …

Cloud-Resolving Modeling Of Aerosol Indirect Effects In Idealized Radiative-Convective Equilibrium With Interactive And Fixed Sea Surface Temperature, Cheng-En Yang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This study aims to evaluate the impact of aerosol indirect effects (AIEs) on climate variations over tropical oceans through a three-dimensional cloud-resolving model, the System for Atmospheric Modeling, in idealized radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE). In RCE framework, the interactions among radiation, convection and surface fluxes are explicitly included while the effects of the large-scale circulation on convection are ignored. The AIEs on RCE are modeled by varying the number concentration of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), served as a proxy for the aerosol amount in the environment, over a wide range starting from pristine maritime (50 cm-3) to polluted (1000 cm-3) conditions. …

Front Matter, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Status Of Glossy And White-Faced Ibises In Tennessee, Richard L. Knight

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

2011 Tennessee Fall Bird Counts, Ron Hoff

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Tos Fall Symposium 2011 Abstracts, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

The Fall Season, Richard L. Knight, Dick D. Preston, Phillip D. Casteel, Richard P. Lewis

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Minutes Of Board Of Directors 2011 Fall Meeting, Cyndi Routledge

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Contents, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2011, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Managing Undocumented Students: Do Undocumented Students Hinder Student Performance?, Gregory Hill, Daniel P. Hawes

Public Policy and Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations

Illegal immigration is a salient topic for policy makers and for local units of government who are responsible for implementing policies. One particularly relevant policy topic is to what extent undocumented students affect performance in public schools, and if undocumented students do have an impact on performance, what can be done about it? Using Texas as a case study, this analysis finds that, surprisingly, undocumented students have only a marginal effect on the overall performance on standardized exams. Among Latinos, however, there is a statistically negative effect. Furthermore, evidence suggests that managerial skills can mitigate those negative effects.

Cave Talk, December 2011, Diane Thompson

Cave Talk

Contents: From the Desk of the President -- International Park World Publication -- Free Webinars -- NCA 2012 Convention -- Administrative Notes

Mexico Through The Russian Gaze: Olga Costa In Guanajuato, Yulia Stakhnevich

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The Comment, December 1, 2011, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Genealib Archive 2011-12, Genealib

GENEALIB Archive

No abstract provided.