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What Clues Tell You Something Is True? Empowering Students To Find Evidence, Amanda Izenstark Oct 2017

What Clues Tell You Something Is True? Empowering Students To Find Evidence, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation for the third regional Friends Education Conference: Discerning Truth in a Post-Fact World: A Friends Education Conference for Librarians and Educators, held October 13, 2017, in Providence, RI.


Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - August 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark Aug 2017

Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - August 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Instruction @ the URI Libraries

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Librarians As Design Partners: How We Helped Faculty Spotlight Il, Amanda Izenstark, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald Jun 2017

Librarians As Design Partners: How We Helped Faculty Spotlight Il, Amanda Izenstark, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald

Public Services Faculty Presentations

These slides accompanied a presentation at the New England Library Instruction Group 2017 Annual Program.

During the implementation of a new outcomes-based General Education program, librarians helped subject faculty highlight IL skills through a redesign of their existing assignments. In this session, see examples of how we reviewed course proposals and worked to ensure that students could meet those outcomes.


Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - May 2017, Mary Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark May 2017

Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - May 2017, Mary Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Instruction @ the URI Libraries

No abstract provided.


Information Literacy And General Education: Supporting Student Success, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark Mar 2017

Information Literacy And General Education: Supporting Student Success, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Presented at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2017, Providence, RI. Section of presentation entitled "Don't They Teach That in High School? Closing the K-16 Information Literacy Gap."

From conference abstract: Hear how librarians at one university successfully wove IL concepts into the fabric of the curriculum through an outcomes-based general education program.


Evaluate Everything, Amanda Izenstark Mar 2017

Evaluate Everything, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and speaker's notes for a panel presentation given at the University of Rhode Island on March 23, 2017. The presentation was part of a panel chaired by Professor Karen F. Stein (Department of English and Gender and Women's Studies Program) titled "Finding Reliable Information in a 'Post-Fact' World." Co-panelists were Professor Brian Krueger (Chair, Department of Political Science), Professor John Pantalone (Chair, Department of Journalism), Professor Andrée Rathemacher (University Libraries), and Professor Christine Zozula (Department of Sociology and Anthropology).

The panel was presented by the Coalition to Encourage Civic Engagement and was co-sponsored by the URI College of Arts …


Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - January 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark Jan 2017

Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - January 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Instruction @ the URI Libraries

No abstract provided.