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Using Digital Primary Sources For Teaching K-12, Cheryl Walters, Heather Leary, Anne Diekema, Sheri Haderlie
Using Digital Primary Sources For Teaching K-12, Cheryl Walters, Heather Leary, Anne Diekema, Sheri Haderlie
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
USU faculty and northern Utah K-12 teachers and library media specialists talk about how to identify and integrate digital primary sources such as photographs, letters, diaries, interviews and more into the curriculum to create engaging lessons. Digital resources such as the Library of Congress' American Memory, Mountain West Digital Library, and Utah Digital Newspapers, as well as tools for organizing the digital objects will be discussed.
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett Shelton
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett Shelton
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
This presentation was given at the 2009 Open Education Conference in Vancouver, BC. It shows how and why Utah State University chose to archive their OpenCourseWare. This was done in their Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons@USU. The presentation emphasizes the importance of the Open Education community to work with Librarians.
Teaching Information Literacy With Authentic Problems: Creating And Using An Online Module, Heather Leary, Wendy Holliday, Anne R. Diekema
Teaching Information Literacy With Authentic Problems: Creating And Using An Online Module, Heather Leary, Wendy Holliday, Anne R. Diekema
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
The American Library Association defines information literacy as a “set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information.” Students in an academic setting need to learn how to learn about all kinds of information. Committed to finding innovative ways to teach students information literacy skills, Utah State University’s Library Instruction Program created a free online course to teach these skills. This presentation will explain the course, why and how it was created, the problem based approach using authentic scenarios, the value it adds to library instruction, and how it can be integrated into a curriculum.
Podcasting Folklore, Randy Williams, Trevor Alvord, Heather Leary
Podcasting Folklore, Randy Williams, Trevor Alvord, Heather Leary
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
Presentation on podcasting folklore given at the Utah Library Association annual meeting in Sandy, Utah. The presentation gives a general background on podcasting and folklore, the process of creating podcasts and delivering the podcasts on the web.
Information Literacy: Finding And Using Information, January 2009, Heather Leary, Anne R. Diekema, Wendy Holliday
Information Literacy: Finding And Using Information, January 2009, Heather Leary, Anne R. Diekema, Wendy Holliday
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
This course is for learning information literacy skills, especially those related to using an academic library and the Internet for college-level research. The course uses a modified problem-based learning approach to give you an authentic and hands-on experience with the subject matter. The purpose of this course is to help you learn about information, the tools that can be used to find, evaluate, and share it, and to practice the skills you have learned.
It is designed for students and teachers in higher education, but can be modified easily for other learners. The course assumes basic Internet capabilities (browser navigation …