Archive for 'Student Issues'
In Google They Trust
An interesting article swam through my Twitterstream recently that’s a perfect complement to the Project Information Literacy report that Barbara mentioned last week. It’s a recent publication of research by the Web Use Project led by Eszter Hargittai, a professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. The article, Trust Online: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on July 25th, 2010 under Google, Information Literacy, Student Issues.
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A Guide, or a Crutch?
We’re moving the subject guides on our library website from HTML pages into a wiki, which we hope will make them easier for us to update and customize. It’s been a nice opportunity to freshen the content, weed out the dead links, etc. We plan to encourage faculty across the college to contribute to the [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on July 11th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Student Issues.
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Making Conferencing Comfortable
Editor’s Note: ACRLog is hosting a team of ALA Emerging Leaders. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Next up in the series is a personal reflection on being mentored at the [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 12th, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Student Issues.
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Practice, Practice, Practice
The semester is drawing to a close at my college and students in the information literacy course that I’m teaching are deep into their work on their final projects. I’m taking a breath before the grading begins and already starting to reflect on the semester: what worked well, what didn’t, what I’ll tweak over the [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on May 10th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues.
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Not So Native?
You may have seen a few news items recently about the millennial generation and technology. Last month’s issue of Sociological Inquiry published an article by Eszter Hargittai describing differences in internet skills among college students. And an article in The Economist last week quotes several scholars who emphasize that digital natives are not necessarily as [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on March 14th, 2010 under Student Issues, Technology Issues.
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