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Really Simple Syndication? Faculty and Residents' Adoption of RSS Feeds Following an Instruction Session
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Chambers, Thane, Campbell, Sandy, Storie, Dale
We hypothesized that offering instruction on RSS would be useful to health sciences faculty and medical residents, and would lead to increased use of RSS.
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Building an Instant Learning Community within the Classroom Using Mobile ARS: A Practical Overview
Download2011-05-25
Usova, Tatiana, Mandeville, Angie, Lacroix, Denis, Hwang, Christina
Students at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) are discovering how information literacy instruction can be used to build a learning community through mobile ARS technology. Librarians can engage students in providing an immediate forum in which they can interact with each other thereby...
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2011-05-25
Chatterley, Trish, Guirguis, Lisa, Hwang, Christina
All undergraduate Pharmacy students at the University of Alberta participated in a survey study that investigated students’ ownership and use of mobile technologies, as well as students’ willingness to use personal mobile devices during interactive classroom activities. This poster presents a...
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2017-10-15
Thorlakson, Jessica, Kung, Janice
As library sessions are typically one-shot sessions with limited time, it is difficult to gauge students’ comprehension of the subject matter. Since opportunities for post-session assessment is limited, there is a need to effectively evaluate students’ learning in class. Kahoot, an open-source,...
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2020-01-31
Wakaruk, Amanda, Gareau-Brennan, Céline
Poster presented at the Ontario Library Association Superconference 2020. Abstract: Canadian copyright law is intentionally flexible, which can create confusion, anxiety, and chill. Having observed these frustrations first-hand, Amanda Wakaruk and Céline Gareau-Brennan present a draft Copyright...
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2021-04-29
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the harmful effects of misinformation and disinformation, from issues around mask-wearing and physical distancing to vaccine hesitancy. Many academic librarians teach library users how to evaluate information. Checklists such as the CRAAP test continue to be...
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2022-06-08
Under the New Deal, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) initiated several white-collar projects alongside its better-known construction projects. Among them were projects to compile abstracts and indexes of historical newspaper files in several cities to support historical research. The first...