ITS Newsletter Winter 2001

contents:
Library Announces New Statewide Service | Special Programs on the Technology Road
Research & the Web: Life in the Electronic Classroom | Advice from Student Computer Services
A Reflection: You Can't Go Home Again | Shortcuts for Windows
What's DAVE all about? | Tech News

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Social Science Research and the Web:
A Hands-On Workshop and Discussion for Faculty
and Life in the Electronic Classroom
by Marilyn R. Pukkila

RESEARCH:


Here is an opportunity to explore research and the Web with your Colleagues in the new Davis Educational Foundation Electronic-Research Classroom in Miller Library. While the focus will be the social sciences, any interested faculty are welcome, whatever your discipline. Marilyn R. Pukkila will lead you through some of the most useful Web resources at Colby and generate discussion on issues of content, pedagogy, and ethical use of material on the Web. This workshop will be limited to 25 participants. When you contact Marilyn to sign up for the workshop, you can indicate specific topics you would like to cover -- Web browsers? Journal indexes? Electronic journals? Library catalogs? Specific research tools (Lexis/Nexis, PsychInfo, JStore periodicals,)? the presentation can be tailored to meet the requests of the particpants. Please indicate your interest by contacting Marilyn at mrpukkil@colby.edu or at X3901.

ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES:


Librarians, ITS instructors, and faculty from all four divisions have found the Davis Educational Foundation Electronic-Research Classroom in Miller Library to be a splendid setting to teach research methods, statistical packages, revision of creative writing, information literacy, critical thinking skills, and Web exploration to students. We offered 35 instruction sessions in the first two months of the semester, as well as fifteen First Year orientation sessions and several workshops and training sessions. The Librarians are planning a series of clinics focused on specific sources (Lexis-Nexis, Web browsing, journal indexes) or subject areas (see the article on "Social Science Research and the Web: A Hands-On Workshop for Faculty" in this issue). Students are also glad to have another computer lab on campus, particularly one so conveniently located for research in Miller Library.

Faculty, if any of your courses have a research component, it's not too late to schedule a library instruction session for your students to give them hands-on experience in the latest techniques. You could also schedule the room to teach your own session there. Visit the Web page (www.colby.edu/library/research/instruction/davis.shtml) to review the policies and capacities of the Classroom, and then contact Marilyn R. Pukkila (mrpukkil@colby.edu; X3901) to schedule a session.

 

 

 
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