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Another cool idea from the MINITEX Reference Services Blog:
A group of teachers and librarians had students post their term papers to wikipedia. An interesting statistic said that Wikipedia entries are at the top of search engine results 27% of the time. It also allows collaboration with the external community.
Listen to the free, archived Educause Learning Initiative presentation on the project.
Showing posts with label Student Tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Student Tools. Show all posts
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Assignment Calculator
Ahhh, another "thing" I've been aware of for about a year but have never taken the time to look at. Too bad because it looks to be quite useful.
We get a lot of students -- both college and K-12 -- in the MHS Library and Archives doing research for History Day or some other class project, or for college assignments. The Assignment Calculator and the Research Project Calculator are both excellent tools for walking students through all the processes of writing a paper or doing some type of project.
Students often come into the Library having already looked at our Minnesota History Topics webpage and I think it would be an excellent page to put links to the two calculators, so I did.
I also think we could develop some good handouts and more webpages specifically for students based on the information provided for both the teachers and the students in the two calculators.
We get a lot of students -- both college and K-12 -- in the MHS Library and Archives doing research for History Day or some other class project, or for college assignments. The Assignment Calculator and the Research Project Calculator are both excellent tools for walking students through all the processes of writing a paper or doing some type of project.
Students often come into the Library having already looked at our Minnesota History Topics webpage and I think it would be an excellent page to put links to the two calculators, so I did.
I also think we could develop some good handouts and more webpages specifically for students based on the information provided for both the teachers and the students in the two calculators.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Bookmarks on Steroids
That's how MyStickies describes itself. Thing 13 is about customized home pages, calendars, list-making applications, personal organizers, online sticky notes, and PDF converters--a LOT of "things" here!
At work I use the MHS in-house library page as my homepage, because I'm constantly checking something in the MnPALS catalog, in the death certificates index, in Minnesota Place Names, on Ancestry.com, etc. It is a customized homepage with many of the things I use most often! I wonder, though, if we could include some widgets on it that would make it more useful for those of us who use it as our work hompage?
At home I use Google as my homepage. About six months ago I had played with iGoogle and decided not to use it. Personally, I find those customized homepages more of a distraction than a help. But I tried iGoogle again, and also tried out MyYahoo. This time I tried to pick only work-related widgets attempting to make the page more useful (I admit, though, to including those eyes that follow your cursor around!). There were some things that I liked better about MyYahoo and some thing I liked better about iGoogle. For the time being, I've made my iGoogle page my homepage. We'll see how long it lasts!
Of the other "things," the most useful, for me, for work, would be the PDF converters. There have been so many times I wished I could turn a PDF into a Word document, but didn't know it was possible! And, we've just started using our photocopy machine to scan documents and turn them into PDFs. I can see the value of sometimes then turning those PDFs into Word documents. What a great find--thanks!
And thanks for the link to the Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student's or Professor's Productivity. (I passed that one on to my niece.) Some interesting things there for those of us who work with students.
At work I use the MHS in-house library page as my homepage, because I'm constantly checking something in the MnPALS catalog, in the death certificates index, in Minnesota Place Names, on Ancestry.com, etc. It is a customized homepage with many of the things I use most often! I wonder, though, if we could include some widgets on it that would make it more useful for those of us who use it as our work hompage?
At home I use Google as my homepage. About six months ago I had played with iGoogle and decided not to use it. Personally, I find those customized homepages more of a distraction than a help. But I tried iGoogle again, and also tried out MyYahoo. This time I tried to pick only work-related widgets attempting to make the page more useful (I admit, though, to including those eyes that follow your cursor around!). There were some things that I liked better about MyYahoo and some thing I liked better about iGoogle. For the time being, I've made my iGoogle page my homepage. We'll see how long it lasts!
Of the other "things," the most useful, for me, for work, would be the PDF converters. There have been so many times I wished I could turn a PDF into a Word document, but didn't know it was possible! And, we've just started using our photocopy machine to scan documents and turn them into PDFs. I can see the value of sometimes then turning those PDFs into Word documents. What a great find--thanks!
And thanks for the link to the Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student's or Professor's Productivity. (I passed that one on to my niece.) Some interesting things there for those of us who work with students.
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