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Entries from February 2009

Improving Student Research Competence

February 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Yesterday I attended the first of three online sessions offered by the Teaching, Learning and Technology Group in cooperation with ACRL on “Collaboration for Information Literacy: Faculty Learning Communities and other Collaborative Approaches to Support and Improve Undergraduate Information Literacy.”  This year, I am fortunate to have been a participant in OCU’s Faculty Learning Community [...]

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Tags: Teaching and Learning

Online Citation Management

February 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I have previously mentioned my favorite personal bibliography/citation management tool, Zotero.  Of course, one of its main drawbacks is that its user interface is a Firefox Plugin, which means only those of us who have adopted the open source browser can make use of Zotero.
I recently became aware of some other useful tools that exist [...]

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Tags: Technology