Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Readability

EDUC 413 Reading in the Content areas

handout about Library resources and readability

Monday, October 26, 2009

EDUC 304

EWU and OSPI Reading Core Instruction Series

handout

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Collabortive Tools Workshop

November 12, 2009 10-11:30 am L23

Details Learn Slideshare, Delicious tagging, Blogger, PBWorks or Wetpiaint wiki and/or Voicethread with examples from K-12 teaching and teacher preparation classes.

You've heard about collaboration and sharing tools, give yourself some time to try them.

RSVP-- minimum 6 to hold the workshop, so share with your friends

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

ENGL 201 Keyword challenges

Information Fluency Keyword Challenges for database searching

More Challenges for Google Searches with times to beat

Keywords- vital words to find what you need
Intermediate words- brings the results closer to your focus
Words of little effect-small words or repetition
Stop words- not used in search engine

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

WLMA pre-conference Social Studies CBAs

The quick guides handout

Presentation at http://wlma.org/cbas

RefWorks- attachments

RefWorks allows you to add the fulltext article as an attachment.

Find the article in your databases
if it has the fulltext (usually a pdf file)- download the file - I put it on my desktop

Open Refworks
Export the citation from the database to RefWorks ( in your folder)

Open the citation- notice view or edit on the right hand side-- Click on edit

About the third line down is box that says BROWSE for attachment
Browse to your selected file on the desktop

Make sure you save reference

Now your fulltext article will be in the same area as your citation of the article