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Enhancing Pedagogy Through Technology: Using Beyond Question and RefWorks to Engage Students in Information Literacy Across the Curriculum
No full textSince 2004, librarians at the Augustana College\u27s Thomas Tredway Library have successfully integrated information literacy instruction into the Augustana General Education Studies (AGES) program. Though they now teach information literacy skills to nearly all Augustana students, engaging students and promoting active learning can still be a challenge. Understanding that our students—most of whom are 18-22 years old and of the Millennial Generation—have grown up immersed in computer-based technologies, librarians Amanda Makula and Anne Earel sought to incorporate technological tools into their instruction when pedagogically valuable in order to create a more interactive learning environment.
When first-year students arrive at the library in the spring for their third Liberal Studies course, many believe – and often express! – that they have already received sufficient instruction in developing a research question, using library resources, and evaluating sources. How do we engage these students, showing them the difference between what they think they know and what they actually know, revealing the value of repeated practice, and connecting previous instruction with the assignment at hand? The answer can be simple: Ask questions. As students confront their uncertainty and/or inability to remember key components of earlier lessons, their resistance softens and they become more receptive.
Librarian Amanda Makula worked with Liberal Studies instructors to design an instruction session built around questions targeting library skills and delivered using an electronic “clicker” system called Beyond Question. The questions asked students to consider how they would accomplish specific objectives (e.g., retrieving a copy of a specific article). Each question was displayed to the class, and each student logged his/her response (e.g., A, B, or C) anonymously with hand-held remotes. The software graphed the responses, immediately showing how many students selected each answer. This hands-on, interactive, question-based model of instruction highlighted the gap between students’ perceived and actual knowledge of research skills while resulting in greater participation.
For many Augustana students, upper-level coursework in their chosen disciplines represents just the beginning of their experiences with advanced research; a majority of students will undertake postgraduate study (as of fall 2007, 57% of Augustana students who graduated in 1997 and 2002 had completed a master’s, Ph.D., or other professional degree). In upper-level instruction, then, we seek to create an environment that mimics the collaborative nature of post-graduate research while teaching crucial discipline-specific skills.
Librarian Anne Earel and anthropology professor Dr. Adam Kaul designed a “class bibliography” component for his senior seminar class that used the RefWorks bibliographic management program to store references found by and available to all students in the class. The class created a joint RefWorks account with a shared username and password; students knew each other’s topics and were encouraged to look for research materials to further not only their individual projects, but also those of their fellow classmates. Facilitated by RefWorks, students shared the responsibility of finding resources for their research, fostering a sense of collaboration that the students appreciated even as it prepared them for possible post-graduate study
Censorship and claims making regarding problem framing in 5 published RCT's on social anxiety (as identified by the author and Amanda Reiman, PhD).
No full text<p>Censorship and claims making regarding problem framing in 5 published
RCT's on social anxiety (as identified by the author and Amanda
Reiman, PhD).</p
Unveiling Melodies in Shadows: An Analysis of Swedish Female Composer Amanda Maier’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor
No full textAmanda Maier (1853−1894), a pioneering Swedish violinist and composer of the late nineteenth century, holds a unique place in music history as the first-ever female music director in Sweden. Despite her significant achievements, her compositions have remained relatively unknown. Therefore, the document aims to illuminate Amanda Maier's violin works, focusing on investigating her violin sonata in terms of violin performance and pedagogy. Specifically, the study offers insights into the performance techniques employed and provides other pertinent pedagogical suggestions for each movement. The document features an introductory chapter and a review of the historical context of Maier's life and the violin sonata. Subsequent chapters shift the focus to performance practice and pedagogical suggestions with theoretical analysis. One distinctive feature of the study is the inclusion of practice exercises composed originally by the author, tailored specifically to the techniques found in the sonata. These exercises aid practitioners in incorporating Maier's violin sonata into their program. The study assists violinists in diversifying their performance and teaching literature. It seeks to inspire renewed appreciation for Amanda Maier's artistic legacy because it is important to recognize the remarkable contributions of women in the classical music industry, and Amanda Maier, an underrepresented composer, exemplifies this. The document not only contributes to music research but also enhances pedagogical practices, fostering a more inclusive and equitable environment for female composers in the classical music world
Belonging: natural histories of place, identity and home
No full textCanongate's synopsis:
"Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest.
Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves.
Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson’s artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are."
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2023
Some of the reviews...
Outstanding - ROBERT MACFARLANE
Amanda Thomson’s new book manages to carve out a distinctive niche for itself . . . This is a passionate book and infused with a sense of rootedness - STUART KELLY, The Scotsman
In recent years rural landscapes have turned into battlegrounds, and nature writing has become increasingly polemical. Belonging is a quiet book of questions in a genre full of answers, but it is all the more powerful and beautiful for this - PATRICK GALBRAITH, TLS
One of the best things I have read in ages . . . Quiet and beautiful and powerful - ALYS FOWLER
Thomson writes of the natural in a way I have yet to encounter before. There is no real hoo-haa, no flowery description of which to speak yet somehow, I came away with that ache inside me — that renewed obsession with the world that is only borne of a very particular kind of writing — poetic, loving, raw . . . Like no other - KERRI Ní DOCHARTAIGH, Caught by the River
In strikingly original takes on Scottish history, environmentalism, Black feminist theory, artmaking, list-making, memory, and memoir, Thomson crafts a cadence that is as wise as it is vitally alive. - MARGOT DOUAIHY, author of Scorched Grac
Interview with Amanda Huron, author, Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
No full textIs modern capitalism too far advanced in the U.S. to create common property regimes? Are there models for what an Urban Commons might look like? Join us as we speak with Amanda Huron, author of Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). She’ll help us understand the theory and practice of Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives and the affordability, control, stability, and community they can provide to low-income communities and the people who live in them
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water - Live Event
No full text‘When we read and write, when we love our fellow creatures, when we walk on the beach, when we just listen and notice, we are not little cogs in the machine, but part of the remedy.’ These luminous words by Kathleen Jamie form part of the introduction to Antlers of Water, an outstanding collection of contemporary Scottish writing about nature and landscape.
The generosity of Jamie’s approach as editor of the collection goes beyond the stellar selection of contributors such as Amy Liptrot, Karine Polwart and Malachy Tallack: she also invokes the agency of readers to make a difference. ‘If, by reading, you are encouraged or confirmed in your love of the natural world, if you’re inspired simply to… look outside, then our job is done.’
In a discussion led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Making Climate Change Personal festival theme
Amanda Galvan Huynh, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAmanda Galvan Huynh (she/her) is a Xicana writer and educator from Texas. She is the author of a chapbook, Songs of Brujería (Big Lucks September 2019) and Co-Editor of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (The Operating System 2019). Her debut poetry collection, Where My Umbilical is Buried, is forthcoming in March 2023 with Sundress Publications. Amanda has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net. She was a 2016 AWP Intro Journal Project Award Winner, 2018 Best of the Net Winner, a finalist for the 2015 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry can be read in print and online journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, The Southampton Review, and others.
Amanda earned her MFA in Poetry at Old Dominion University, BA in English at the University of Texas at Arlington, and BA in Biology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Currently, she is a doctoral student in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Amanda Galvan Huynh, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAmanda Galvan Huynh is a Mexican American writer and educator from Texas. She is the author of Lotería (Sundress Publications, 2022), Songs of Brujería (Big Lucks, 2019) and co-editor for Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (Operating System, 2019). Her writing has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others. She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Old Dominion University, and she is a doctoral student in English at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Women, Work, More: Working Mothers & the Pressures of Motherhood — with Amanda Watson
No full textAmanda Watson is an author, lecturer, researcher, and mother of two. Her new book, The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety, is available from UBC Press. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, and has a focus on feminist teaching and learning. Amanda teaches and studies theories of labour, capitalism, motherhood, care, representation, and popular culture. She also writes opinions for newspapers and magazines. Her next book project explores the politics of the BirthStrike movement for climate justice. Resources:— The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in an Age of Anxiety: www.ubcpress.ca/the-juggling-mother— Amanda\u27s website: www.amandadwatson.com/— Amanda Watson & the birthstrike movement: www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropol…on-sshrc-grant.htm
“Is it like academia.edu?”: Faculty perceptions and usage of academic social networking sites and implications for librarians and institutional repositories
No full textThis paper explores the ways in which academic librarians can harness faculty familiarity with and curiosity about academic social networking sites (ASNS) in order to promote engagement with the institutional repository (IR). Highlighting significant similarities and differences between the IR and the popular ASNS Academia.edu – specifically in the areas of open access and discoverability, business model, user experience, and support – the paper then presents the key findings of a questionnaire administered to faculty at a single institution asking about their usage habits of ASNS and the IR and their motivation for engaging (or not) with each. Faculty who use ASNS identified accessing, reading, and sharing work as their primary motivations; those who do not use the sites attributed their nonuse to a lack of awareness and time. The top reported reasons for using the IR were downloading work and arranging for the deposit of student work, while skepticism and misconceptions about its benefits prevent others from interacting with the IR. The paper concludes by outlining ways in which librarians can work with faculty to create greater understanding of and engagement with the IR
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