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Beyond Google Docs: Utilizing Video and Library Resources to Create Engaging Virtual Escape Rooms
No full textCreating a virtual escape room can be as easy as putting together a Google form. Crafting an engaging activity is trickier. By utilizing library resources to craft puzzles and filming short videos to foster a narrative, virtual escape rooms can be fun learning resources that teach about almost any subject. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I created a virtual escape room to help students learn about library resources. The narrative of the escape room focuses on a Bigfoot spotted roaming the library. To make the activity more engaging, several short videos were filmed to foster the narrative. Most escape room puzzles revolve around students utilizing library resources to complete objectives. The interactive nature of databases and other library resources make them an excellent tool for virtual escape rooms. Although filming video can be intimidating, even simple videos add quite a bit to narratives. This poster will help attendees learn how they can incorporate these resources into their own activities
Beyond Google Docs: Utilizing Video and Library Resources to Create Engaging Virtual Escape Rooms
Get PDFCreating a virtual escape room can be as easy as putting together a Google form. Crafting an engaging activity is trickier. By utilizing library resources to craft puzzles and filming short videos to foster a narrative, virtual escape rooms can be fun learning resources that teach about almost any subject. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I created a virtual escape room to help students learn about library resources. The narrative of the escape room focuses on a Bigfoot spotted roaming the library. To make the activity more engaging, several short videos were filmed to foster the narrative. Most escape room puzzles revolve around students utilizing library resources to complete objectives. The interactive nature of databases and other library resources make them an excellent tool for virtual escape rooms. Although filming video can be intimidating, even simple videos add quite a bit to narratives. This poster will help attendees learn how they can incorporate these resources into their own activities
Color Historic Buffalo
Get PDFA coloring book of historic buildings in Buffalo New York. All illustrations in this coloring book were adapted from the book Buffalo Illustrated: Commerce, Trade and Industries of Buffalo, published in 1890 by Anderson & Gillette and the Courier Printing Company. The copy used to create this book as well as many other wonderful items can be found in the SUNY Buffalo State College Archives and Special Collections.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/bookcase/1008/thumbnail.jp
Upending student expectations: Enhancing classroom learning and engagement with levity, dialogue, and storytelling
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Creating Digital Special Collections
No full textOne of the ways that librarians at Buffalo State have been able to utilize the institutional repository has been through the creation of digital special collections. In this talk presenters will discuss how to shape materials into digital special collections, including how to choose which materials to focus on, how to structure the web page on the repository, search engine optimization, and obtaining copyright information on the materials
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Creating Digital Special Collections
No full textOne of the ways that librarians at Buffalo State have been able to utilize the institutional repository has been through the creation of digital special collections. In this talk presenters will discuss how to shape materials into digital special collections, including how to choose which materials to focus on, how to structure the web page on the repository, search engine optimization, and obtaining copyright information on the materials.SUNY BrockportDigital Commons + Great Lakes User Group & NY IR Da
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