Are You Using the CCCOnline Library Resources? (Please Take Our Survey!)

Mary Cash, CCCOnline Librarian, will be our guest this month in the Cultivating Excellence blog.  Please feel free to join the library and information literacy conversations in the companion Community threads!

Do you have assignments that require your students to do research or use library resources? We just wanted to remind you that you’ll find our Online Library resources on the Student Wiki under Academic Resources: https://at.ccconline.org/students/wiki/Academic_Resources_-_CCCOnline_Library_Resources

Our Online Library Resources include access to the CCCOnline/FRCC College Hill article databases, links to each of the system’s community college libraries, information on evaluating sources, Online Reference resources, help on doing research from a distance, and online reference assistance such as AskColorado, 24/7 Live Chat with a Librarian offered through Colorado Libraries. You’ll also find our revised and expanded Research and Writing Toolkit, which offers help with Academic Integrity/Plagiarism, Doing Research and Writing.

So, now that you know what online library resources we have, we’d like to pick your brains to find out how you’re using our resources in your classes with your students and we’d also like to know what kinds of library resources/library assistance you’d like to see that we’re currently not offering.  Please take our short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WW27CB7

-Mary Cash

Visit the Recorded Webinars

Each month we conduct at least one webinar on pedagogical or technical skills. On Friday Oct 1, Turnitin joined us to do their presentation from the conference. As was true at the conference, the presentation was very well received by the attendees.

BUT, what can you do if Friday at 1pm doesn’t work for you? ANSWER: We record our webinars and post them on the wiki Webinar Archive page within a few days of the event. Over the last couple of years we have built quite a list of resources on a variety of topics that you may enjoy.

My favorite part of listening to a webinar is that I can pause the presentation, speed it up, rewind it, or stop it and return to it later. I can also run the webinar and try what a presenter is demonstrating immediately in my sandbox course.

If you haven’t checked this resource out lately, please do so. If you have ideas for additional webinar topics that you would like this year, please post your comments in the CCCOnline Community’s Cultivating Excellence discussion; look for thread “Visit the Recorded Webinars”. Also, please share which webinars you’ve found most helpful and informative whether you attended in person or listened to the recording. We love getting feedback and want to schedule these events to best meet your needs.

Also, check out the Upcoming webinar page for events we have scheduled this fall.

Research and Writing Toolkit: Your Input Wanted!

Have you ever wished for a set of quick links to assign to your students for brush-up help on research skills, avoiding plagiarism, or writing in general?

We’re happy to say we’ve been working on such a project, and we seek your feedback!

Here is a link to our archived presentation at the faculty conference; also please note this direct link to the Research and Writing Toolkit.

Finally, in the corresponding CCCOnline Community discussion, we would love to hear your answers to any of these questions:
1) What subject do you teach and how would you use the RWT in your course(s)?
2) Which particular RWT resources would you find most helpful?
3) After you’ve reviewed the current RWT: do you have suggestions for content or layout?

Thank you!

Using TurnItIn: Upcoming Webinar

We heard great feedback about TurnItIn’s presentation at the CCCOnline Conference, but if you missed it, please note that Renee Bangerter and Jan Gilboy of TurnItIn graciously have agreed to present for us again. They will join us at our Webinar next Friday, October 1, at 1:00 p.m. on Elluminate.

This Webinar, titled “TurnItIn’s Markup and Plagiarism Detection Tools: The Mechanics and Beyond,” will address basic how-tos and answer your technical questions. We also will discuss how to use these tools constructively in your courses (i.e., interpret plagiarism results on OriginalityCheck, use this plagiarism detection as a learning tool, and use the markup tool, GradeMark, effectively).

Until next Friday, we would like to gather your questions: what do you want to know about TurnItIn? If you have TurnItIn experience you would like to share, we’d like to hear from you, as well. Please post your ideas in the appropriate discussion in the CCCOnlineCommunity.