Are you a faculty member who
* finds your students’ research projects disappointing?
* is puzzled by students’ lack of information literacy, despite their savvy with technology?
If you want to help turn this around, librarians can be your best partners. Not only are they experts on the wide variety of resources that are available, they also know which ones students like and will use. They can help instructors effectively weave information literacy into engaging and enjoyable classroom activities, and can help reinvigorate research assignments. Librarians can also help their institutions meet the requirements of accreditation bodies, which increasingly insist that students gain information literary skills in their studies.

Knowledge benefits for you:
* Get specific tips and techniques for classroom collaborations with librarians
* Understand what broad information literacy competencies students should possess before graduating
* Learn best practices for information literacy and collaboration
* Receive a reading list and other materials you can put to work after the seminar
* Discuss ideas for engaging classroom assignments and active learning activities

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When: Monday, April 14 at 1:00 p.m.

Where: Room L01 in the Collaborative Learning Center downstairs in the Bass Library

Who and What: Judy Perry Research Associate, Teacher Education Program, from MIT will discuss augmented reality (AR) experiences and ongoing research into how these immersive environments might offer new student-centered learning opportunities.

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Robin Ladouceur, Foreign Language Resource Specialist, from the Center for Language Study gave a demo of VoiceThread. VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold any type of media (images, documents and videos) allowing people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.

Voicethread is a free, online program that, like flickr, you can pay a small fee ($29.99/yr) to upgrade your account for more flexibility. You can use VoiceThread to browse already existing VoiceThreads or to easily create your own. You can start with images or video imported from anywhere (flickr, Facebook, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, PDF) and then add either a textual or audio comment.
Robin showed the following to explain, http://voicethread.com/#home.b409.i3113.

Robin showed created a VoiceThread during the session:

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