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| University Libraries Teaching and Training Workshops March
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- RefWorks
- Use this bibliographic tool to manage all your citations and organize them in any of 250 standard and selective style sheets. This session will cover basics RefWorks functions like creating an account, exporting citations from databases (EBSCO, OSearch, Google Scholar, etc.) and formating those citations into a bibliography. More advanced features using the Write-N-Cite plug-in to format parenthetical references in the body of your paper may be covered if time allows.
Date: Friday, March 28, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- Plagiarism
- This session will cover many different aspects of this controversial topic, ranging from the use of detection tools like Turnitin.com, to dealing with suspected instances of plagiarism, to designing assignments that discourage and inhibit plagiarism. The session will attempt to understand the student point of view as well as the teaching dilemmas that surround this issue. It is hoped that attendees will be willing to debate and discuss issues such as, what is the proper balance of educational and punitive measures when dealing with plagiarism issues?
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- Plagiarism
- This session will cover many different aspects of this controversial topic, ranging from the use of detection tools like Turnitin.com, to dealing with suspected instances of plagiarism, to designing assignments that discourage and inhibit plagiarism. The session will attempt to understand the student point of view as well as the teaching dilemmas that surround this issue. It is hoped that attendees will be willing to debate and discuss issues such as, what is the proper balance of educational and punitive measures when dealing with plagiarism issues?
Date: Friday, March 7, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- RefWorks
- Use this bibliographic tool to manage all your citations and organize them in any of 250 standard and selective style sheets. This session will cover basics RefWorks functions like creating an account, exporting citations from databases (EBSCO, OSearch, Google Scholar, etc.) and formating those citations into a bibliography. More advanced features using the Write-N-Cite plug-in to format parenthetical references in the body of your paper may be covered if time allows.
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
February
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- Philosophy Resources
- This session will explore electronic resources useful to scholars and students in philosophy and religion. We will cover UA and OhioLINK resources as well as many other resources freely available on the Internet.
Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- Electronic Resources
- This session is a general introduction on accessing and using electronic resources at UA to aid scholarly research and classroom assignments. We will cover various databases available through The University of Akron Libraries and OhioLINK. We will also cover issues of remote access and where to find help when you need it.
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- Plagiarism
- This session will cover many different aspects of this controversial topic, ranging from the use of detection tools like Turnitin.com, to dealing with suspected instances of plagiarism, to designing assignments that discourage and inhibit plagiarism. The session will attempt to understand the student point of view as well as the teaching dilemmas that surround this issue. It is hoped that attendees will be willing to debate and discuss issues such as, what is the proper balance of educational and punitive measures when dealing with plagiarism issues?
Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- RefWorks
- Use this bibliographic tool to manage all your citations and organize them in any of 250 standard and selective style sheets. This session will cover basics RefWorks functions like creating an account, exporting citations from databases (EBSCO, OSearch, Google Scholar, etc.) and formating those citations into a bibliography. More advanced features using the Write-N-Cite plug-in to format parenthetical references in the body of your paper may be covered if time allows.
Date: Friday, February 1, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
January
- eBrown Bag Seminar
- Wiki Wiki
- Come explore one of the oldest pieces of software developed for the World Wide Web. This session will briefly cover the history and philosophy of Wiki. We will spend most of the session learning to use MediaWiki syntax to quickly create content for the Web. We will also explore how wiki can be useful in the school and work environment.
Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Place: Bierce 279
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Materials:
N/A
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