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Check it out: Business & Education Starters

29/04/2009 Leave a comment

Business Starters – basic introductions & overviews & reports on topics e.g.

“The Use of Web 2.0 in Business”

“Decision Support Systems”

These are basic introductions … for first year undergraduates or if you’re entering into a new area. Check it out & let me know what you think:

http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/trials.jsp

Inside the database  On the left hand side are nifty suggested subjects & you can isolate to a particular genre e.g. academic journal.

But we’ve only got it until 30th of June so let me know what you think!

FOR INFORMATION: RESEARCHERS CENTRE ACCESS

24/03/2009 Leave a comment

Did you know that the librar has an area for postgraduate students to study in? It’s on level 7 and is open to all of you doing:

  • Masters by Coursework
  • Masters by Research
  • PhD
  • Honours
Categories: researchers, teaching

QUT Library : Find Images Online : Find Videos Online

24/03/2009 Leave a comment

QUT Library has updated the 2 sites below.

To access Find Images go to the QUT Library homepage and click Find or select the more… link in the Find section. Then choose Images.

To access Find Videos go to the QUT Library homepage and click Find or select the more… link in the Find section. Then choose Video.

Is it legal to use them in lecture slides, teaching materials, assignments etc? Many of the resources available for free on the web are NOT copyright free so please check the terms of use for restrictions.

A source of images that is readily marked with copyright rights information is available at Creative Commons.

QUT IT Services Guide : Useful Guide to IT services at QUT

24/03/2009 Leave a comment

I recently accessed the QUT IT Services Guide and found it a useful source for information about the wide range of online IT services that are available across the University.

Access at http://www.itsg.qut.edu.au/

Categories: QUT, teaching

Information Literacy standards for science

24/03/2009 Leave a comment

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/infolitscitech.cfm

Science, engineering, and technology disciplines require that students demonstrate competency not only in written assignments and research papers but also in unique areas such as experimentation, laboratory research, and mechanical drawing.

The objective is to provide a set of standards that can be used by science and engineering/technology educators, in the context of their institution’s mission, to help guide their information literacy-related instruction and to assess student progress.

The field of mathematics is not included in the standards. Based on the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, five standards and twenty-five performance indicators were developed for information literacy in Science & Engineering/Technology. Each performance indicator is accompanied by one or more outcomes for assessing the progress toward information literacy of students of science and engineering or technology at all levels of higher education.

New teaching Quality Website

23/03/2009 Leave a comment

This site is worth looking at . It brings the information into one place and will help us understand the processes going on to improve teaching at QUT.

http://www.otq.qut.edu.au/

Categories: QUT, teaching

Studywell : Blackboard community site for students

23/03/2009 Leave a comment

Academic Skills Advisors at QUT developed an online epository of tuto-rials, workshops, videos, web resources to assist your students in their study and assessment at QUT.

Access Studywell via URL :

http://blackboard.qut.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=community&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_56843_1

or go to the QUT Library web-page> Contact us> Academic Skills Advisors>”Studywell”

QUT’s KeySurvey software

22/12/2008 Leave a comment

QUT’s KeySurvey software is a web-based survey creation and management system that is available to all QUT students, researchers and staff, that is easy to use and provides extensive features to develop and distribute sophisticated online surveys.

For more information go to http://survey.qut.edu.au/site/

Course Materials Database (CMD) : Requests for Summer Semester 2008 and Semester 1 2009

10/12/2008 Leave a comment

In recent surveys, QUT students have requested more academic staff add material to the CMD to support the teaching for their units.

Please note the submission dates for Summer Semester and Semester 1 2009:

Summer Semester 2008/9 units:

Submit New Requests to be done now.

Self Activation of a Single Item to be done now.

Semester 1, 2009 units:

Self Activation of Multiple Items to be done from 1 January 2009.

Self Activation of a Single Item to be done now.

Submit New Requests to be done by 2 February 2009.

To access the CMD go to the QUT Library homepage, and in the Quicklinks section select CMD.

Some existing CMD requests will expire 28 February 2009.

Use Self Activation of Multiple Items to check when your current requests will expire.

Bulk activate them as soon as possible after 1 January 2009 to ensure they are available for Semester 1 2009 (alternatively, use Self Activation of a Single Item now).

Unit Code Change

If your unit has undergone a unit code change but you require the same materials under the new unit code, use “Self Activation of a Single Item” or send an email to cmd@qut.edu.au

Linking to the CMD from QUT Blackboard

To add a link to the CMD to a page in your QUT Blackboard site:

  1. Go into Edit View
  2. Select CMD from the pull-down Select menu (at the top right of the content area)
  3. Click the Go button (to the right of the menu)
  4. This will bring up the Add CMD form
  5. Select the Submit button and a link to the CMD will be added to the content area.

Please contact the IT Helpdesk for support in using QUT Blackboard (email: ithelpdesk@qut.edu.au | phone 3138 4000)

For more information on how to:

Reactivate documents: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/teaching/cmd_for_staff.jsp#reactivating

Submit new documents: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/teaching/cmd_for_staff.jsp#add

Further instructions on how to use the CMD are available at: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/teaching/cmd_for_staff.jsp

Please direct all enquiries to the Library (email: cmd@qut.edu.au | phone: 3138 3245).

use of Social Networking Sites and Services by Higher Ed Citizens

30/10/2008 Leave a comment

The 2008 edition of the _ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology_ that was released this week includes extensive data and analyses on the use of Social Networking Sites and Services by Higher Ed Citizens.

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008 (ID: ERS0808)

Gail Salaway (EDUCAUSE) and Judith Borreson Caruso (University of Wisconsin-Madison) /With: Mark R. Nelson (NACS) / Introduction by: Nicole Ellison (Michigan State University)
Documents Contributed by ECAR, Research Studies (10/21/2008)

Abstract: This 2008 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 ECAR studies of students and information technology. The study is based on quantitative data from a spring 2008 survey of 27,317 freshmen and seniors at 90 four-year institutions and eight two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 75 students at four institutions; and analysis of qualitative data from 5,877 written responses to open-ended questions.

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