Educational Technology Wiki
Created by the Educational Technology staff at UConn to offer tips on training on a variety of techie tools.
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Chronicle of Higher Ed article focusing on misconception that “Students don’t need to be taught anything about working online, because they were practically born digital…”
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“I knew …the book’s migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels“– From author Steven Johnson’s view of a future with “more books, more distractions — and the end of reading alone.”
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Guess what? Despite faculty warnings, students will still go to Wikipedia anyway. Not much of a surprise and this video shows students’ perspective on this very tempting resource.
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Short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
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Have you created an account with RefWorks to organize citations and create bibliographies? RefWorks exports entries directly from most of the Libraries’ databases.
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Refer your students to the Assignment Calculator, a handy tool that breaks the research process into 12 steps and assigns deadlines.
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LibGuides guide your students through the research process. They can be customized to your specific assignment and linked to HuskyCT. Let us know if you’d like to create a LibGuide for your class this semester.
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