Using Social Media to Foster Student Community and Networking

Select this picture link below to access the 45+ minute long presentation by Professor Julie Brown on the use of Facebook to foster student community and networking.

More Google help links

GOOGLE MAIL OR GMAIL…

Interested in getting your Pipeline Gmail on your iPhone, Droid, or iPad?  Select one of the links below….

1. Android phone setup
2. iPhone or iPad setup
   • iPhone (Why does my iPhone Gmail say archive instead of delete and how to change it...)
3. Blackberry setup (not officially supported though it appears to work)

Interested in using Microsoft Outlook or Apple’s iMail client to access your Pipeline Gmail?

1. Microsoft Outlook 2007-2010 setup
2. Apple iMail setup (OS Leopard or newer)

GOOGLE DOCS OR DRIVE…

1. File or space size limits for Google doc type files

FORWARDING your Groupwise Email to Gmail

• Instructions for forwarding your email alternate

Google Search Techniques

For those of you who are teaching information literacy such as improving Google Search Techniques, here’s a link to Google’s Search Education site including lessons plans, etc.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

Or, for something more local, you can view our SBCC library’s video webinar on improving Google searching results.

Taking pictures in public areas – Know your rights

For those of you traveling this summer, here’s a great short article from Lifehacker.com on knowing your photographic rights while shooting photos in public places.

http://lifehacker.com/know-your-rights/

Anti-Plagiarism – Part 2

Here’s a link to a short article in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education online issue (11/7/11) on combating plagiarism.  Though the article talked about a new tool (WriteCheck) offered by Turnitin geared at students to “screen drafts,” the author also offered a number of anti-plagiarism strategies.  They are:

“Shift assignments that rely on libraries and printed texts rather than online materials.  Build creative projects that require students to turn in interview recordings or blend personal narratives into their research.  Remove the temptation to cheat at the last minute by breaking up assignments into multiple pieces with discrete due dates.”

The last suggestion is my favorite for new writers and projects though I think that you could also do a hybrid of one of the others such as asking students to keep a journal describing their thinking along the way which is similar to the personal narratives.  This  makes it much more difficult to cheat and it helps the students develop meta-cognitive skills.

The article also suggested that composition teachers might consider reviewing some of the data from the Citation project (see this same issue) and from those student practices consider altering the way they teach composition such as “starting the research process collaboratively with students… select a few complex sources and explore them with the whole class… not rushing students quite so quickly in their first semester into writing a 25-page research paper…”