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Location: NUL Forum Room

Reference librarian, Geoff Morse and Political Science graduate student, Sebastian Karcher will present two tools that will help you manage your research sources.

EndNote and Zotero are two widely used bibliographic management tools that can be used to collection, manage, and cite your research sources.  These tools work with word processing programs – like Microsoft Word – to format documents in a wide variety of bibliographic styles.

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Location: NUL Forum Room

Media Space is NUIT’s system for the management and publishing of audio and video media for the Northwestern University community. It is available for Faculty and staff in support of teaching, research, and other communication activities. Media Space may be used to publish audio and video content to the University’s Blackboard-based Course Management System (CMS), to institutional areas of iTunes U and YouTube, or to the open World Wide Web.

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Location: NU Library Forum Room

Presenters will demonstrate the use of Bboogle in the classroom and talk about its relevance to teaching and learning through collaboration.

According to Jonathan Smith, Software Architect at Northwestern, “I initiated our Google integration project because we were approached by a faculty member in anthropology who had been using Google Apps in his classes. In the past we had used wikis in history classes to allow students to work directly with primary source materials, and it occurred to me that Google Apps could support a much higher level of student and faculty collaboration. By integrating the applications into Blackboard we could make that kind of collaborative learning experience available to more of our students than ever before.”

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Related links:

Join the Bboogle open source community

See what the official Google Apps Blog says about Bboogle

Bboogle Twine

Location: NUL Forum Room

John Hernandez is the Coordinator for Social Sciences at the Main Library.

For the last decade, John has been a reference and instruction librarian specializing in political science, public policy, public administration, and government information resources. He has taught many classes on finding government information, database searching, Web searching, and using the Web for academic research.

John will demonstrate techniques using Google’s advanced search features to help you zero in on scholarly materials via the Web. He will also cover Google’s specialized tools, including Google Scholar and Google Book Search, and discuss ways to use these in concert with other traditional library tools to make the most of your search.

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Session Handout: Google for Academic Research (PDF)

Location:  Ver Steeg Lounge, in the Library’s 3 South Tower

Bring your follow-up questions to the year-end Scholarly Resources & Technology Series poster session while enjoying pub-style refreshments and informal conversation with the presenters.

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Posters will include:

Copyright & Fair Use in Digital Resources

NU Mounting Books

Safe Assignment

Using Google for Academic Research

Using Google Apps in the Classroom


Digitizing the Past:  Archival Images

iTunesU and Media Space

Location: NUL Forum Room

Shelby Hatch is Lecturer of Chemistry and Director of Northwestern’s Undergraduate General Chemistry Laboratory. Taylor Page, Chemistry graduate student and Shelby will present their current work with Google Apps in the laboratory.

During the course of a laboratory session, students typically collect and analyze their own data. Students collect data themselves, but since the class is so large, they are unable to see how their data compare to that of everyone else. We are developing a technological means to give context to student data in a laboratory experience and extend information beyond mere numbers to the quantification of reality. The tool facilitates statistical calculations to address students’ lack of experience. We have taken a novel approach to allow students access to data collected across the entire laboratory in real time.

We are utilizing Google Apps for the flexibility, transparency, and ease of use. All students have access to the data both inside and outside the laboratory. Assignments relating to statistical analysis of data, further graphing, etc. are then possible. This tool can ultimately be implemented as part of any quantitative lab.

It gives students an understanding of the variability of data and the necessity for repetition of procedures, the ability to describe and differentiate the precision and accuracy of the methods they use in a given lab, and an appreciation for their results in the context of other data.

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Location:  NUL Forum Room

Through @u.northwestern.edu services, Northwestern students have access to Google Apps for Education: Google Sites (an easy-to-use application for building group web sites and collaboration spaces), Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Each of these tools can also be used by faculty to enhance the classroom learning environment and complement Blackboard.

Jeff Merrell will provide an introduction to Google Apps for Education, share how he used Google Sites and applications in teaching a graduate course during Winter quarter, and offer insights on effective practices.

Jeff is Associate Director of the Master’s Program in Learning and Organizational Change in the School of Education and Social Policy.

Location: NUL Forum Room

John Hernandez is the Coordinator for Social Sciences at the Main Library.

For the last decade, John has been a reference and instruction librarian specializing in political science, public policy, public administration, and government information resources. He has taught many classes on finding government information, database searching, Web searching, and using the Web for academic research.

John will demonstrate techniques using Google’s advanced search features to help you zero in on scholarly materials via the Web. He will also cover Google’s specialized tools, including Google Scholar and Google Book Search, and discuss ways to use these in concert with other traditional library tools to make the most of your search.

PDF of handout from John’s talk

Location: NUL Forum Room

Northwestern on iTunes U is a free service that allows anyone on iTunes to view University-produced podcasts on a variety of mobile devices.

University schools and departments wishing to contribute a University-related podcast can send an e-mail to Faculty Support Services. Supported files include most common forms of audio & video formats, enhanced podcasts, common image formats, text, and PDFs.

Representatives of NUIT Academic & Research Technologies will present information sessions about the new mobile service and guidelines on how to contribute podcasts to the Northwestern playlist in two upcoming workshops.

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