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Author Archives: Paul Ayres
Search results in an Instant
Google Instant provides search results as you type, but is this necessarily a good thing? The latest search innovation from Google is to provide search results as you type. It aims to deliver faster searches, smarter predictions and instant results. … Continue reading
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Links of the week
Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and the Virtual Training Suite as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. Books vs. e-books: tale of the tape http://knowbodies.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-vs-e-books.html does one have to win? RT: @rscsam: RT @chris_hall: … Continue reading
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Anatomy of a scholarly article
Each Virtual Training Suite tutorial tells students about the scholarly publication process, points them to key journals in their field and refers them to key databases where they can find more articles, but what happens after they have found a … Continue reading
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Video tutorials on evaluating websites
Evaluating websites is an important part of becoming information literate, but can videos help to get the message across to students? There are quite a few videos on YouTube about evaluating websites and luckily some of them are from libraries … Continue reading
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By the book, the e-book
Some might say that the recent installation by Slovakian artist Matej Kren at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna composed of thousands upon thousands of books, shows the importance of books as building blocks of knowledge. However, the rise … Continue reading
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Links of the week
Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and the Virtual Training Suite as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. Google says that there are 130 million-ish books in the world http://bit.ly/db4XOx – bit of nerve criticising … Continue reading
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New tutorials on finding video and audio resources
JISC Digital Media in conjunction with the Virtual Training Suite have launched two new online tutorials: Internet for Audio Resources and Internet for Video and Moving Images. The free-to-use tutorials have been designed to assist staff and students within the … Continue reading
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CaRILLO: Information Literacy and repurposing learning objects
Carillo was a one day event for developers of information literacy teaching and learning material organised by the University of Birmingham Library. It featured a range of talks on the issues around creating, finding, sharing and re-purposing learning resources in … Continue reading
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Links of the week
Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and online resources as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. First Annual Report of Three Year (BL/JISC) Study: ‘Researchers of Tomorrow’ http://bit.ly/bVDgtB 10:22 AM Jul 22nd v RT: @mattlingard: … Continue reading
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