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Professional infographic designers rely primarily on a core vector graphics software program to create their infographics designs. The main advantage is that all the icons, charts, images, illustrations, and data visualizations are treated as separate objects that can be easily moved, resized, overlapped, and rotated. No matter where you create the individual design elements, the final infographic design is usually put together in a vector graphics program. 
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Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there’s a good chance you’re not using Google Docs to its fullest capability.
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I read recently that content curation is dead. I have a few different arguments against this concept, but for now, I’ll keep it short and sweet: Content curation is not dead, and while the debate over curating content online vs creating new content will rage on and on, curating content for other reasons is still going strong.
Begoña Iturgaitz's curator insight,
October 5, 2014 6:02 AM
I also agreee with this issue as good references are still a must. Probably, we'd stick to great curation features: short, simple and useful. Curation tools are smart mainly for two purposes: the basic, to share only best quality content on the web and secondly to release good content you've already produced. The only hiccups is to be honest enough to publish only best quality stuff.
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Close reading is a much debated topic in the world of academe. I have recently attended a seminar on this topic and it seems like several teachers are still missing the mark concerning what and how to go about teaching students to be close readers. Close reading is definitely a "survival skill" particularly in a world drowned in information. Close reading is all about reading differently.
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All your websites and online resources in one place. Great for teachers, students and parents.
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In my previous post I shared that I like to have students create a list of things they know before they start to search. Once they move on to Googling things another common bad habit often rears its head.
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ThingLink is an excellent web tool that allows you to create interactive images online. The images you create can come alive by adding to them text, video, music, and links. ThingLink has also recently rolled out a new feature, which is still in beta, that allows you to add interactive pinmarks to YouTube videos. These pin marks can be links to other videos or websites.
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Research shows that college freshmen face a real challenge when they first conduct research at the college level. Despite their high levels of confidence, th...
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Speed-learners provide their tips and tricks for mastering any material fast.
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Managing the interface between people and technology.
Two weeks ago I participated in the annual ANZSOG Master Class held at the Melbourne Business School and facilitated by Professors John Alford, Jon Brock and Mike Vitale. The workshop brings together academics from the public policy space and this year the first day was spent focusing on the potential impact of online education and how current teaching practitioners are working within this area. As a part if this I was asked to talk about my own observations and, as I listened to the conversations around me, and thought of the people that we teach within ANZSOG, it reinforced in my mind that the most fundamental education that is needed across the board is to teach digital literacy in order to facilitate digital competency.
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Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, runs through the seven questions libraries need to address as they consider future services and their role for their patrons and communities. He describes how project research about the changing role of technology in people’s lives affects the kinds of issues librarians need to address as they experience the disruptions of technology change.
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Most of us are learning new stuff everyday. That might be from lectures, meetings, or even just a good podcast. If you want to really ingrain that experience in your mind, writer Robyn Scott suggests writing down a short, 30 seconds note.
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Academic writing is inherently critical in that the writer has to develop an argument, provides a logical path of reasoning , a body of facts, ideas theses and anti-thesis to defend or refute a claim. This process of argumentation is usually encompassed within a well-written language. The writing style here is an essential component that determines the validity and authority of the academic piece.
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Teaching Google Natives To Value Information
The usual term is a digital native–students born into our digital, connected, and uber-social world who have always had Wikipedia to ask questions, and Google to bail them out.
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Let's start with the low-hanging fruit of information literacy education, teaching students how to make a functional container for research discoveries. I call it a container in the classes I teac...
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by Rebecca Tischler, Head Editor, INALJ Tennessee 5 Things That People Don’t Realize their Librarians Do Many people still have the stereotypical image of a librarian stuck in their head: an older ...
Maria Richards's curator insight,
August 27, 2014 8:53 AM
I'd like to think others may be interested in what Librarian do, do!!!
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Plagiarism is an unfortunate reality, and knowing how to spot and correct it is incredibly important. Learn more in UIC's latest infographic.
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Skills@Library supports students, researchers and staff to enhance their learning, teaching and research
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![[Poster] Which Creative Commons License is Right for me? | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/pjOlqT2_N4xsh6tBRmJP7jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
The poster explains the rules associated with the various types of Creative Commons license visually and helps you pick the right license for sharing your work.
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It is an information literacy and communication skills resource developed especially for use with tablets and smartphones. It is developed from SMILE, but has simplified content and structure. SMIRK is completely free for everyone to use and has no login.
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Knowing how to research and find the information you seek is an important skill. Fortunately, the Internet is a vast font of knowledge. The trick is in using the right tools. Here are a few that can aid learners in their search for answers.
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If you read the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it would take you 57,000 years to reach the end. You could bind the pages in a 10,000-foot-tall book weighing 1.2 billion pounds. Printing it would require half a million liters of ink, which is the volume of fuel it would take to power a 747 jet leaving New York and heading east to Tokyo. It would use enough paper to cover half of Long Island, or twice the number of trees in Central Park. If the Ancient Babylonians had started printing the Internet in 1800 BC, they’d be done right about now!
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PISA 2012 Results: Creative Problem Solving: Students’ skills in tackling real-life problems (Volume V) examines the extent to which 15-year-olds have acquired the problem-solving skills needed in the 21st century.
This fifth volume of PISA 2012 results presents an assessment of student performance in creative problem solving, which measures students’ capacity to respond to non-routine situations in order to achieve their potential as constructive and reflective citizens. It provides the rationale for assessing problem-solving skills and describes performance within and across the 44 countries and economies that took part in the assessment. In addition, the volume highlights the relative strengths and weaknesses of each school system and examines how they are related to individual student characteristics, such as gender, immigrant background and socio-economic status. The volume also explores the role of education in fostering problem-solving skills. .
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Good researchers have a host of tools at their disposal that make navigating today’s complex information ecosystem much more manageable. Gaining the knowledge, abilities, and self-reflection necessary to be a good researcher helps not only in academic settings, but is invaluable in any career, and throughout one’s life. The Information Literacy User’s Guide will start you on this route to success.
ALMcCain Library's curator insight,
April 8, 2014 9:46 AM
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