Undergraduate / Bachelors

Submitted by Melanie Hubbard on May 7th, 2020
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For this project you will be creating a digital resource that can be used to help teach about the Southern California Library’s mission and materials, how to work with archival materials, and, in general, how to work with and research primary sources.  

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Gain the ability to: work with, contextualize and present on primary sources; communicate to a general audience; work with and be critical of certain digital tools; and collaborate on digital projects

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

This assignment was created for Critical Methodology, a required graduate-level English course at Loyola University.

Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.): 
Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 
Suggested Citation: 
Hubbard, Melanie. "Archives, Race and Justice." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/archives-race-and-justice.
Submitted by Elizabeth Dobbins on May 6th, 2020
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This assignment introduces students to United States patents and to prior art searching using two free, online databases: Espacenet and Lens.org. Instructional videos are available at: http://guides.lib.campbell.edu/patents

This assignment is designed to be scalable so that it can be implemented at an introductory level in a first-year design course, and replicated in the senior design course. To scale the assignment, modify the number of resources students are required to analyze and intensify the synthesis/analysis components.

Learning Outcomes: 
  • Students will be able to determine the patentability of their invention based on a nuanced understanding of United States utility patents and intellectual property.
  • Students will be able to conduct a sophisticated prior art search using Cooperative Patent Classifications.
Discipline: 
Engineering

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

This assignment was scaled for a first-year Foundations of Engineering Design course. As such, students were only required to analyze 6 patent documents in detail.

The assignment was developed in collaboration with Dr. Lee Rynearson, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Campbell University. 

Assessment or Criteria for Success
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Dobbins, Elizabeth. "Patent Research Assignment." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/patent-research-assignment.
Submitted by Amanda Thompson on May 3rd, 2020
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This syllabus is a sample for an online literature course. I created this sample around Victorian studies, but any literature subject is applicable. I've provided examples of online projects. The goal of a syllabus like this one is to introduce students to literature, making online objects, and utilizing open resources effectively.

Below is a link to a sample learning object:

https://ajthomp55.wixsite.com/lispractvanhelsing

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Exposure: Students will learn about the Victorian era through selected literature. They will do so in a completely online format.

Create: Students will create digital objects that reflect their analysis of a Victorian text. 

Research: Students will learn to meaningfully engage with open access content, and learn about copyright.

Reflect: Students will complete reflective essays that inform the viewer of the decisions in their digital object.

Peer Review: Students will virtually workshop their digital objects together throughout the semester. They will share their work on the course discussion board to give and provide constructive feedback on their ideas, objects, etc. They will also use select class meetings for workshops.

Discipline: 
English

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Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 
Suggested Citation: 
Thompson, Amanda. "Online Victorian Literature Syllabus." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/online-victorian-literature-syllabus-0.
Submitted by Amanda Thompson on May 3rd, 2020
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Short Description: 

This syllabus is a sample for an online literature course. I created this sample around Victorian studies, but any literature subject is applicable. I've provided examples of online projects. The goal of a syllabus like this one is to introduce students to literature, making online objects, and utilizing open resources effectively.

Below is a link to a sample learning object:

https://ajthomp55.wixsite.com/lispractvanhelsing

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Victorian Online Literature.docxdisplayed 1294 times457.8 KB
Learning Outcomes: 

Exposure: Students will learn about the Victorian era through selected literature. They will do so in a completely online format.

Create: Students will create digital objects that reflect their analysis of a Victorian text. 

Research: Students will learn to meaningfully engage with open access content, and learn about copyright.

Reflect: Students will complete reflective essays that inform the viewer of the decisions in their digital object.

Peer Review: Students will virtually workshop their digital objects together throughout the semester. They will share their work on the course discussion board to give and provide constructive feedback on their ideas, objects, etc. They will also use select class meetings for workshops.

Discipline: 
English

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 
Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.): 
Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 
Suggested Citation: 
Thompson, Amanda. "Online Victorian Literature Syllabus." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/online-victorian-literature-syllabus.
Submitted by Zoeanna Mayhook on April 21st, 2020
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Quiz your students on library terminology and concepts using this Library Jeopardy! template. This activity can be done for in-person library instruction sessions, or via Zoom/live virtual instruction sessions.

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Learning Outcomes: 

Students will be able to review library terminology and quiz their knowledge.

 

Discipline: 
Multidisciplinary

Information Literacy concepts:

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

Jeopardy board options are hyperlinked to different question slides. Participants can break up into teams, or be quizzed invidually. Instructors can use buzzers, or students can raise their hand or type their responses into a chat box (during virtual sessions).

Suggested Citation: 
Mayhook, Zoeanna. "Library Jeopardy! Template ." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/library-jeopardy-template.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on March 23rd, 2020
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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Learning Outcomes: 

In the Digital Wellness Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. evaluate & articulate their digital wellness priorities
  2. recognize that their relationship with technology can have real world impact on their personal wellbeing, including relationships, mental health, & professional aspirations
  3. align their online activity & habits within the context of their wellness goals
  4. model constructive online and offline behaviors as individuals, student leaders, and future professionals
Discipline: 
Multidisciplinary

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Wellness Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-wellness-workshop.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on March 23rd, 2020
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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Learning Outcomes: 

In the Digital Shred Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. Reflect on and describe their digital privacy priorities in order to articulate the benefits and risks of their digital dossier
  2. Apply a growth mindset to critically examine their current data exhaust // digital footprint and recognize when change is needed
  3. Develop a Personal Data Integrity Plan that makes routine the process of auditing and updating their digital dossier in alignment with their privacy values
  4. Describe “digital shred” and its importance.
Discipline: 
Multidisciplinary

Information Literacy concepts:

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Shred Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-shred-workshop.
Submitted by Aisha Conner-Gaten on March 4th, 2020
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Using three example excerpts on citation practice and the experiences of specific scholars, attendees will interrogate and discuss how whiteness and other oppressions impact citation practice using a series of questions. 

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Learning Outcomes: 

By Example Number
Example 1:

  • Attendees will identify definitions of erasure and punitive and opportunistic plagiarism 
  • Attendees will reflect on oppression as perpetrated through traditional, textual citation practice

Example 2:

  • Attendees will examine the ways in which indigenous scholars navigate peer review
  • Attendees will reflect on oppression as perpetrated through traditional, textual citation practice

Example 3:

  • Attendees will examine the pros and cons of citing problematic scholars
  • Attendees will develop a strategy for citing problematic scholars bolstered by their personal ethics
  • Attendees will reflect on oppression as perpetrated through traditional, textual citaiton practice

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

This activity was done during a citation panel event: https://cal.lmu.edu/event/citations2020#.XmA4O5NKhTY. This was 25 minutes (15 minutes to read and discuss in pairs and 10 minutes to share with the larger group). Discussion was facilitated.

Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 

When facilitating larger discussion, provide summary of each reading as some groups may need context. Review each questions so attendees can share notes taken. Save last question of each example for a shared discussion (each example has same last question).

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Suggested Citation: 
Conner-Gaten, Aisha. "Politics of Citation Discussion Activity." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/politics-citation-discussion-activity.
Submitted by Kari Whitney on February 27th, 2020
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The Densho website provides first-hand accounts and other resources that document the experience of Japanese American incarceration in World War II. This activity guides students through the Densho Encyclopedia to find historical and cultural information related to themes from Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.

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Access historical and cultural information using the Densho website

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Suggested Citation: 
Whitney, Kari. "Using Densho." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/using-densho.
Submitted by Aisha Conner-Gaten on January 22nd, 2020
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This workshop introduces zines to a First Year Women's and Gender Studies class including what they are, general history and culture in the United States, and the process of making zines. This workshop supported a class assignment where students make zines featuring class readings and a reflective essay including original creative works. In the sessions, students recieve "handout" zines for note-taking and reflective work, a short lecture on zines, and work with databases to find pieces for their zine topics or ideas. The instructor can find example zines for the interactive exercise on Internet Archive and other collections.

Learning Outcomes: 
  • Students will know the basics of zines as cultural and reflective documents in order to determine social value
  • Students will analyze zines for cultural and social impact and themes in order to recreate zines with their topics
  • Students will employ database searches in order to find and evaluate pieces for zine assignment
Discipline: 
Women's Studies

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

The course assignment for this workshop focused on the creation of the zine specifically incorporating previous course readings, essays, creative works, and organizational research. In support of this, the library workshop on zines introduced to idea of zines, showed examples with partner question work, and research time to explore subject databases for relevant articles and images.

Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.): 
Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 

Time! Consider shortening zine handout to provide more time to create or work on individual zines. Perhaps even make a blank version with minimal illustration.

Suggested Citation: 
Conner-Gaten, Aisha. "Zine Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/zine-workshop.

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