Community of Online Research Assignments

Scholarly Articles: Reading for Understanding

This activity/assignment was designed for a first year composition course in collaboration with an English/Writing instructor. It could be used in an information literacy credit course, First Year Experience course, or in another discipline-specific context. The purpose of the lesson is to lay the foundation for students to be able to read scholarly work more effectively and critically.

Reading, Research, and Writing: Teaching Information Literacy with Process-Based Research Assignments

Explores how reading and the writing process are as important as and critically connected to the research process. Chapter five has the greatest emphasis on information literacy. Provides examples of instructional support to facilitate conversations between librarians and faculty, as well as ways librarians can work directly with students.

Teaching with Data: CET Assignment Repository from USC

The resources included represent 12 data-driven assignments created by USC faculty recipients of the Provost's Data-Driven Assignment Grant Program in Spring 2015. The faculty grant recipients worked with instructional designers in the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching to design these assignments in accordance with advancing USC's strategic focus on data literacy for students including abilities to think critically about data, ask meaningful questions, make evidence-based observations, and communicate findings.

Data Information Literacy

The working space for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research project investigating data information literacy (DIL) needs of e-scientists. With the continued evolution of technology driven research or "e-science" impacting the skills necessary for effective data management and curation, a curriculum designed to effectively prepare the next generation of scientists for the dynamic nature of research becomes necessary.

Evaluating Historical Sources

Made to be an in class activity or a library resource requested by professors for courses. The first page goes with the instruction portion of a class. 'What is a primary source? What is a secondary source? What is a tertiary source?' It takes them through example types of sources, particularly concerned with history courses. The second and third pages require evaluation of a student's primary and secondary sources.

BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit

The Accessibility Toolkit is a collaboration between BCcampus and Centre for Accessible Post-secondary Education Resources BC (CAPER-BC). The goal of the Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the resources needed so that each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, etc. has the opportunity to create a truly open and accessible textbook (or other instructional material).

Google Forms

Google Forms is a Google App that can be used to create forms and surveys to collect student data. You can add in different question types, images, videos, or links. There is also a self-grading quiz activated by hitting the settings gear at the top right, choosing quizzes, and selecting “make this a quiz.” You can view the responses from inside the form builder by clicking on the Response tab at the top of the form. You can also export the responses to a Google Sheet by clicking the green Sheets icon at the top right, or choosing to download them in a .csv format.

Formative

Formative is an online tool that offers the opportunity to create assignments, deliver them to students, receive results, and provide individualized feedback in real-time. Use the platform to create new and original assignments for students, or upload pre-existing documents and turn them into paperless assignments. Options include multiple-choice questions, short response, illustrated response, or uploaded images/documents.

Quizizz

This site gamifies and enlivens quizzes. The upbeat environment allows for optional music, immediate feedback, timers, and fun memes. You can create your own quizzes or borrow and modify from an extensive bank of existing quizzes. After students take quizzes, you can view and download results to Excel. Use Quizizz for formative assessments, checking for understanding, and exit tickets. Note that all questions are multiple choice.

Kahoot!

Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system that can be played by the whole class in real time. Using a simple drag and drop feature, instructors can create multiple-choice quizzes, discussion, or surveys which can be embedded with images, text, or video. Questions are projected on the screen, and students answer with any device. 

Socrative

Formative assessments through quizzes (multiple choice, True/False, and short answer) or quick question polls for up to 50 students per session. Quizzes can be instantly graded and aggregated. Also, up to 20 students can play the "Space Race." 

FlipQuiz

A quick way to create your own gameshow-style boards (e.g. Jeopardy) for test reviews in the classroom. Text-based questions are displayed on-screen and boards are saved for later use. You can create up to 6 categories, with 5 questions per category. Up to 10 teams can participate. Each question is worth a different amount of points, from 100 points to 500 points.

TEDEd

TEDEd allows educators to create and share lessons built around YouTube videos. The embedded lesson creator allows users to 1) FIND video content through an integrated search panel, 2) SELECT a video or lesson to be customized, and 3) FLIP a video by adding questions, notes, and content. The TEDEd library is continually growing and is searchable and browsable by series and subject. Mostly for grades K-12.

Edudemic

Edudemic has forums, articles, ideas, and resources on everything technology. Sample topics include How-To, Tools, Trends, Online Learning, and Video Collections.

teachthought

TeachThought is a brand dedicated to innovation in K-20 education. This is pursued by growing teaching through thought leadership, resource curation, curriculum development, podcast publishing, and face-to-face professional development in schools.

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Toolkit

The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Toolkit is a professional development resource that can be used and adapted by both individuals and groups in order to foster understanding and use of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The toolkit contains four modules: Finding Time to Engage the Framework, The Framework's Structure, Foundations of the Framework, and Strategies for Using the Framework.