Articles Read This Week (weekly)

• Academic Librarians As Campus Hubs

  Very interesting article brainstorming ways to continue making connections with other higher Ed depertments.

  tags: article read librarians higher ed higher education

• Understanding Web 2.0 Embed Codes | Mark Brumley

  This article includes an amazing video where I learned so many new things! For instance:
  
  * I didn't know that within a YouTube embed code, the YouTube link can be copied/pasted into a browser and it will open in full screen mode!
  * The same thing can be done with a slideshare presentation by locating the src code link within the embed code.
  * Prezi? Yep same thing...but a little more complicated. Locate the src code. You'll have to do a little bit of adding... copy to the .swf within the src area. Type a question mark (?) in order to ask what file should be loaded, and then copy the information in between quotation marks from the flashvars section (prezi_id...). Add this copied information to the front half of the URL and you're set to load the link full screen!

  tags: article read Web2.0 codes embed codes

• Library Instruction: No More Lecturing, No More ‘Death by PowerPoint’ « Mr. Library Dude

  Great ideas for first-year research instruction

  tags: article read library instruction

• Online Courses Can Offer Easy A's via High-Tech Cheating - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  I'm a huge supporter of Google Docs for group project collaboration. I never would have guessed that it would be used for cheating purposes, but it makes sense. 

  tags: article read higher education cheating chronicle

  • Mr. Smith figured out that the actual number of possible questions in the test bank was pretty small. If he and his friends got together to take the test jointly, they could paste the questions they saw into the shared Google Doc, along with the right or wrong answers. The schemers would go through the test quickly, one at a time, logging their work as they went. The first student often did poorly, since he had never seen the material before, though he would search an online version of the textbook on Google Books for relevant keywords to make informed guesses. The next student did significantly better, thanks to the cheat sheet, and subsequent test-takers upped their scores even further. They took turns going first. Students in the course were allowed to take each test twice, with the two results averaged into a final score.

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