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See you at Camp Teach & Learn!
Will you be at Camp Teach & Learn next week? If so we look forward to seeing you at the following sessions! Reflect, Integrate, Demonstrate: Student Digital Portfolio Pilots Wednesday 24 May 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM As we build a curriculum that asks students to reflect upon and integrate their coursework and co-curricular activities,…
Wrapping up Open Access Week
We had a great time creating our tweet-stream about Open Access for International Open Access Week last week! If you didn’t follow us, click on the Storify above to read all our Tweets – I promise you won’t be disappointed! Bonus points if you find yourself mentioned! I’d like to leave you with what I…
Open Access Week 2016, Open in Action, Starts Today!
Today marks the beginning of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme is “Open in Action.” To celebrate, we are posting with the hashtag #ConnCollegeOA on Twitter throughout the week, multiple times a day. Follow us to learn about Open Access, why Open Access matters, how to participate and make your work more widely available….
Open Access Day 5: Teaching Open Access
This week we’ve talked about what open access is, how we promote open access at Connecticut College, and how to maintain rights over your intellectual property. This is a teaching blog, so I’d like this last post to focus on educating students about open access. Our students today are the scholars of tomorrow. Promoting open…
Open Access Week Day 4: Is Your Work Still Yours? Author’s Rights
We have made it to the fourth day of Open Access Week! At this point, we helped answer the questions What is Open Access? and What are we doing at Connecticut College? We only have two more days left and there is still so much to discuss! This post will be devoted to author’s rights…
Local to Global Open Access
How are we promoting open access here at Connecticut College? How can you get involved in this global movement on a local level? You already are! Connecticut College is one of a few progressive institutions that have formally adopted an open access policy. In 2013 faculty approved the “Open Access Policy of the Connecticut College…
What is Open Access?
Do you know what open access is? There are many myths surrounding open access. Take a minute (or a few) to learn about open access by watching these brief but informative videos. Have 8 minutes? Watch Open Access Explained! by Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen. Only have one minute? Watch The Library Minute: Open Access from…
Happy Open Access Week!
Happy Seventh Open Access Week! This week is a global celebration of the open access movement in scholarly research. Throughout this week I will use this blog to share information about open access. But first, why should you care about open access? The price of access to scholarly research, the same research that you produce,…
Can I use that image? Finding images for online, educational use
As more and more faculty assign multimedia projects, the inevitable question arises, can I use this image on my site? Or, in a different scenario, why can’t I use this image on my blog? Without wanting to get into the details of what images you can and cannot use, we want to share some easy…