Tips, Tools and Tutorials from the D'Youville Library
The library is here to support you in your pursuit of teaching excellence. We have created a short list of new books from our collection that will have new ideas for even the most experienced faculty.
Continue reading “Five books to transform your teaching”
Students are willing to do assigned readings but they don’t want to pay extra for this privilege. Many are on tight budgets and aren’t happy by surprise fees in their classes. A recent Twitter thread reflected these sentiments with posts ranging from “I feel like I am being scammed” to “charging students to access their homework and textbook should be illegal”. These were among the few comments not laced with profanities that could be printed here.
They also don’t like it when they have to hunt around to find an assigned reading. Spending energy searching the Internet or library collection for that article lessens student engagement.
Make the students happy by creating a reading list using free, high quality academic resources from the library. The Curriculum Builder tool is the easiest way to connect to our collection from Canvas.
Continue reading “This library resource can save you time and your students money”
Multimedia content is a great way to reinforce lessons by providing information in a format that is easy to process and recall. Students are accustomed to using sites like YouTube to learn new skills and information. They are also able to rewind and re-watch until they understand the ideas presented.
Adding video to your classes is an easy way to engage and enlighten your students. Sifting through thousands of videos looking for quality educational content is not though.
Continue reading “Are you looking for interesting content to add to your classes this semester?”
The library has a multitude of online content you can add to your class without having to worry about copyright or other restrictions. We have a little bit of everything including journal articles, ebooks and streaming videos from a variety of disciplines. It is all free for you to use in your class.
Linking to some of our resources can be confusing though. Licensing, authentication and DRM make linking to library material harder than bookmarking a web site. Many of our databases create temporary urls that only exist during the search session. Grabbing the link will take others to an error message.
Continue reading “The missing link: sharing library permalinks with your classes”
Adding premium content to your Canvas course – Nice! Adding premium content while paying nothing? Awesome! Adding free premium content to your course from a simple search without ever leaving Canvas? Tremendously excellent! Use the D’Youville Library’s new Curriculum Builder tool to take advantage of all the library has to offer and forge a course full of high quality material like research articles, ebooks and video.
Continue reading “Creating a more interesting class just got easier!”
