To prepare for this exercise, students do background reading (from journal articles selected by instructor) and participate in classroom lectures about various types of qualitative and quantitative paleoclimate data (including rock/sed. type, stable isotopes, and fluid inclusions). Then, they are given the assignment and asked to complete it on their own (or in groups of two). The assignment consists of four paleotemperature curves. One curve is from the Vostok ice core of Antarctica and another represents the GRIP ice core from Greeenland (Jouzel et al., 1987, 1993; Chapellaz et al., 1997). Two halite cores, one from Death Valley and one from Chile, are also represented (Lowenstein et al., 1998, 1999; Hein, 2000). Students answer written questions that ask them to identify coldest and warmest times in the past 150,000 years, that ask them if cores can be correlated, that ask them if they can distinguish local, regional, and global warming and cooling trends. They are also asked how to better resolve paleoclimate data from this time period. The final questions ask students how confident they would feel about using this data to make paleoclimate predictions into the future. After the students have completed in turned in their assignment, we have a class discussion about the exercise, using the questions to guide us. This discussion can be supplemented with predictions from climate models and explanations of different types of paleoclimate data.

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This infographic covers the basics for using and reusing Creative Commons licensed works. An accessible infographic transcript is available at this url: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19t5E49ynzEAu4tMnYKCz9yeqkr-Jr6Vbu7iPT23V1HE/edit?usp=sharing

Created by a librarian and science communication professional for COVID Alliance Senior Support team of New Hampshire, an all volunteer effort supporting long term care and other senior residential facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This tool provides communication tips and links to resources for understanding and responding to vaccine hesitancy. Useful for any courses dealing with this topic or with misinformation and trust, such as librarianship, information literacy, public health, and behavioral science.

With the vast amount of information that can be found as quickly as a mouse click, it is easy to think that all information is free. However, information and access to it is paid for by someone and is not all created equally. In this lesson, students will explore the value and cost of information and learn how to make wise information decisions.

The “Retail Quest” virtual field trip app allows students to learn about systems modeling by observing Point-of-Sale (POS) systems at the Mall of America and applying what they’ve observed to systems models such as use case and activity diagrams.  The app allows students to visit mall locations virtually or physically, whichever they choose. You can use the Retail Quest app in your courses by importing it into your Learning Management System (LMS).   Figure 1. Introduction Screen in Retail Quest App

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This book uses a tidyverse approach to introduce various forms of visualization to assist in exploratory data analysis, and data visualization.

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The Washington State Department of Licensing contracted with the University of Washington to create an educational resource to provide an introduction to data stewardship principles. The course breaks down key concepts to familiarize individuals that are new to data stewardship and for those that wish to learn to think of data as an asset.

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NSCC Edition

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Download FREE digital formats or read online.This guide will help you become "web literate" by showing you how to become a discerning consumer of information. Learn how to search for information, evaluate content, and learn tips for separating facts from internet myths.

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ISBN: 978-1-990641-09-1

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The web gives us many strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer to the truth of a statement or image within seconds. For some reason we have decided not to teach students these specific techniques. As many people have noted, the web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven't taught our students those capabilities is it any surprise that propaganda is winning?

This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.

This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly. This guide will show you how to use date filters to find the source of viral content, how to assess the reputation of a scientific journal in less than five seconds, and how to see if a tweet is really from the famous person you think it is or from an impostor. It’ll show you how to find pages that have been deleted, figure out who paid for the website you’re looking at, and whether the weather portrayed in that viral video actual matches the weather in that location on that day. It’ll show you how to check a Wikipedia page for recent vandalism and how to search the text of almost any printed book to verify a quote. It’ll teach you to parse URLs and scan search result blurbs so that you are more likely to get to the right result on the first click. And it’ll show you how to avoid baking confirmation bias into your search terms.

This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.

We will show you how to use date filters to find the source of viral content, how to assess the reputation of a scientific journal in less than five seconds, and how to see if a tweet is really from the famous person you think it is or from an impostor.

We’ll show you how to find pages that have been deleted, figure out who paid for the web site you’re looking at, and whether the weather portrayed in that viral video actual matches the weather in that location on that day. We’ll show you how to check a Wikipedia page for recent vandalism, and how to search the text of almost any printed book to verify a quote. We’ll teach you to parse URLs and scan search result blurbs so that you are more likely to get to the right result on the first click. And we’ll show you how to avoid baking confirmation bias into your search terms.

This presentation uses Beyonce's album "Lemonade" as an example to explain the concept of open access. By framing "Lemonade" as an information resource, the presentation explores modes of and barriers to access and encourages participants to discuss questions of privilege, power, and equity in relation to access to information.

This module contains an 8-lesson curriculum to study greenhouse gases and global warming using data and visualizations. The students will summarize the issue in a mock debate or a presentation.

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North American ecosystems have fundamentally changed over the late Pleistocene and Holocene; from a system dominated by mammoths, to bison, to domestic livestock. Given the very different body size and herd formation of these 'ecosystem engineers', it is likely that animals influence soil structure, water tables, vegetation and other animals in the ecosystems. What has been the ecological influence of the continued 'downsizing' of the largest animals in the ecosystem?

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A brief history and introduction of Library and Information Science.

Reading List:
Bates, M. "The Invisible Substrate of Information Science." https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/substrate.html

Malik, H. "Relationship of Library Science with Information Science. Similarities and Differences." https://www.slideshare.net/Libcorpio/01-ls-vs-is

"Toronto's amazing science fiction library, the Merril Collection, has a new head librarian." http://boingboing.net/2017/08/07/only-a-mother.html

Alexander J.A.M. van Deursen, Jan A.G.M. van Dijk; Using the Internet: Skill related problems in users’ online behavior, Interacting with Computers, Volume 21, Issue 5-6, 1 December 2009, Pages 393–402, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2009.06.005

"Why Page 2 of Google Search Results is the Best Place to Hide a Dead Body." https://digitalsynopsis.com/tools/google-serp-design/

Graham, R. "Long Overdue: Why public libraries are finally eliminating the late-return fine." http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/02/librarians_are_realizing_that_overdue_fines_undercut_libraries_missions.html

An animated presentation explaining the basic concept of a subject heading. Created in MS Powerpoint (version 2205), it can be edited to add your own content or branding. Can also be exported to video, see example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HmkaMd_lgoScrIpt for narration is found in the notes section of each slide.

Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as intellectual property, copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing in a new light.Whose Book is it Anyway? is a timely and varied collection of essays. It asks us to reconceive our understanding of publishing, copyright and open access, and it is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of publishing.

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Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship was developed for anyone working in an academic library (or interested in working in an academic library) who may have a small or large role in supporting scholarly communication related services. The first two chapters, however, could serve as a basic introduction to Wikidata for anyone in academic librarianship. The remaining three chapters focus on a few topics that may be of more interest to those who work on open metadata, research metrics, and researcher profile projects.

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The word workaround has entered general English usage to refer to a makeshift method of overcoming or bypassing a problem, an example being the events that took place after an explosion on the Apollo 13 spacecraft in 1970. Until recently, the concept was limited primarily to technical contexts. This book explores the origins of workarounds, the challenges of identifying and managing them, and the potential benefits and risks involved. It discusses the use of workarounds in different settings and also takes a look at future challenges.

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Establish, run, and sustain an open working group

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The Working Group Guide is a resource for librarians, staff, and faculty who support or are supporting open education at their institution and are starting or running an open working group. This resource contains three sections to help users establish, run, and sustain a working group.

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The Working Group Guide is a resource for librarians, staff, and faculty who support or are supporting open education at their institution and are starting or running an open working group. The process of creating this resource involved gathering examples from post-secondary institutions, curating other available resources, and condensing them into a short, usable resource. This resource contains three sections to help users establish, run, and sustain a working group.

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This workshop will explore three related areas in relation to digital decluttering:Workplace functions - time-saving, targeted and minimising frustrationPersonal and workplace well-beingContextualised individual needs for digital work functions or spaces within larger organisation operations.A combination of reflection, evaluation and hands on practice are part of this digital decluttering and digital organisation workshop. 

This Workshop in a Box (WIB) contains everything you need to prepare for and deliver a workshop for faculty, researchers, and students on open access. After attending this workshop, participants will have a better understanding as to whether open access is right for them and their works and, if so, how to make their works openly accessible.

Hola, mi nombre es Xavier Vinicio Fonseca Meneses, soy militar de profesión y vivo en la ciudad de Sangolquí.
El presente recurso educativo abierto, servirá para contribuir en la construcción de conocimiento en lo referente a logística.

Like footprints in the sand, everything you do on the web leaves a trace.

Every time you open up your web browser or app, every search you make, every purchase you make, meal you order, every friend you have, everything you like, everyone you follow, every website you visit, app you download - basically, every time you browse the web - you leave a trace, a footprint. This data is then gathered by actors on the web who then combine it all to set up a profile of you, which is then sold to advertisers who can then target you with very specific ads of things you might want to purchase.

This resource uses the ad-model of the web as a backdrop to explain how the web works. Search results, recommendations, cookies, dark patterns... the web will hold no secrets to your students!

It will help them understand why and how data on their activity is gathered. This will help them make more informed choices in what websites and apps they decide to use.

A final section will focus on digital detox, steps students can take to reduce their digital footprint and screen time.

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LIB 3040 Information and Society. 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENG 2100. This course examines the nature, production, value and uses of information in historical perspective; the latest development in information technology; the ways information is produced and disseminated and how they affect business, politics, media, science, arts and culture; the growth of the “information society;” and major information policy issues. (Cross-listed with COM 3040 and PAF 3040)

A research guide about zines at East Los Angeles College, including information about how to find zines, teaching with zines, a zine assignment repository, and a selection of digitized zines. This research guide is in continual development.

The purpose of this activity is to inspire students to adopt structured methods when they explore and retrieve information. It is based on lab notebooking methods and on managing and documenting the flow of references in Zotero, a reference management software.

The first principle is based on a tree of collections to manage the references arriving in the Zotero library. Some basic methods are suggested and the students are invited to create their own. The second principle is based on standalone notes to document all the research process through online database, libraries and experts.

The goal of the coding notebook is to clean your .bib file to only contain references that you have cited in your manuscript. This cleaned .bib will then be used to generate a data table of full first names that will be used to query the probabilistic gender (Gender API) and race (ethnicolr) classifier. Proportions of the predicted gender for first and last author pairs (man/man, man/woman, woman/man, and woman/woman) will be calculated.

 Los libros electrónicos (e-books) permiten añadir contenido audiovisual e interactivo al texto e imágenes estáticas. Existen diversos formatos de libro electrónico (pdf, doc, odt, iBook...). En este mini-libro se describen las características del ePub 3, un estándar abierto y gratuito para la creación de libros electrónicos. Se pretende que el lector comprenda las oportunidades que ofrece esta especificación así como que aprenda a generar su propio contenido y validarlo frente al estándar ePub 3.

A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo o desenvolvimento de um produto educacional, denominado “e-Trilha”. Este consiste em um aplicativo colaborativo para uso em dispositivos móveis capaz de virtualizar trilhas educativas demonstrativas. O aplicativo resultou da pesquisa da trilha existente no Instituto Federal de Educação IFAM, Campus Tabatinga, considerada como Caso Único. O Aplicativo foi construído para ser uma ferramenta de uso prático em atividades acadêmicas no Ensino das Ciências Ambientais, podendo, portanto, ser incluído de forma efetiva na elaboração de estratégias metodológicas, tendo desta forma, grande contribuição à práxis pedagógica e ao processo de ensino e aprendizagem. O estudo apresenta passo a passo a construção do aplicativo, demonstrando detalhadamente, como se utilizou recursos e métodos norteadores oriundos da Engenharia de Software. A pesquisa foi fundamentada em preceitos teóricos da complexidade sistêmica sugerido por Morin (2000), o que possibilitou a compreensão de como se dá a construção do conhecimento a partir de uma visão complexa. Para tanto, foi considerado a subjetividade de cada indivíduo no processo de apreensão do conhecimento. Utilizou-se ainda da ideia de acoplamento estrutural sugerido por Matura e Varela (2001) como orientação para se compreender em sua essência, como estabelecer uma interação efetiva entre dois sistemas dissimilares, ou seja, o uso concreto da interoperabilidade sistêmica entre a trilha educativa demonstrativa (sistema real), e o e-Trilha (sistema computacional). Desta forma a pesquisa pode evidenciar como as Tecnologias de Digitais de Informação e Comunicação - TDICs podem contribuir para o Ensino das Ciências Ambientais.

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A chronological history of the development of enterprise search applications on a decade - by - decade basis from 1938 - 2022 starting with the use of punched cards to search through enterprise collections of scientific information and ending with the transition to the integration of artificial intelligence models into search applications.

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A chronological history of the development of enterprise search applications on a decade – by – decade basis from 1938 – 2022 starting with the use of punched cards to search through enterprise collections of scientific information and ending with the transition to the integration of artificial intelligence models into search applications.

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Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) face daily challenges and barriers in different sectors, especially the ICT field, which result in their exclusion from accessing learning opportunities and using digital technologies.
This training workshop is part of the Mada Academy ICT accessibility training program.
By taking this introductory training session, you will understand and learn the foundations of ICT Accessibility. You will be introduced to the broad scope of disability, accessibility, and the related legal landscape, and you will explore the key principles guiding accessible content creation.

The LLM course is divided into three parts:
🧩 LLM Fundamentals covers essential knowledge about mathematics, Python, and neural networks.
🧑‍🔬 The LLM Scientist focuses on building the best possible LLMs using the latest techniques.
👷 The LLM Engineer focuses on creating LLM-based applications and deploying them.

An overview on how to use A to Z World Food.  All videos are close captioned.

الاعتبارات الرئيسية لنفاذية التنسيقات الرقمية الشائعة ضمن الوحدة السادسة المحتوى الرقمي القابل للنفاذ

"يهدف الموقع الى ان يتعرف الطالب على الفيديو التفاعلي واستخداماته في مجالات عدهويحتوي الموقع على تاريخ ونشاه الفيديو التفاعلي ,وتعريف الفيديو التفاعلي ,واهم مكونات الفيديو التفاعلي , وخصائصه , واستخداماته , واهم مميزات وعيوب الفيديو التفاعلي

يهدف الموقع الى ان يتعرف الطالب على الفيديو التفاعلي واستخداماته في مجالات عدهويحتوي الموقع على تاريخ ونشاه الفيديو التفاعلي ,وتعريف الفيديو التفاعلي ,واهم مكونات الفيديو التفاعلي , وخصائصه , واستخداماته , واهم مميزات وعيوب الفيديو التفاعلي ." 

يهدف الموقع الى التعرف على الكاميرات الرقمية ويحتوى على انواع عديده من الكاميرات الرقمية المختلفة وامكانية الاستفادة منها في عدة مجالات.

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