Compas http://www.compas.infoclio.ch/ is a project og infoclio.ch, which is a Swiss subject portal for the discipline of history. Compas is designed to be a resource for developing history students' information literacy and searching skills. The material is produced in two languages: French and German. I looked at the German version as my German is better than my French.
There are three themes: developing your own digital skills and support for your studies (e.g. using computers to help manage your work, take notes etc.); Researching topics in your discipline; Developing your network (including using social media, blogs and publication). For each there are subsections with advice (text is kept short), links, and the possibility to download the material in pdf.
For each theme there is a short video on the (mostly unfortunate) experience of a history student, done like silent films. Below is one of them (with German text, but I don't think you need to understand German to see what's going on). I think they are meant to convey "avoid being an idiot like Sophie" but I wonder whether it might rather say "you are doomed to fail". However the videos are professionally done and the rest of the resource is nice. But ... spot the librarian stereotype!!
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Updated SMILE
SMILE was developed as a module which "develops study skills and employability skills, integrated with students academic work." There is now an updated version: SMILE 2.0 (SMILE= Study Methods and Information Literacy Exemplars). It is available as a set of zipped files in the JORUM open respository, advertised as a "Web based information literacy training package. Includes study skills and new modules on ethics, research design, group work. Version 2 of package, August 2012" http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/17355
Photo by Sheila Webber: tips of corn plants, Hellingly, September 2012
Photo by Sheila Webber: tips of corn plants, Hellingly, September 2012
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