Agenda
Introduction
- Amanda Bosch, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship
What is Niche Academy?
- What is Niche Academy?
- Check out the tutorials embedded on our website
- Demo of Niche Academy Tutorials in Blackboard
- Can you think of tutorials you would like to have created for your class in Niche Academy?
- Check out some of the tutorials that you can already select and add to your class as needed.
- Discover additional resources to use with students
- Credo Reference – demo and discuss some of the ways Credo Reference can get students started with research:
- Sample Idea: Have students create a topic map for their research topic generating ideas related to their topic then use Credo Reference to compare the topic map they created with the Credo concept web on the same topic. Are there ideas they had not thought of related to their topic? Did they think of things that are not represented in the concept web on Credo?
- Links to other database resources
- Reference sources – helping students differentiate the types of sources that are needed for their research, papers and projects.
- CQ Researcher
- Why is this more reliable than MSM sources?
- Topics lists
- Chronologies
- Pros/Cons
- ProQuest Research Companion
- Find Information
- Search Aid
- Evaluate Information
- Source Evaluation Aid
- Use Information
- Citation Builder
- Revision Aid
- Videos can be embedded in your LMS using the Embed code
- Learning Express
- College Success Skills
- Career Prep Practice Tests and Ebooks
- Grad School Placement Tests and Grad School Finder
- Q& A
- Don’t forget that we can help create or revise a Research Guide for your Content area and include links to specific databases and/or tutorials from Niche Academy
Post-session Survey and Follow-Up Questions Exit Ticket