N/S Walkway is one of the routes between Central and EPS libraries.

Details of the closure on Intercom blog
https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/intercom/2016/05/19/engineering-northsouth-walkway-closure/

There will Library tours for two groups of first-year music students this afternoon (Tuesday 23rd) between 3–5 pm.

As this is a silent study area, notices will be posted to let others on Level 6 know.

If there are any complaints on AskLIVE (as occurred last year), let people know it is a sanctioned library-teaching event and won’t happen again this year!

The North-South walkway is open again (the quickest route from Central Library to EPS Library.

Relevant if you are walking between EPS and Central libraries…

“A number of works need to be undertaken in Plant Room 12 which currently forms part of the north/south walkway through the engineering precinct. Because these works necessitate closure of the plant room, they are being undertaken during mid-term break when the majority of students are absent from campus.

The plant room will be closed from Saturday 22 August until Sunday 6 September, and alternative access will be signposted during the period. All other areas around the plant room, that formed part of the north/south walkway, will remain accessible and the walkway will be back in operation when lectures resume Monday 7 September.”

http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/learningresources/projects/news/

The Learning and Teaching portfolio group trialed a virtual meeting this afternoon (Friday 15th). I contacted the Audio Visual department and booked Wheki 350B and Psyc 164. Wheki350b seats about 5-7 and Pscy164 about 9 people easily. Both rooms would fit more people if you were friendly. The meeting went really smoothly. Nick Calvert (AV Technician) set the rooms up for us and was in Wheki350b to show us how to adjust sound etc. At first it felt a little strange, but this did not last long. After a few minutes, it was like being in the same room. If we had a laptop with us, we could have a set up to allow us to show the computer between rooms. Today, there was the real advantage of not having to travel between the two sites with the weather being so terrible. If anyone is interested in investigating using these rooms for between campus meetings, feel free to have a chat with Nick, Alison McI or Kathryn. It was our first try at having a meeting using this technology and we all thought it worked well.

Kathryn

Hi all,

There have been a few people (or just the same gal over and over?) asking about how to reference a pre-publication of a Waitangi Tribunal document from LEARN for an assignment due at 5pm today. I had someone ask me about this yesterday and this is how I think it can go.

Waitangi Tribunal. (2010). Te reo Mâori (Waitangi Tribunal Report 262: Pre-publication). Retrieved from http://www.learn.canterbury.ac.nz

Probably, to be really correct, we should use WAI262, but the academic has spelt it out in the information given to the students…so I went with that.

The student I dealt with was very very worried about the referencing.

Kathryn

We have an assignment rearing its head (due 8 Oct). Students need to locate 5 recent research articles (preferably NZ) on either the pressure to prepare tamariki academically for school; the commercialization of early childhood education; or the professional status of early childhood education. The commercialization aspect appears to not be too flush with research.

If you get a question on AskLive, these are some suggestions for search terms on MultiSearch:

For the ECE sector:

“early childhood”
Preschool
Childcare
“Child care”
“Day care”

For the commercialisation aspect:

Commerc*
Business*
“for profit”
“private sector”

Does anyone have any other ideas about business-related terms that might be useful?

Kathryn

TEDU305 new assignment

There is a new stage 3 Education paper this year that looks at the history of early childhood education. There are about 60-70 students doing the paper (including distance).
They have three options for the assignment and I have put this information below (Click on Read More ). We might start getting a few questions about this assignment on AskLive. Students have had a brief one hour library session covering some of the material they might need to locate.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with Kathryn, Kim or Glen 🙂

Continue reading Education assignment about to start →

Thanks to the people who picked up AskLive when Glen and I were showing how it worked to the Year 1 Education students in our classes today 🙂

Kathryn

There is an Early Childhood assignment due this week. Students are needing to reference: Kei tua o te pae: Assessment for learning: Early childhood exemplars

This is quite a complex item. There are several books within a large folder. Each book has been published at different times. Some books have separate authors and others do not. Each book starts pagination with page 1. ( *Sigh* )

If you get any questions about how to reference this on AskLive, there are exemplars on the Education Subject Guide.

pathway: Library homepage>Subject guides>Education>Referencing
url: http://canterbury.libguides.com/content.php?pid=23635&sid=173004

Kathryn