In addition to our own exam-papers page, a useful site for students in CHEM courses is the LEARN “Chemistry Undergraduate” pages. These include past tests and exams (and for 100-level courses, answers too).
CHEM students should already be enrolled in the ‘course’ and see it when they log into LEARN. There is also a link to it “Past Tests (via LEARN)” on the Chemistry Subject Guide http://canterbury.libguides.com/chem
Tēnā anō koutou,
Please see Professor Angus Macfarlane’s email re. Māori Research Hui for next month. Rā and I were fortunate to present to them on behalf of the Library last month. His feedback has been included. Let me know if you would like to attend or email Lisa Beardsley directly.
Kia ora koutou
April was the second of our monthly Māori Research Hui for 2018. Thank you to all who attended and participated – we had a good muster in March and last month the numbers grew again. Obviously word is getting around, so please continue to spread the word, and bring a colleague or postgraduate student whose research interests are aligned to a Māori or Indigenous kaupapa. Make a regular diary entry, Māori Research Hui 12 noon fourth Thursday every month.
Great to have Adjunct Professor Wally Penetito on campus and sharing golden experiences with UC researchers.
Thank you to the librarians for an informative and research-geared presentation. Waitangi reminded us that the library is indeed the ‘heart’ of research-related resources. The librarians’ presentation reiterated how generous they are with time and accessibility. Nei rā hoki te mihi maioha ki ngā kaimahi o te Whare Pukapuka.
The next Hui will be Thursday 24 May. Nau mai, haere mai, hoki mai anō kia whakaputa ake ana ngā kōrero me ngā whakaaro e pa ana ki tā tātou nei mahi rangahau.
Program for next Hui:
12.00 – 12.10: Karakia, Mihi
12.10 – 12.40: Jessica Maclean and Hamuera Kahi – Māui Lab
12.40 – 1.15: Garrick Cooper – Vision Mātauranga: Observations and experiences in two National Science Challenges (Ageing Well and Better Start)
1.15 – 1.20 Planning for next hui, 22 June
1.20 Refreshments in Te Ao Mārama Foyer
Please forward this email to anyone you think may have been inadvertently omitted. And, bring another person with you.
For catering purposes please rsvp to email lisa.beardsley@canterbury.ac.nz
No reira, ngā mihi ki a koutou katoa i raro i te manaakitanga o te runga rawa.
Angus
Dr Angus Hikairo Macfarlane
Professor of Maori Research
The URL found in the heading of an expanding box (has a red + at the right) or of a tab can be used to link directly to that box or tab.
Box examples, http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/its/printing-and-copying/#collapse16282 and http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/its/computer-workrooms/#collapse22664
Tab example http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/its/accessing-your-email/#16349
Linking like this didn’t work when the new websites were first rolled out (back then such a link just sent you to the page as a whole), but now that it does it could come in handy when directing students to relevant information on AskLIVE or via email. I’ve tried it out successfully on Chrome, Firefox and IE.
At the end of 2017, Echo360 was upgraded to a new cloud-based system. All historical course recordings were transferred, and 2018 lecture capture requests are scheduled into the new system.
The old Echo360 system will be decommissioned at the end of March. Before this happens, it is important that teaching staff:
Instructions on updating EchoLinks can be found at Echo360 Help: Managing Recordings
Echo360 can be accessed from the Course Recordings block on LEARN course pages.
If any historical lecture recordings are missing or not working correctly, a working copy can usually be transferred from the old system. This needs to be done before the old system is decommissioned.
New Echo360 familiarisation
Before Semester 1, interactive sessions are now available in mid-February. For more information and registration, go to http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/tst/
Any questions, or training requests, can be sent to e-Learning Support via Assyst Self Service.
Background
Several members of the LTR team are working on the Social Sciences & Humanities Research (SSHR) Project. The SSHR Project is based on a University of Minnesota Libraries (2006) study into the research behaviours of academic staff and postgraduate students in the social sciences and humanities. For us this translates to our College of Arts. The findings from the study will be used to develop our academic support for academics and postgraduate students.
The first project milestones have been met: we have completed a literature review, received ethics approval, and conducted a focus group of arts subject librarians and specialist librarians.
The team is now ready to launch into the data collection phase of the project. This involves interviews with academic staff and focus groups with postgraduate students, along with a survey or all College of Arts researchers.
What we’ve learnt
The processes involved in a research project are providing real learning opportunities for the team:
We’d like to share some of what we’ve done, some of our findings, and some lessons, with you, so we’re organising a PD session for Library staff. Stay tuned for details!
“One Way to Fight Fake News” from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://www.chronicle.com/article/one-way-to-fight-fake-news/241726
Excerpt (emphasis mine):
Why did the fact-checkers prevail where students at a top college and historians — who, as the report notes, “evaluate sources for a living” — stumbled? They read differently. The students and historians tended to read “vertically,” the report notes, delving deeply into a website in their efforts to determine its credibility. That, the researchers point out, is more or less the approach laid out in many checklists designed to help students use the internet well, which tend to suggest looking at particular features of a website to evaluate its trustworthiness.
The fact checkers, in contrast, read “laterally,” turning to sources beyond the website in question — and not treating them all as being equally reliable, either. They succeeded, the report says, “not because they followed the advice we give to students. They succeeded because they didn’t.”
News release from ProQuest at
http://www.proquest.com/about/news/2017/ProQuest-Dissertations-Now-Discoverable-in-Google-Scholar.html
There has been an update to Adobe Connect. If you are having trouble loading Adobe Connect you may need to update the Add-in.
The Add-in can be downloaded from Adobe here:
If you are on a UC managed computer the latest update should be installed automatically, but can also be installed from the Software Center.
More information on the Adobe Connect Meeting Addin can be found on the Adobe Website.
Recently I’ve noticed there have been questions from students asking about referencing the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is a multilateral treaty, and you can find exactly how to reference it on our APA style pages under “Legal Resources (cases, Acts, treaties).”
The direct link is http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/services/ref/apa/legal.shtml#treaties (at least until the Library website changes).
A paper on how the Library supports research at UC can be found here. It has been to Library Committee and is due to go to Research Committee and SMT.
Have a read. If you have any comments that you feel might improve it, please email me, Stuart, or comment below.