UM students, faculty and staff have access to the Foundation Center and a multitude of other grants and foundation resources at the Library's Grants and Fundraising guide here: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/grants.
You may also be interested in registering for one of the grants and funding workshops listed in this earlier blogpost: http://artdes-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/10/grants-and-funding-workshops-for.html
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Electronic Lunch at the Dude
It’s held every Friday at Noon in Design Lab 1 in the Duderstadt Center.
Bring your own lunch and your own projects, or work with our weekly features. A modest collection of micro-controllers, sensors and motors is available for in-lab use or for check-out with special permission.
For further information see: electroniclunch.wordpress.com
Art & Exhibits at the Library
Remarks by James Hilton at 4:30 PM in the Gallery
On View highlights student work in the Libraries, including the new Afrokilt exhibit in the Clark Library by former Stamp's student Sally Mae Volkmann, charming animations in the presentation area of the Gallery, and the Soundscapes of Childhood exhibit in the Gallery.
Literature Review Workshops
Do you need to conduct a literature review for your proposal, dissertation, or research article? Are you concerned about how you’ll find the best articles, how to keep track of your findings, or ways to improve your search process? This workshop will guide participants through the steps that will help them search the literature to see what research has been done on a particular topic and how best to keep track of what they find along the way. Participants will learn about the different kinds of literature reviews, how to judge which are the more important writings on the topic, as well as what are some of the more specialized sources to check in their specific fields. Best of all, they will learn when they can stop searching!
Literature Review for the Social Sciences
Wednesday, 10/30, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Literature Review for the Humanities
Monday, 11/11, 3:00-5:00pm
For additional information on Library instruction and workshops see:
New International Engagement Guide for Stamps Students
Sandra Wiley and Annette Haines recently collaborated on a new international engagement guide for Stamps students. The guide offers useful information about the Stamp's international requirement, passports, health, safety, and separate resources tabs for Bangalore, Copenhagen and Florence. The guide will be continually updated. Let us know what you think.
You can check it out at:
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/ARTDESinternational
You can check it out at:
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/ARTDESinternational
Thursday, October 3, 2013
ARTstor training on Youtube
For those of you who may not have discovered it yet, ARTstor is a vast database of high quality digital images from hundreds of world class museums and institutions. University of Michigan users should link to ARTstor through any MLibrary website or directly via this link: http://www.lib.umich.edu/database/link/9539
ARTstor has some very useful Youtube videos showing different aspects of the database such as registering, using folders and image groups, and exporting to PowerPoint. Check them out on the ARTstor Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/artstor.
ARTstor has some very useful Youtube videos showing different aspects of the database such as registering, using folders and image groups, and exporting to PowerPoint. Check them out on the ARTstor Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/artstor.
What is LectureTools and is it right for me and my class?
Have you heard the name "LectureTools" or seen it in the CTools list of tools and wondered what it is? The Faculty Exploratory and LSA Instructional Support Services are hosting two types of events to help you answer that question. First, we have a demonstration and discussion about what the tool is, the impact it can have on your class, and how it is currently being used here at the University. Second, if you decide you would like to try this tool, we'll have some hands-on workshops that will help you get ready for winter semester. To register for either, please visit http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/lecturetools/
Descriptions of the sessions are below. As always, if you have questions about these or other tools, or would like to be removed from this email group, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools
Tuesday, 10/22, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
If you have a large lecture section, it is sometimes difficult to know which concepts are confusing to students and if they are actively engaged with the material during class. Using LectureTools can be an effective way to directly involve students and solicit their feedback while you are teaching. Activated via your CTools site, this tool allows you to ask multiple choice or free response questions, and lets students flag slides they find confusing, submit questions, and take notes that are synchronized with the lecture slides.
In this demonstration, you will hear from University faculty members who are currently using LectureTools, and how it has impacted their teaching. This demonstration is a broad overview of the tool, focusing on why and how you could use it in your classes; later on in the semester there will be “hands-on” workshops that will get you ready to use LectureTools during the Winter Term.
Getting Started with LectureTools
Wednesday, 10/30, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm OR Thursday, 11/14, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Now that you’ve attended the "Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools" demonstration and understand how LectureTools can enhance your students’ classroom experience, it’s time to get your lectures ready for Winter term. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll start as “students” in a class, so you can experience what LectureTools could be like for your students. After that, we’ll move to the instructor’s side, starting with a tour of the interface. You’ll then learn how to import PowerPoint presentations and insert interactive slides. We’ll discuss the instructor dashboard, how to read and answer student questions, and strategies for successful presentations. Finally, we’ll work in the assessment feature of LectureTools and discuss how to produce reports generated from student responses.
We strongly encourage you to attend the “Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools” demonstration session to see if LectureTools is right for you and your course.
Descriptions of the sessions are below. As always, if you have questions about these or other tools, or would like to be removed from this email group, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools
Tuesday, 10/22, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
If you have a large lecture section, it is sometimes difficult to know which concepts are confusing to students and if they are actively engaged with the material during class. Using LectureTools can be an effective way to directly involve students and solicit their feedback while you are teaching. Activated via your CTools site, this tool allows you to ask multiple choice or free response questions, and lets students flag slides they find confusing, submit questions, and take notes that are synchronized with the lecture slides.
In this demonstration, you will hear from University faculty members who are currently using LectureTools, and how it has impacted their teaching. This demonstration is a broad overview of the tool, focusing on why and how you could use it in your classes; later on in the semester there will be “hands-on” workshops that will get you ready to use LectureTools during the Winter Term.
Getting Started with LectureTools
Wednesday, 10/30, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm OR Thursday, 11/14, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Now that you’ve attended the "Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools" demonstration and understand how LectureTools can enhance your students’ classroom experience, it’s time to get your lectures ready for Winter term. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll start as “students” in a class, so you can experience what LectureTools could be like for your students. After that, we’ll move to the instructor’s side, starting with a tour of the interface. You’ll then learn how to import PowerPoint presentations and insert interactive slides. We’ll discuss the instructor dashboard, how to read and answer student questions, and strategies for successful presentations. Finally, we’ll work in the assessment feature of LectureTools and discuss how to produce reports generated from student responses.
We strongly encourage you to attend the “Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools” demonstration session to see if LectureTools is right for you and your course.
Grants and funding workshops for graduate students and faculty
Finding Funding for Graduate Students
Need funding to do your dissertation work? Perhaps a fellowship or scholarship for graduate school? A graduate internship over the summer? This hands-on workshop will present an overview of several academic funding databases available to you that can assist in getting research, fellowship, and other grants. University members have online access to resources that list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities from the Federal government, foundations, professional societies, and other sources. We will do hands-on work with the various resources, learn how to develop sound search strategies, and learn about establishing email alerts for new grants.
Finding Funding for Faculty Research & Projects
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online and human resources at UM that can assist you in getting research grants. Online sources list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases, search strategies, establish email alerts, and create and use individual expertise profiles.
Need funding to do your dissertation work? Perhaps a fellowship or scholarship for graduate school? A graduate internship over the summer? This hands-on workshop will present an overview of several academic funding databases available to you that can assist in getting research, fellowship, and other grants. University members have online access to resources that list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities from the Federal government, foundations, professional societies, and other sources. We will do hands-on work with the various resources, learn how to develop sound search strategies, and learn about establishing email alerts for new grants.
- October 7, 4-5:30 pm
- October 23, 12-1:30 pm
- November 14, 8-9:30 am
Finding Funding for Faculty Research & Projects
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online and human resources at UM that can assist you in getting research grants. Online sources list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases, search strategies, establish email alerts, and create and use individual expertise profiles.
- October 9, 2-4 pm
- November 6, 10 am - 12noon
- November 19, 8:30-10:30 am
- December 4, 12-2 pm
New space available for groups to meet and engage with library materials
This new space was recently created in the lower level of the Duderstadt Center near the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections room. Over the past several years, interest in special collections materials like artists' books has increased the number of classes visiting the collections. The new space offers a quiet, bright and flexible environment for special materials instruction and viewing. In addition, the space will be equipped with an 80" flat screen monitor allowing for demonstrations of databases and other digital content. When not in use for classroom visits, the room will be open for group study. The room will soon be entered into the Duderstdt Center Room Scheduling Online Reservation System at http://www.dc.umich.edu/scheduling/scheduling.htm so that other groups can book the space for meetings or events. If you have any questions about this space, please contact Annette Haines, the Art & Design Field Librarian at ahaines@umich.edu.
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