Posts categorized “instruction”

Scientific data management presentation

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A presentation for the Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar Series at UC Berkeley on April 16, 2012.





Instructional guide for scientific data management

Here is an instructional guide I developed for scientific data management:

Directed at Berkeley graduate students and researchers, this guide divides data management into six activities and explains best practices for each one. The guide includes short videos, links, and tips that can be used independently or as part of a larger data management literacy program.

This guide complements the page on “Preparing Data Management Plans for NSF Grant applications.”





Sharing high-quality and well-organized scientific data and information

Here is my guest lecture for LBSC 670 Organization of Information at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland.





Chemical information literacy instruction for inorganic chemistry

Here is the workbook for an instructional session on finding inorganic chemical information.

 

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This is the second year of teaching this class and we now cover Reaxys instead of Gmelin and have a more detailed exploration of Boolean operators. There were 2 separate sessions – each 4 hours long – for a total of 11 students.






Welcome to the Chemistry Library! (2011 – 2012)

A new academic year has begun, and we welcomed new Chemistry and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering students to the library.

This year we distilled our library orientation to 10 short tips in order to allow more time for a human bingo icebreaker game and more  time for a discussion of personal success in graduate life. The slides from these sessions will be re-used in the rotating news and instruction slide show on our homepage.

Download a text copy of the ten library tips.

The guide to the Chemistry Library has also been updated. Of note is a discussion of open access publishing, its value, and some sources of financial support for publishing fees.

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We held a “library quiz” to encourage students to read the library guide. This is an online quiz with multiple choice questions about library use – and all answers may be found in the library guide. All completed quiz entries will be entered into a lottery for a student to win one of two $25 gift certificates to the Cal student store.

Finally, here are some statistics on the 5 one-hour orientation sessions conducted.

Date Audience Number of students
August 15, session 1 Graduate chemistry students 29
August 15, session 2 Graduate chemistry students 29
August 16 Graduate chemistry students 30
August 19 Graduate chemical and biomolecular engineering students 24
August 22 Undergraduate transfer students 20





Examining different types of scientific literature: an exercise

The instructional librarian from the Engineering Library and I taught a library orientation class for high school students participating in the Summer High-School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP) at UC Berkeley.

In one exercise, students visited  four different stations – each station displaying  examples of a different type of scientific literature.  The students reviewed the literature and responded to worksheet questions about how they would use those resources. We followed-up with a group discussion.

Here’s the activity worksheet used for this exercise along with the discussion plan.






Preparing data management plans for NSF grant applications

This guide was developed to help grant applicants follow the NSF policy for data management plans.

INTRODUCTION

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Data management planning guide (PDF)

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Adding images to PowerPoint slides

This is a 5 minute presentation for the Instructor Development Program Lightning Talks at UC Berkeley Library on December 14, 2010. It demonstrates the process of adding images to PowerPoint 2007 slides.

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Sharing academic and professional information through social media

This was a guest lecture and discussion for LIB 100 Information Literacy, an undergraduate class at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.

It was conducted as a live web conference and was 50 minutes long. The students were together in a classroom in North Carolina and I web conferenced in from California.

Here is the presentation transcript. (Download PDF copy)

Here is the presentation handout. (Download PDF copy)





Research information sharing and information synthesis

This was a guest lecture and discussion for LIB 100 Information Literacy, an undergraduate class at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.

It was conducted as a live web conference and was 50 minutes long. The students were together in a classroom in North Carolina and I web conferenced in from California.

Here is the presentation transcript. (Download PDF copy)

Here is the presentation handout. (Download PDF copy)