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College Ready, College Bound
We convened a group of local
and campus constituents
as an advisory board, with
representatives from IUPUI
School of Education, Ivy Tech
Community College, Indiana
Department of Education, K-12
schools in Marion County,
and IUPUI University library
board members. We utilized
their expertise and community
connections to create successful
and sustainable partnerships by
focusing on:
• Commitment to build upon
the strengths and resources of
the K-12 school librarians,
teachers, administrators, and
community members.
• Commitment to addressing
problems and focusing on
positives, and promotion of a
process that actively addresses
social inequalities
• Ongoing attention to involvement
of all members across phases of
the research, which meant active,
inclusive, and numerous
meetings and conversations with
the school librarians, and many
opportunities for feedback
• Dissemination of findings and
knowledge gained to all partnersIUPUI University Library; Central Indiana Community Foundation; Cantaloupe T
Lifelong learning: Moving beyond the library degree?
Describes the decision to continue taking courses towards an advanced degree, as well as personal or professional factors in motivation for this decision
Now you see it: Transparency in instruction and assessment
ACRL 2013 Poster presentationNILOA (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment) offers those faculty, administrators, peer institutions, and librarians a wealth of information concerning all forms and types of assessment on a campus. Librarians can utilize this framework on their own website to show connections between learning, assessment, and institutional goals, while also building relationships with faculty, administration, and other campus constituents that have an interest in assessment documentation
Project Based Learning: Faculty and Librarian Partners in Pedagogy
This [poster]session will describe the presenter’s experience in collaborating with K-12 schools and the Buck Institute for Education in creating a librarian track for the local PBL institute, as well as teaching graduate students information literacy skills through a PBL unit. In addition, the presenter will offer tips on collaborating with faculty to incorporate project-based learning/inquiry strategies and learning experiences, as well as “lessons learned” in the planning and implementation stages.This [poster]session will define Project-Based Learning (PBL), including the methodology, structure, resources, and ideas for collaboration between teachers, faculty and librarians. Project-Based Learning provides for unique, effective, and authentic classroom experience for students at all levels (K-12 and higher education). There is a strong research component in PBL units, which gives librarians the opportunity to engage in deeper and interconnected pedagogy, including the integration of information literacy skills and standards. When students are presented with a real-world, authentic problem to solve, they are empowered in their learning. Through this critical thinking process, they discover resources including new and emerging technologies, connections in their community, as well as recognizing reliable, authoritative resources. The curricular restructuring and adaptation of this type of instructional process involves extensive planning, collaboration, and training, but students report a higher level of understanding, deeper acquisition of knowledge, and personal investment when involved in PBL. Librarians are integral in providing the resources and supporting the research needs of both students and teachers when developing a PBL unit
Library Support of Teaching and Learning
Does the library play a part in your curriculum, instruction, assessment, or research? How would you describe information literacy, and what would you want your students to know or be able to apply? This presentation will look at how the library can support various aspects of your teaching, integrating information literacy through the ACRL Information Literacy Framework. Additionally, support for scholarly publishing and research assistance available for faculty and graduate students will be discussed
Periodically driven Taylor-Couette turbulence
We study periodically driven Taylor-Couette turbulence, i.e. the flow
confined between two concentric, independently rotating cylinders. Here, the
inner cylinder is driven sinusoidally while the outer cylinder is kept at rest
(time-averaged Reynolds number is ). Using particle image
velocimetry (PIV), we measure the velocity over a wide range of modulation
periods, corresponding to a change in Womersley number in the range . To understand how the flow responds to a given modulation, we
calculate the phase delay and amplitude response of the azimuthal velocity.
In agreement with earlier theoretical and numerical work, we find that for
large modulation periods the system follows the given modulation of the
driving, i.e. the system behaves quasi-stationary. For smaller modulation
periods, the flow cannot follow the modulation, and the flow velocity responds
with a phase delay and a smaller amplitude response to the given modulation. If
we compare our results with numerical and theoretical results for the laminar
case, we find that the scalings of the phase delay and the amplitude response
are similar. However, the local response in the bulk of the flow is independent
of the distance to the modulated boundary. Apparently, the turbulent mixing is
strong enough to prevent the flow from having radius-dependent responses to the
given modulation.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
A Picture is Worth 150 Words: Using Wordle to Assess Library Instruction
Tired of the one minute paper and other quick and dirty assessment tools? By using word clouds, students can demonstrate their grasp of library fundamentals and information literacy concepts in less than 10 minutes. Wordle [http://www.wordle.net] is an extremely user-friendly online tool that provides an active learning activity for students and allows librarians to rapidly evaluate what students recall from the instruction session. Use it for quick assessment of student comprehension of library jargon or compare the students\u27 Wordle clouds with information literacy standards or the main points of your instruction. It\u27s free, flexible, and looks great on a t-shirt
Toekijken of toezichthouden?
Hoe heeft het zover kunnen komen? Wat kunnen we van deze ervaring leren? Twee regelmatig terugkerende vragen in reactie op misstanden, rampen en langdurige overtredingen. Zo begon ook het artikel in dit vakblad over de Barneveldse insecticidenproducent Denka medio vorig jaar. Als de VROM-Inspectie in december 2005 constateert dat de veiligheidssituatie bij Denka ernstig tekortschiet,
duurt het nog ruim drie jaar voordat de situatie bij het bedrijf in januari 2009 enigszins verbetert. Terugblikkend in HandHaving, blijkt Denka echter niet het enige voorbeeld te zijn waarin de overtredingen langdurig aanhouden. Tijd om de zaken waarover Handhaving publiceerde eens aan een nadere analyse te onder-
werpen. Wat zijn de belangrijkste factoren die eraan hebben bijgedragen dat de overtredingen zo lang voortduurden
Isostaticity, auxetic response, surface modes, and conformal invariance in twisted kagome lattices
Model lattices consisting of balls connected by central-force springs provide
much of our understanding of mechanical response and phonon structure of real
materials. Their stability depends critically on their coordination number .
-dimensional lattices with are at the threshold of mechanical
stability and are isostatic. Lattices with exhibit zero-frequency
"floppy" modes that provide avenues for lattice collapse. The physics of
systems as diverse as architectural structures, network glasses, randomly
packed spheres, and biopolymer networks is strongly influenced by a nearby
isostatic lattice. We explore elasticity and phonons of a special class of
two-dimensional isostatic lattices constructed by distorting the kagome
lattice. We show that the phonon structure of these lattices, characterized by
vanishing bulk moduli and thus negative Poisson ratios and auxetic elasticity,
depends sensitively on boundary conditions and on the nature of the kagome
distortions. We construct lattices that under free boundary conditions exhibit
surface floppy modes only or a combination of both surface and bulk floppy
modes; and we show that bulk floppy modes present under free boundary
conditions are also present under periodic boundary conditions but that surface
modes are not. In the the long-wavelength limit, the elastic theory of all
these lattices is a conformally invariant field theory with holographic
properties, and the surface waves are Rayleigh waves. We discuss our results in
relation to recent work on jammed systems. Our results highlight the importance
of network architecture in determining floppy-mode structure.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
A Scanner Darkly: Retooling the Tools for Environmental Scans
ACRL 2013 Conference posterSee how a small group of librarians gathered partners across campus to conduct an environmental scan of their instructional program. We took a long workbook (Analyzing Your Instruction Environment, published by ACRL) and transformed a large checklist of data into surveys, focus groups and reports while bringing in stakeholders and disseminating results
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