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FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Credibility Commons Why Gaming is Working in Higher Ed By David DeHaven and Susan Ferebee As a planet, we spend 7 billion hours a week playing video and computer games, and about 5 million of us are playing an average of 45 hours a week. It is no surprise that educators are taking a serious look at gaming theory and “badging” in the classroom to increase student engagement and motivation. Top tech institutions such as MIT acknowledge that the persistence, risk-taking, attention to detail, and problem solving commonly observed among game players are all “behaviors that would be regularly demonstrated at school.” Keeping students engaged is critical to a successful learning experience, and when we think about how to do this, a logical approach is to look at scenarios where people easily remain engaged. The theories that explain what keeps players focused on games can be applied to keeping students involved in school-related tasks. Showing the user’s status in the community is also motivational. Gaming as a Teaching Model Initial Results

21st Century Information Fluency Home > Evaluation > Assessment The IMSA Evaluation Wizard tool offers ten criteria, in the form of questions, to help students assess the credibility of a web resource. The Wizard provides an interactive form to be filled in. • To begin, type (or paste) the URL of the website being evaluated into the box; • Then type the answers to at least three selected evaluation questions in the text box on each page, as directed; • Produce a one page evaluation report by clicking Print Report and printing the page, or • Copy the summary report to a word processing document to create a permanent file (the Wizard does not save a copy) • Review students' Summary pages to gain insights into their ability to evaluate digital information. Grade level suggestions: Starting in Grades 4 and 5, involve students in evaluating Author, Publisher and Accuracy. Word Document Option Evaluation Wizard text (MS Word) Link to 21CIF Evaluation Wizard Download this list

Tutorials Get Started on Flipboard Welcome to Flipboard, your personal magazine. Here are tips on how to get started. You can watch our quick video tutorial, or read more below. 1. Available for free in the App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Blackberry World, Amazon App Store and Nook App Store. 2. When you launch Flipboard for the first time, swipe past the “Welcome to Flipboard” screen. On the next page, tap to subscribe to different topics from Tech and News to Style and Film. 3. After setting up your Flipboard, you will arrive at the Table of Contents—the “front page” that houses all your favorite content. 4. Explore the Content Guide for hundreds of recommendations for what to read, look at, or listen to. Subscribe to what you love to customize your Flipboard. 5. Add your social networks to quickly browse newsfeeds from that network. 6. It’s easy to share the amazing content you come across on Flipboard. Creating Your Own Magazines 1. 2. 3. You can also select a cover for your magazine. 4.

Library: Databases Accessibility Issues Library Services > Help and Support > Accessing resources > Disabled user support > Databases accessibility issues Introduction This page provides suggestions for overcoming known accessibility issues with some of the databases the Open University Library subscribes to. We will continue to add information to this page. If you have accessibility problems with any online resources please let us know by contacting the Library Helpdesk The instructions mainly relate to screen readers with some information for keyboard only users. ABC-CLIO eBook collection Instructions for screen reader users: This database defaults to listing the ebooks available in full text on the home page using the book title as the link to full text. Go to ABC-CLIO eBook collection Academic Library Instructions for screen reader and screen magnification users: The full text on this database is not accessible to screen reader users. Go to Academic Library Instructions for screen reader and keyboard users: ACM Digital Library

Juxtapost - All your favorite things, side-by-side. philosophi.ca : MLA Digital Work This area is for an ongoing project by members of the MLA Committee on Information Technology. We are experimenting with a wiki as a way of developing materials to assist in the evaluation of digital work for tenure and promotion. Note: This site has now been taken on by the MLA with other interested parties. Some of the resources developed are: Types of Digital Work - A list of types of academic digital work with thoughts as to how they might be presented for evaluation and how they might then be evaluated.

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