Primary Source Sets Teachers Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence Speeches, correspondence, campaign materials and a map documenting the free and slave states in 1856 chronicle Lincoln’s rise to national prominence Alexander Hamilton Manuscripts, images, and historic newspapers document the life and accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the topic of American authors in the nineteenth century, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe. Top
MUSE MERLOT Welcome to Affordable Learning Solutions Do College Students Read? - With college back in session, we can welcome the bemoaning of college students nationwide on social media – students now encumbered with their: back-to-back-to-back class schedules, unending assignments and group projects, non-stop social lives, and their numerous, heavily marked-up textbook collection. It’s surely busy here, but we wanted to take a moment to see if students were putting down their textbooks for just a second, and picking up a book for pleasure. So we went to our panel of students to ask: “do you read for fun?” Frequency: YES! Around 65% of students read between 1 and 5 hours each week.13% of students are reading more than 6 hours each week.However, nearly 1 in 4 (22%) of students do not read at all for pleasure during the school year. So, what about during their winter and summer breaks. The answer is… also YES! Just 10% claim to never read during their winter and summer breaks. Format: In textbooks, we see some dissonance between preference for print and digital. Genre:
American college students say they would rather study with real books, not laptops — Quartz Last year, US customs officers seized over $4 million worth of fake chairs. It was the first year that the agency had ever seized containers-full of such unauthorized reproductions, thanks in part to a novel new training that’s turning port inspectors into design connoisseurs. Over the past 18 months, a five-year-old consortium of furniture manufacturers and design firms called BeOriginal has been training US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers to distinguish real Eames, Starck, and van der Rohe designs from fakes, among others. It’s working: According to CBP’s Intellectual Property Rights Seizure Statistics report (pdf, p.5), in 2016, customs officials confiscated 42 shipments of unauthorized replicas worth an estimated $4.2 million. In the same report, the CBP claimed that their “furniture enforcement efforts have helped to protect over 8,000 American jobs” a figure calculated according to workforce data provided to them by US furniture manufacturers. Imitating Eames
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PearlTrees: Save, Organize And Share Your Bookmarks, Notes And Photos 0inShare0inShare Social bookmarking sites are widely used by all kinds of users to organize, share and promote websites. These websites have recently been adding more interactive features which is making them similar to social networking platforms, while providing the utility to manage bookmarks at the same time. Pearltrees is a website for managing your digital library, where you can collect, organize, promote and share things that you like across the internet. At Pearltrees you can not only manage your bookmarked web pages, shared photos, add notes but also co-ordinate with other users to curate your collection sets and also find things that interest you. If you have used Pinterest, then you might find Pearltrees quite easy to use. Once signed in, you will be displayed with the option to connect your Facebook and Twitter account to instantly share items. After you add an item, it is immediately added to your tree and can be found by other users from the category that it belongs to.
Does Not Compute The High Cost of Low Technology Skills in the U.S.--and What We Can Do About It Although American millennials are the first generation of "digital natives"--that is, people who grew up with computers and the internet--they are not very tech savvy. That fact would probably come as a shock to most Americans--especially to millennials themselves. After all, millennials are glued to their phones, tablets, and other devices. Change the Equation's new analysis of results from the 2012 Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) reveales sobering new data on millennials' skills and attitudes. Download the brief (PDF) Read our methodology Download our infographic Tweet this infographic Infographic data sources Download and share individual data points from the infographic: Digital native does not mean tech savvy: Jpeg The U.S. ranks dead last: jpeg Tech savvy is an engine of opportunity: Jpeg What we don't know will hurt us: Jpeg Our children deserve better: Jpeg
Home - Open Educational Resources (OER) for Faculty - LibGuides at Wiley College The purpose of this guide is to aide in understanding, finding, and creating OER. The guide will be updated periodically based on newly found resources and faculty feedback. The guide is broken into the following sections: 1. OER Basics This section covers the definitions, best practices & policy, creating, and using OER. 2. The subsections under Finding OER provides links to OER textbooks, books, journal Articles, theses & pre-publication research, courseware & classroom materials, multimedia, & general repositories. 3. This section contains subscription-based resources the library provides. 4. This section provides you with links to other OER projects conducted at other institutions. 5. This section provides you with links to OER organizations not otherwise listed in the other sections.