In my last post we looked at Journal Citation Reports as a way of evaluating potential homes for publishing your research. In this post, I will tell you a little bit about using the Web of Science database to track...
Today’s post is a guest post by Kevin Blake, part of the OU IT Learning Spaces team. Not exactly sure what lecture capture is? Don’t worry. Put simply, lecture capture is the process of recording a lecture and delivering...
Considering upgrading to Apple’s New OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)? On July 25th, OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) became available for purchase on the Mac App Store for $19.99. The Mac App Store is currently supported on OS versions...
You’ve painstakingly written an article based on your latest research, but now how do you decide where to submit it for publication? OU Libraries subscribes to a tool called the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) that can assist you in determining...
One of the key elements to learning is engagement. Attention spans are short, multitasking is rampant and as instructors we are often competing for that attention. Engagement happens on many levels but one of the coolest uses of technological...
You may have noticed the following kiosks while walking around campus this summer: Part of a pilot program organized by OU IT, Housing & Food and the OU Libraries, the kiosks are wireless, cloud printers brought to campus through...
Students use 21st century technology outside the classroom so why not inside the classroom as well? Here are a handful of apps that can be useful in the classroom as well as preparing for classes. Penultimate Penultimate gives you a...
Want your students to use better sources for their paper? Encourage them to use the millions of scholarly resources available through the library by making it easier to access these sources right from your D2L course. Here are several...
Summer is upon us, and for the OU IT Learning Spaces team, this means business! The period between the spring and fall semesters is the best time for us to update campus’ classrooms, and our staff will be busy...
If you follow the higher education literature, you’ve probably read about the need for reform in scholarly communication and heard about the rising prices of journal subscriptions that dominate university library budgets. Encouraging open access (OA) through OA journals...
