Learning in a digital age (lecturers)

The Intelligent web searching (PDF) workshop helps students to search the web effectively and critically evaluate the information they find.

The Introduction to EndNote (PDF) workshop introduces students to
using EndNote to manage their references, as well as using it with Word to automatically insert in-text citations and create bibliographies.

Evaluating information sources (PDF)
Introduces students to thinking critically about the information they find to ensure they are making sound judgements before using it for their academic work.
 
The good, the bad and the ugly of Google Scholar (PDF)
Helps students make an informed choice about Google Scholar as a tool for literature searching.

RSS feeds (PDF)
Introduces students to setting up RSS feeds to keep up to date with information relevant to their course.

Copyright for students

Teaching notes:
Copyright for students (PDF)

Online tutorial:
Copyright for students

Web searching 

Teaching notes:
Web searching: Finding, evaluating and referencing information online (PDF)

Online tutorial:
Web searching: Finding, evaluating and referencing information online

Finding journal articles with Web of Science

Teaching notes:
Finding journal articles with Web of Science (PDF)

Online tutorial:
Finding journal articles with Web of Science

Evaluating information

Teaching notes:
Evaluating information (PDF)

Online tutorial:
Evaluating information

What? Why? How? (PDF) is a series of short resources introducing various types of technology that students may be expected to use as part of their studies. Podcasts, wikis, blogs, microblogging, social bookmarking and RSS feeds are all covered.

Further activities are on the Learning in a digital age (students) page.

The Learning in a digital age (students) page contains further information for students on:

• Using digital media
• Writing online
• Researching on the web
• Managing information
• Learning on the go
• Copyright issues
• Staying safe online
• Netiquette

The Staff and Departmental Development Unit (SDDU) website has information about the learning technology tools available for use in your teaching.

The Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities (PDF)guide from the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog shows new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

Further information is on the Finding and evaluating information (Lecturers) page.