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Canvas offers plenty of built-in tools to help you teach, communicate, and stay organized, and everyone seems to use them in their own way. Maybe you’re setting up Modules to guide students through your course materials, using Rubrics to clarify expectations, or creating quick Quizzes for practice and feedback. No matter how you teach, there are lots of ways to make Canvas work for you and create an even better learning experience for you students. A few tools we see faculty using often include
It's National Library Week and, while we celebrate Banned Books Week in the fall, the first weekday of National Library Week always highlights an individual's right to choose their own reading materials or choose age-appropriate materials for those in their care without restricting others' access. What can you do to help or "celebrate" Right to Read Day? You can always read a banned or challenged book . The American Library Association, a professional association for all kinds of libraries-
The library has lots of inspiring biographies of African Americans. Check out our display on the lower level to learn some of these stories: African American Entrepreneurs African American Women Scientists and Inventors American Tapestry : The story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama The Autobiography of Medgar Evers Hand in Hand: Ten Black men who changed America Ida: A sword among lions, Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching The Life of Sojourner Truth:
Title: Fate s and Furies Author: Lauren Groff Genre: literary fiction Why did you choose to read this book? A lot of what I’ve read lately qualifies as literary fiction about a family over a long period of time. Fates and Furies examines the lives of and marriage between Lancelot Satterwhite and Mathilde Yoder. The first half of the book features Lancelot’s perspective and the second half Mathilde’s, including their respective childhoods, transition to adulthood, their marriage and ultimately
No joke--it's the official Census Day! What does that mean? Where you live or stay most of the time as of today is what your Census documentation should show. 5 Ws and a H: Census FAQ WHAT? Every 10 years the US Census counts each person in the US. NC loses $16,000 for each person not counted. WHY? Census data is used by the state, county, and city to plan for and fund everything from Head Start to high schools and healthcare to highways. WHO: One person should count every member of their
Title: The Three-Body Problem Author: Cixin Liu Genre: science fiction Why did you choose to read this book? I am participating in Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge. Having read The Three-Body Problem allows me to check off the category “A book of genre fiction in translation.” Also, the book has been on display on the Special Collections area of the main campus library and I’ve walked by it many times. The cover jumped out at me; this qualifies it for the library's Read Great Things
How can anyone be expected to tell truth from fiction (or as Gen Z says, cap or no cap) in our hyper connected world? Here are four moves you can make to help you determine whether something credible or not on the internet. The Four Moves, or The SIFT Method: Using the SIFT Method to help evaluate information found online. STOP: You found something that may or may not be true! STOP yourself from sharing it right away and follow the next steps. INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE: Figure out where the
As we start another academic year, many of us have launched our online classes and are already thinking about classes for the B term and beyond. Whether you're building a course from scratch or refining one you've taught before, setting aside time now to ensure it's well-structured, clear, and engaging can make a meaningful difference for your students and for you. One tool that can help with that process is the Online Course Review Checklist . Designed with quality standards and effective
I think that there are few things more wonderful than new books, but I acknowledge that, being a librarian, I'm biased. See a full list of the gems recently added to our collection in this PDF: New Books. Highlights from the full list include: Ivory, Horn, and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis by Ronald Orenstein This alarming book tells a crime story that takes place thousands of miles away, in countries that few of us may visit. But like the trade in illegal drugs, the
This book was read by Library Director Irene Laube. One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment