Instructional Support Checklist
For ideas about how to use these tools in instruction, contact Kim Duckett (kim_duckett@ncsu.edu -- 513-3653) or DELTA Instructional Services (learntech@ncsu.edu)
There are many librarians who can help you with your courses. See the list of subject specialist librarians for the names of librarians working in your discipline.
1. Do you have readings you'd like to make available to all your students online?
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the Scholarly Communication librarian is available to answer any questions you have about copyright and use of copyrighted materials in your course -- contact the Scholarly Communication Center. |
2. Do you have documentaries or films you'd like for your students to watch?
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Instructors can check materials out of the Media Center to show in class or they may book the theater in the library -- contact the Media Center. |
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DELTA and the library have partnerships to facilitate the delivery of films to students in distance education courses -- contact Kim Duckett. |
3. Are you teaching a distance education course?
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TripSaver - the library will send students books for free via UPS two-day delivery. Any articles not available in the library's online subscriptions will be scanned and made available to students online. The library sends the students a link to a PDF. |
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Ask a Librarian services include phone (including toll-free), email, IM, and "virtual reference" chat. |
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DELTA and the library have partnerships to facilitate the delivery of films to students in distance education courses -- contact Kim Duckett. |
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Librarians are available to work online with groups of distance education students and/or create online guides to help students with assignments -- contact Kim Duckett. |
4. Do your students have trouble finding the kinds of information you want them to use in their papers and projects?
Contact Kawanna Bright, Instructional Services Librarian, or a subject specialist librarian for help with any of the following:
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A librarian can create a customized, discipline-specific set of resources tailored for your course -- including links to appropriate article databases, ejournals, catalog, reference resources such as specialized encyclopedias or handbooks, and guides to finding specialized information resources (ex. statistics, GIS, business data). See Examples. |
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A librarian can look at your assignment to give suggestions on language to use in order to contextualize library research, to provide specific instructions to guide students to appropriate resources, and to give you a sense of how well the parameters of the assignment match to the resources available in the NCSU Libraries. |
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A librarian can visit your class to teach students about the social contexts surrounding information such as: the scholarly communication process, the economics of information, Wikipedia and the evaluation of information, plagiarism/citation, copyright, etc. |
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A librarian can visit your class to teach students about how to find specific kinds of information (ex. scholarly journal articles, GIS, numeric data), how to use article databases, etc. |
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Distance education -- a librarian can visit off-campus class sites or meet with your students synchronously online through Elluminate, an online synchronous classroom environment in pilot through DELTA. -- contact Kim Duckett. |
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A librarian specializing in your discipline can monitor a discussion area about a research assignment and post suggestions for students. |
5. Do your students have trouble with citation style and/or writing?
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Citation Builder - easy-to-use tool that helps students construct APA, MLA, and CBE style citations for books, scholarly journal articles, articles a reprinted collection, book chapter, personal essay, or interview. |
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Refworks - a comprehensive "citation management" tool that is free to NCSU students and accessed via the web. It is most appropriate for upper-level students, graduate-level students, and researchers. Librarians are available to teach Refworks workshops either face-to-face or online -- contact Eleanor Smith |
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Paper Writing Toolkit - links to tools and resources that will help you research, write, and make a bibliography for your paper. Includes resources from the library, other NCSU campus units, and other universities. |
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Poster Creation Toolkit - in development |
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Presentation Toolkit - in development |
6. Do your students need to do any of the following for a project?
- Create a poster or banner?
- Add photos, maps, slides, and other illustrations to a project?
- Turn a paper into a digital format (i.e. PDF)?
- Take photos or digital video and/or edit them?
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Digital Media Lab - staff provide assistance in creating and converting all types of media
to digital formats -- contact Herman Berkhoff - 513-7110. The lab also has equipment that can be checked out by faculty and students: digital cameras, camcorders, and mp3 players. |
7. Do you want your students to be introduced to GIS or numeric data?
A librarian can help you help by:
- providing an orientation to available resources of
either kind of data tailored to your class material.
- identifying stand alone data analysis tools that
are simple enough for undergraduates to use for projects.
- making an informational presentation on the applications
for either GIS or numeric data customized to your discipline.
- looking over your assignment using GIS or numeric data
and identify areas in which students may have difficulty.
8. Would you like to use communication tools such as blogs or wikis in your course?
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WolfWikis - This wiki service is available for NCSU faculty, staff, and students. A wiki is a website that simplifies the process of creating web pages and allows documents to be developed and edited in a collaborative mode. See WolfWikis: Information for Faculty. |
For ideas about how to use these tools in instruction, contact Kim Duckett (kim_duckett@ncsu.edu - 513-3653) or DELTA Instructional Services (learntech@ncsu.edu)
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