The Graduate School and the Information Technology Assistance Center are offering two overviews this month of the Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports program (ETDR). Both sessions will be in the K-State Student Union.
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QSR International has scheduled their first-ever two-day NVivo workshop in Overland Park, Kansas, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 30-31 (Wednesday-Thursday). This workshop will cover the following topics:
Day One: NVivo 10 Essentials
Day Two: Further Analysis in NVivo 10
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Graduate students: Is this the semester you start working on your thesis, dissertation, or report? If so, don’t write a single word until you download the new ETDR Handbook (PDF, 42 pages). Compiled this summer by the ETDR consultants in the Information Technology Assistance Center, the handbook is a complete guide to formatting and submitting your electronic thesis, dissertation, or report (ETDR), including a thorough overview of all the Graduate School formatting requirements. Continue reading “Graduate students and faculty: New ETDR Handbook provides overviews, details, and more”
For graduate students using LaTeX to write their electronic theses, dissertations, or reports (ETDR), a newly revised ETDR LaTeX template is now available on the templates page of the ETDR website. Here are some of the updates made to the template: Continue reading “Grad students and faculty: ETDR LaTeX updated template for graduate students”
The iSIS enhancements to add a textbook icon to students’ enrollment shopping carts and course schedules occurred in mid-March, just in time for fall enrollment. Students with multiple courses in their enrollment shopping cart or on their class schedule can now see all of the textbooks associated with their courses in a single view on the Varney’s website shopping cart, by clicking on the textbook icon.
Clicking that icon will display a list of all the required textbooks for the listed classes. For full instructions, see Viewing your textbooks in iSIS Help.
The Information Technology Assistance Center has several new videos available to help with using Word 2007 to write your Electronic Theses, Dissertation, and Reports. These 2- to 3-minute, narrated videos show specific examples in Word 2007 and are helpful if you’re just starting to work with Styles.
Faculty and staff who work in IT in higher education are encouraged to consider submitting articles to EDUCAUSE Quarterly, one of the leading peer-reviewed online journals in this field.
This journal features quarterly themes but also invites general-interest articles to run throughout the year. Articles should run between 500 – 5,000 words, and multimedia elements are highly encouraged — to maximize the use of the Web and Internet capabilities. Publication guidelines and more are available online, including planned themes and submission deadlines (see below).
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Can I use an image from the Web in my term paper? Do I have to get permission to make an entire video available in my K-State Online course? Copyright is complicated, but here are some resources that help answer tough copyright questions:
Librarians and scholars proposed the concept of Open Access in the 1990s: Intellectual material will be available for all to read and use or re-use, without cost. There are usually some limits to the open-access release as practiced by university presses such as disallowing commercial sharing and derivative works — and requiring author attribution (giving credit to the original authors).
This idea, in 2010, has gained a lot more traction in higher education. Open-source software has emerged from university environments. Whole-course contents have been made available in an open-source way to make higher education more accessible for the masses, starting with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Courseware project. Various grant funding agencies now require open licensing of all research results before grant funds are disseminated, due to citizen advocacy groups pushing for public access to the findings from federally funded research.
University presses are using electronic publications to extend their reach and reputations; they are also finding e-publications a strategy to sell more books. Some university presses have made a part of their holdings available for open access — with a focus on works that have already gone out-of-print (and sometimes, are already in the public domain). Continue reading “A fully open-access scholarly press”
By definition and in practice, multimedia projects involve a lot of disparate pieces: imagery, audio, video, text, and different interactive effects (short games and short simulations). A range of technologies are used to capture the raw files, and then others are used to edit and process the images, sounds, text, and video.
A stylebook, style guide, statement of work, or project statement
A common tool used to support project quality is the stylebook. (This may also be called a “style guide,” a “statement of work,” a “project statement,” or other terms depending on the specific workplace.)
Stylebooks are the reference tools used throughout the lifespan of a development team’s work on a particular project. For the team members, stylebooks establish shared understandings and standards of quality for every phase of the development work: research, project planning, design, raw files capture, digital content development, content editing and rendering, and finalized output.
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