Complete List of AISR Workshops

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INFORMATION SEARCHING SKILLS SERIES:

Bibliographic Management: Introduction to RefWorks

Sign-up for this workshop to acquaint yourself with how to use RefWorks for the first time. Stop typing out your bibliographies. More than 4,110 Jeffersonians use RefWorks, a web-based database and bibliography creation program, available via JEFFLINE. Learn to create, organize, and access personal databases of bibliographic citations. Save time and let RefWorks format your bibliography for you. We'll show you how to use Refworks to import, export, search, and format citations, and use RefShare to collaborate and share databases with your colleagues.

Conducting Research with Knowledge-Based Databases, Search Engines and Managing Your Citations with RefWorks 2.0

This 3-hour workshop will cover PubMed, Scopus, Google and Google Scholar and how to use RefWorks 2.0 to manage your citations for publication. This workshop is designed for all Jefferson researchers. We’ll move from introductory concepts to more advanced search techniques. If you need to organize citations and aim to expedite your research output this workshop will help.

Agenda
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. PubMed
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Scopus, Google and Google Scholar
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 4:15 p.m. RefWorks 2.0
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Wrap-up

e-books at Jefferson

With the proliferation of next generation devices like the Kindle and iPad, e-books are getting renewed attention. Learn about trends in scholarly publishing, how to use the 400+ e-books available from JEFFLINE, integrate e-books into Pulse, and bring your own device for show-and-tell!

Introduction to Google Forms

Are you trying to gather feedback from users and want to use email to gather responses? This workshop will introduce Google forms for creating quick and easy online surveys and questionnaires. Build surveys using multiple-choice, text, checkboxes, lists or scales. You will create a form and view how results are displayed. Google forms is part of google docs, the free web-based program that also includes word processing, spreadsheets and presentation templates. This workshop will focus on forms.

Introduction to Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

Join us in the Scott Memorial computer lab as Shane A. Heiney, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates how he uses Mendeley. He will cover:
Creating an account and installing Mendeley.
Adding papers to Mendeley and organizing them using tags and folders.
Reading and annotating papers in Mendeley.
Inserting citations in MS Word and formatting bibliographies.
Social aspects of Mendeley such as sharing and collaborative annotation of papers using groups.

Shane Heiney is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania where he studies how neural circuits in the brain change when we learn to make new movements. He is a Mendeley Advisor and has been using the program in his own research for two years.

To learn more about Mendeley, check out this video prior to attending the workshop.

Introduction to OVIDSP

This workshop is designed for all Jeffersonians with little or no experience searching the new MEDLINE database using OVIDSP. This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the MEDLINE database structure and content.

The workshop will cover the following topics:
How to access the database via JEFFLINE
Personal accounts and workspace
What is MeSH?
What is a Scope Note?
How does the Explode feature work in OVID?
Explode versus Focus
How to limit searches
How to save, print and email citations
Find Similar feature
Find Citing Articles feature
Find New Citation feature

Professional PubMed Searching

Learn to search MEDLINE through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's Entrez search engine. This class focuses on using Linkout (links to over 5,300 full-text SML electronic journals), My NCBI (store and retrieve search strategies and establish search filters), Clipboard, Limit, and History features of PubMed. In addition, learn to set-up collection lists to permanently save lists of citations.

This workshop will cover:
Limits
Journal browser
MeSH browser
Single citation matcher
Truncation
Search field tags
Journals Databases
PreMEDLINE
Natural language searching
Clinical Queries using research methodology filters
Creating search filters

RSS Workshop - Manage your information intake

Are you overwhelmed by the task of keeping up to date? Work smarter and be more productive by using RSS, a Web standard, to consolidate journal table of contents alerts, news headlines, Septa outages and more in one place. In this workshop Jeffersonians will create and customize their own Google reader account.

Take Advantage of the Jefferson Digital Commons for Shameless Self-Promotion

It's a win-win academic opportunity--promote your Jefferson research and publishing efforts to the world by participating in the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). The JDC increases your visibility. With over 2,700 different archived full-text resources including academic articles, posters, preprints, videos, images, teaching materials and newsletters you get permanent public space for all types of files AND your work is indexed by search engines like Google. Receive monthly alerts notifying you how many times your works have been downloaded. Create a faculty researcher page. Use the JDC as a university press and publish your department newsletters or create a new journal. Learn how the JDC complements Xythos and the Faculty Interests Database. The JDC is free to all Jeffersonians.

The Power of AISR

This brief session will introduce Jefferson faculty and staff to all the different departments that make up AISR (Academic & Instructional Support & Resources). AISR is much more than just the Scott Memorial Library. You will be introduced to the numerous services offered by AISR: Need help with your online course? Looking for help with designing your conference poster? Having trouble formatting your PowerPoint slides? Do you want to use clickers in your PowerPoint presentations? Attend this session to learn answers and discover the many services AISR provides for Jefferson faculty and staff.

Twitter for Beginners

Politicians, celebrities, educators and organizations are tweeting. Join us to learn about Twitter. You will create an account, learn to tweet, Twitter etiquette, and how tweeting can help strengthen your course, organization, or department community. Follow [Scott Memorial Library]

Using Scopus & Internet Search Engines Effectively

Tired of getting millions of results when you search Google? Novice users enter their search topic into the default search engine of choice (usually Google). But, did you know that you can significantly increase the chances you'll find what you're looking for by knowing some of tricks of the searching trade? Your librarians will show you how to change your simple searches to successful power searches. This workshop will also discuss Google Scholar and citation analysis.

Using Social Media at Jefferson

This 3-hour workshop will help the Jefferson community understand the world of social media.

Instructors are:
Dan Kipnis, Senior Education Services Librarian, Scott Memorial Library
Josh Goldstein, Director of Social Media, Interactive Marking, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
Suzanne Berg, Marketing Coordinator, Thomas Jefferson University
Gary Kaplan, Senior Information Services Librarian, Scott Memorial Library

Agenda
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. Hospital and University policies for using social media
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Introduction to Twitter and how it can be used by Hospital and University Departments
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 4:15 p.m. Blogging (platforms for blogging and examples of effective blogs)
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Wrap-up

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY SKILLS SERIES:

Effective Course Management Using Blackboard Seminar

This full-day seminar is designed for course directors and for teachers responsible for all aspects of a course. The morning session concentrates on the basic features of Blackboard including Wikis, Blogs, assessment, and the Grade Center. The afternoon session will focus on distance learning tools--discover the benefits of using these tools in your face-to-face courses. Participants completing the day's session will receive a certificate of attendance.

Participants completing the day's session will receive a certificate of attendance. Lunch will be provided.

Effective Presentions Seminar

This full-day seminar covers everything from creating your first presentation to developing multimedia presentations with components for audience participation and enduring handouts. Both new and seasoned faculty will benefit from this hands-on seminar designed to improve your presentations.

The morning session focuses on creating and managing digital assets using the Adobe Creative Suite. The afternoon session concentrates on content delivery: packaging your content for students to access independently and tools for the auditorium like polling software. Participants completing the day's session will receive a certificate of attendance.

Participants completing the day's session will receive a certificate of attendance. Lunch will be provided.

ONLINE SERIES:

Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorial

Copyright & Fair Use Guidelines

This workshop will provide basic information about copyright and guidelines for classroom use of published materials. Fair use doctrine and its application in a university setting will also be addressed.

Getting Started with PowerPoint

Learn the basics: how to open a new presentation, choose an output type, apply a design template, add and format text, make speaker notes, print handouts and save/package your presentation.

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