Week 8: Curation & Annotation; Accessibility & Assistive Tech

Hi all, we have excellent guests this week. To get started:

Watch talk with Dr. Remi Kalir (Duke University) on social annotation. Review his profile as well.

Install Hypothes.is as a browser plug-in and create an account. As always, if this is against your privacy preferences, you can opt out, but this is listed as an ethical educational technology.
Go to our Social Spaces page and join our EDCI 136 private hypothesis group (link listed there). Practice by adding an annotation to this week 8 post or replying to a post that someone else in the class has already made (stay professional). When you create an annotation, you can annotate privately (just for you), privately to a group (select the group), or publicly for anyone to see, so make sure you select our private class group when making a post. Practice some annotation with your pod members where you create your own private group and provide private pod-only feedback on each other’s blogs using Hypothes.is.

Download Zotero prior to watching the video (although you can use a more limited web-based version if you do not have a computer you can install software on). Skip down this page to find resources on how to download and install Zotero.
Watch Jessica Mussell’s talk on Zotero for curation and citation (and review her bio)

Review the UVic Libraries’ Intro to Zotero guideThe guide includes the Zotero activity links for our workshop, but if folks just want those, here they are:
Activity 1 – downloading and installing Zotero
Activity 2 – Adding citations to Zotero
Activity 3 – Adding citations & bibliographies in Word
Activity 4 – Attaching PDFs and other files to your citationsWe also offer an Advanced Zotero workhop. See advanced Zotero workshop resources, which are available.For Zotero help, email: askus@uvic.ca (We have at least 14 librarians on staff that are familiar with Zotero); or check out the Zotero Forums searchable knowledge base; or email Zotero Support at: support@zotero.org
Lastly, if folks are interested, check out how to earn a Zotero badge.
We’ll keep talking about curation in future weeks, including how to use your blog as a curation tool as well as social bookmarking, including tools like Diigo.

Accessibility and Assistive Technology – Watch talk with Charlie Watson from the UVic Centre for Accessible Learning:

Review the links Charlie provides from their resources slide:

Introduction to Academic Access (Accommodation, Rights, and Resources)
- A follow-up to our above talk by CAL on adaptive/assistive technologies, we wanted to share another talk to help learners better understand their rights, the resources they can access, and accommodations vs. concessions. This time, we were joined by three team members from CAL. While this is not a required talk, given it is not directly centred on digital literacy, we encourage all learners to be informed on rights and resources.
- Links:
  - How to register with CAL
  - Justice Institute of BC’s summary of the duty to accommodate
  - Learning Assistance Program: learning strategists and specialized tutors for all students
  - Student Wellness Centre: physical and mental health support
  - UVSS Society for Students with a Disability: advocacy and support for students with a disability by students with a disability

- See guest bios below:
  - Charlie Watson’s bio
  - Sydney LaMarsh’s bio
  - Szymon Stecewicz – bio forthcoming

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