using wikipedia in the classroom

Interesting article from insidehighered.com: When Wikipedia is the Assignment.

More on wikipedia:

7 Things You Should Know About Wikipedia (from EDUCAUSE Connect)
Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms / Will Richardson (in the IRC)
Wikipedia: School and University Projects

available at Brock on Saturday

If you want some help with your library research, I will be available this Saturday from 12 to 5pm. Come by to say hello!

WHEN: Saturday, October 13
TIME: 12pm to 5pm
WHERE: Research Help Desk, 6th floor, James A. Gibson Library (St. Catharines Campus)

writing your thesis?

If you are thinking about your thesis, project or dissertation, we have a number of books that can help you:


LB 2369 F59 2007
Destination dissertation : a traveler's guide to a done dissertation / Sonja K. Foss and William Waters.



LB 2369 T458 2008
Theses and dissertations : a guide to planning, research, and writing / R. Murray Thomas, Dale L. Brubaker.




LB 2386 P47 2005
How to get a PhD : a handbook for students and their supervisors / Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh.

LB 2369 B49 2007
A practical guide to the qualitative dissertation / Sari Knopp Biklen and Ronnie Casella.

If you want to take a look at theses and disserations that others have completed, see this helpful page on finding theses/dissertations.