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COM Library Drop In Workshops
COM Library offers three workshop series. The Student Survival Series is designed for students, the Community Series for our local community and the Faculty Series is designed for faculty. All COM, students, faculty, staff and our community are welcome to attend all workshops. Seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis.
Workshop Survey (to be filled out after workshop participation).
Spring 2010
Student Survival Series
Designed for COM students, but all COM students, faculty, staff and community are welcome.
How to Survive with Google Docs
Learn hands-on how to write, edit, store documents, presentations and spreadsheets and then access them from any computer with Internet access with free web based Google Docs. Especially helpful if you don't have your own computer, your own office software or don't have a portable drive to which you can save your documents.
Tuesday January 26, 12:30 pm
Thursday January 28, 6:00 pm
Friday, January 29, 10:00 am
How to Survive Word 2007
Learn some basics about Word 2007 hands-on. The emphasis will be on Word and cover hanging indents, changing margins, header & footer, double spacing, inserting images and more as time permits. Very helpful if you will be writing research papers. Fake Paper
Tuesday February 2, 12:30
Friday, February 5, 10:00
Tuesday, March 9, 6:00 pm
How to Survive with EZ Citation
Some
of the very databases you get your articles from will also help you cite your sources MLA or APA style. Learn how to get these citations and save yourself some time!
Tuesday February 9, 12:30
Friday, February 12, 10:00
Tuesday, April 6, 6:00 PM
How to Survive EBSCO
Hands-on workshop on EBSCO, our most popular set of databases. Learn how to save yourself some time when you research in EBSCO and even get MLA and APA style citations.
Tuesday February 16, 12:30
Friday, February 19 10:00
How to Survive CINAHL Hands on workshop on CINAHL, the definitive Nursing database. Learn how to save yourself some time when you research and cite APA style when you use CINAHL.
Tuesday, February 23, 12:30
Friday, February 26, 10:00
Community Series
Designed for COM community, but all COM students, faculty, staff and students are welcome.
COM Library Website Tour
Find out all the great resources COM LIbrary has to offer online.
Thursday, January 21 12:30
Saturday, January 23, 11:00
Google Book Search
Learn how to search books online with Google book search, create your own library, and even download public copyright books.
Thursday, February 18 12:30
Saturday, February 20, 11:00
Delicious
Learn how to use this free bookmarking service that lets you take your favorite sites wherever you go, regardless of the computer or browser you’re on!
Thursday, April 15 12:30
Saturday, April 17, 11:00
Flickr
Learn the basics of how to use this free photo sharing site, from general tips for getting the photos off your camera to the computer, to the specifics of getting them then from the computer to Flickr.
Thursday, May 13, 12:30
Saturday, May 15, 11:00
Faculty Series On Demand
Please contact
Kathryn Park at kpark@com.edu to schedule a faculty series workshop.
Amazon Wish List for Faculty
No one knows better than you what you are teaching and which books will help your students the most. Help us make our collection even better the easy way!
Delicious Bookmarks for Faculty
Easily share your favorite sites with colleagues and students. Grab your Delicious RSS feed for your Blackboard class.
Google for Faculty
Use Google Docs for student collaboration, Google books, and more.
CREDO Reference Database
Learn about this new COM Library database. Get images for your class, use visual search to make conceptual connections.
Current Awareness
Set up EBSCO, LION or Google current awareness tools to receive the table of contents of your favorite journals, alerts on favorite authors or search result alerts.
