College of DuPage Library

Kanopy is an on-demand video streaming service available to COD faculty, students, and staff. You will need a COD email address to use Kanopy from off-campus locations. Kanopy is available off-campus to COD students, staff, and faculty only. The Kanopy collection includes a variety of subjects across many disciplines but its strength is feature films, indie titles, and documentaries. Kanopy tools allow you to create a personal watchlist, develop playlists for use in classes, edit videos to make clips, and more. See the user guides below for help getting started with Kanopy. Need help? Ask a Librarian!

How to link to a Kanopy video

Go to the video page. Click the Share icon. Copy the Share Link to the video. Simple!

How-to Guides

NKBA E-books in the Library

New! The Library now owns the NKBA Professional Resource Library on the Ebook Central platform. In Ebook Central, students can read the books, download chapters, highlight passages, make notes in the books, and much more. Get an Ebook Central account to use the books and the reading tools. See the how-to guides below to learn more. Also, make sure to check out all of the ID titles we have available on Ebook Central! You will need to have a library card to use these materials, so have it handy.

NKBA Title List

View the whole series here: NKBA Ebook Central.
Also available for check out in the Library's General collection.
Bath Planning : Guidelines, Codes, Standards. 2013
Kitchen and Bath Business and Project Management. 2013
Kitchen and Bath Design Presentation : Drawing, Plans, Digital Rendering. 2014
Kitchen and Bath Design Principles : Elements, Form, Styles. 2015
Kitchen and Bath Lighting: Concept, Design, Light. 2015
Kitchen and Bath Products and Materials : Cabinetry, Equipment, Surfaces. 2014
Kitchen and Bath Residential Construction and Systems. 2013
Kitchen and Bath Sustainable Design: Conservation, Materials, and Practices. 2015
Kitchen Planning : Guidelines, Codes, Standards. 2013

Ebook Central How-to Guides

Getting started with Ebook Central
Ebook Central simple search tool
Using the online reader
Using the online reader annotations tool
Using your bookshelf

What makes a good research assignment?
Assignments that work...

• Communicate the value of inquiry
• Require application of diverse information seeking strategies
• Entail topic development
• Recognize that different types of resources are appropriate for different information needs
• Expose students to a variety of resources
• Promote critical evaluation
• Incorporate ethical considerations of information use
• Enrich the subject of study
• Require practice finding and using information for a specific purpose
• Reinforce information literacy within different disciplines and at different developmental levels

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This guide is adapted from Olympic College Library's "Information Literacy Assignments That Work!" and is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

Shared works - whether copyright free or made available under a free license - allow creators and users to share their knowledge and creativity with the world, in the classroom and beyond.

All Rights Reserved - Copyright by default
In copyright law, by default all rights are reserved, or held, for the copyright holder.

Some Rights Reserved - Creative Common licenses
Open licenses, such as those provided by Creative Commons, allow copyright holders to grant permissions to users in a simple, straightforward manner, while still retaining specified rights - some rights reserved.

No Rights Reserved - Public domain
When a work is not protected by copyright (either by design or the expiration of a copyright term) it enters the public domain, a realm where no rights are reserved.

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"original CC license symbols by Creative Commons" by Shaddim is licensed CC BY 4.0

Creative Commons licenses are one of several kinds of public copyright licenses that allow for an expanded and flexible use of copyrighted materials. Creative Commons licenses allow creators to expand the use of their works while retaining copyright and allows users to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the works of others.

Through a combination of conditions, Creative Commons licenses grant rights that support free cultural works, works that contribute to remix culture, and works that can be used for commercial purposes. Licenses range from Attribution (CC BY), the most accommodating, to Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND), the most restrictive.

Public Domain Slider
An easy to use tool to help determine whether a work has fallen into the public domain.
http://www.librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/

Exceptions for Instructors eTool
The U.S. Copyright Code provides for the educational use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder under certain conditions. To find out if your intended use meets the requirements set out in the law, use this free, online tool.
http://www.librarycopyright.net/resources/exemptions/

Fair Use Evaluator
Helps you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code and can collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation.
http://www.librarycopyright.net/resources/fairuse/

Copyright Genie
Helps you find out if a work is covered by U.S. copyright, calculate the terms of its protection and collect the results of your search for your records.
http://www.librarycopyright.net/resources/genie/

Section 108 Spinner
Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Code allows libraries and archives, under certain circumstances, to make reproductions of copyrighted materials without the permission of the copyright holder.
http://www.librarycopyright.net/resources/spinner/

Copyright Navigator
A digital annotated concept map of the fundamentals of U.S. Copyright Law
http://navigator.carolon.net/

Online

Grantspace
GrantSpace offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of nonprofits worldwide. Look under SKILLS for fundraising information.

Books

Donor Cultivation and the Donor Lifecycle Map: A New Framework for Funding
Philanthropy HV41.2 .P65 2014

Fundraising Principles and Practice
Philanthropy HV41.2 .W67 2016

Nonprofit Fundraising 101
Philanthropy HD2769.15 .H49 2016

Sponsorship Seeker's Toolkit/
Philanthropy HD59.35 .G74 2014

The Money-Raising Nonprofit Brand: Motivating Donors to Give, Give Happily and Keep on Giving/
Philanthropy HV41.2 .B763 2014

Post-Election, Some Professors Feel They Must Play Mediator
Chronicle of Higher Education

"Will I put off my students? How will those talks affect course evaluations? Will I stifle conversation? Questions like those are among their concerns ... Worries about tenure and promotion could deter some professors. And for many more, politics isn’t related to the curriculum in a way that makes it a common topic of conversation."

Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources
The Learning Network, Teaching & Learning with the New York Times
A roundup of tools, questions, activities and case studies designed to help reduce digital naïveté

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Many thanks to Lauren Morgan & Tabatha Roberts for sharing the original G.I.F.T.S. - Great Ideas for Teaching Speech.

Resources for Teaching

Digital Resource Center
"This Digital Resource Center is all about sharing the accumulating wisdom and materials of the News Literacy teaching community, which works to strengthen democracy by teaching students to pluck reliable information from the daily media tsunami."
http://drc.centerfornewsliteracy.org/

Center for Media Literacy
"Through the years, CML has not only advocated for media literacy education, but also designed, developed, implemented and evaluated resources for educators and communities to comprise the CML MediaLit Kit™. CML’s framework for media literacy is now evidenced-based, with a peer-reviewed longitudinal study by UCLA."
http://www.medialit.org/educator-resources

Stony Brook University's News Literacy Course
The full News Literacy course, developed at Stony Brook University, organizes the material into 8 concepts that are spread amongst our 14 week course that take students from the first information revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press to the Digital Age of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Each lesson stands alone or can easily be integrated into your program.
http://drc.centerfornewsliteracy.org/course-pack

The Ultimate Critical Thinking Guide
A Who-What-Where-When-Why-How infographic guide to asking the questions that matter when engaging with new information.
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/20/12-things-we-le...

Studies

Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Literacy
Executive Summary of the 2016 report released by the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) showing students' inability to reason about information they see on the internet.
https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/V3LessonPlans/Executive%20Summary%2011....

Truth Be Told: How Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age
A 2010 report from Project Information Literacy showing, among other things, that while students are frequent evaluators of information found on the Web and take little at face value, they overwhelmingly tend to turn to friends and family members for help evaluating information for personal use.
http://www.projectinfolit.org/uploads/2/7/5/4/27541717/pil_fall2010_surv...

Promoting Civil Discourse Through Search Engine Diversity
doi: 10.1177/0894439313506838
A 2013 paper that focuses on increasing exposure to varied political opinions with a goal of improving civil discourse. Findings show that people who were shown more diverse results continued reading more diverse results and overall became more interested in news.

With Facebook, Blogs, and Fake News, Teens Reject Journalistic “Objectivity”
doi: 10.1177/0196859912458700
A 2012 article examining the news behaviors and attitudes of high school students. The results reveal changing ways news information is being accessed, new attitudes about what it means to be informed, and a youth preference for opinionated rather than objective news.