Cathy Moulder

Wikis Work: Enhancing Student Engagement with Collaborative Technology

Cathy Moulder et al. — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:32:29 PST

This paper documents experiences using a wiki in teaching large undergraduate classes. A wiki is a web-based tool used to enhance student engagement and collaboration. This paper presents experiences using wikis as the major term assignment for two senior classes; one in human geography, the other in earth sciences. The advantages of using wiki technology are examined, as well as some of the challenges presented, including evaluation. While some of these challenges were significant, the experiments were successful enough to warrant further use. The paper concludes with some recommendations for others considering using wikis in their courses.

Keeping Up on Geo-Everything

Cathy Moulder — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:21:47 PDT

The 2009 Horizon Report on emerging technologies identifies “Geo-Everything” as a critical trend for educators in the next two to three years. How can busy professionals keep on top of these rapidly developing technologies? There is so much happening and so little time! This article focuses on tools and strategies for keeping oneself up-to-date and aware of emerging trends in neogeography, geolocative devices and just about geo-everything. The emphasis is on achieving efficient and effective personal current awareness, with practical tips on selecting the most productive information sources and making use of web technologies to gather and winnw through the masses of journals, blogs, listservs, commercial alerts and other news sources.

How Maps Work

Cathy Moulder — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:14:41 PST

Training session for McMaster Museum of Art docents, in preparation for a museum display of rare maps: "The Evolution of the Cartography of the Gulf Region between the 2nd and 19th Centuries"

Google Earth Meets Higher Ed: Reflections on Neogeography

Cathy Moulder — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:24:54 PDT

Keeping Up on Geo-Everything

Cathy Moulder — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:03:31 PDT

The 2009 Horizon Report on emerging technologies identifies “Geo-Everything” as a critical trend for educators in the next two to three years. How can busy professionals keep on top of these rapidly developing technologies? There is so much happening and so little time! This session will focus on tools and strategies for keeping oneself up-to-date and aware of emerging trends in neogeography, geolocative devices and just about geo-everything. The emphasis will be on achieving efficient and effective personal current awareness, with practical tips on selecting the most productive information sources and making use of web technologies to gather and winnw through the masses of journals, blogs, listservs, commercial alerts and other news sources.

Current Literature on Geographic Information Systems and Libraries

Cathy Moulder — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:26:09 PST

Ongoing bibliography of publications on the subject of GIS and library services.

Neogeographies

Cathy Moulder — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:01:13 PST

‘Neogeographies’ are Web 2.0 applications using geographic information. This session will show a few examples of this type of web-based tool but will focus mostly on Google Earth. Cathy Moulder has done some research specifically on Google Earth and its application to student assignments in higher education. This particular neogeography offers considerable potential for incorporation into student assignments in many disciplines.

Graduate Student and Faculty Spaces and Services

Vivian Lewis et al. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:34:45 PST

Recently, ARL libraries have begun to experiment with an enriched set of spaces and services to meet the complex teaching, learning, and research needs of graduate students and faculty. This Survey on Graduate Student and Faculty Spaces and Services was conducted to explore the variety of resources and services being delivered to or envisioned for this unique population.

Alice Munro: An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism

Carol Mazur et al. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:36:42 PDT

Alice Munro is recognized as one of the greatest short-story writers of the last 50 years. This bibliography covers all of Munro's fiction through 2005, and hundreds of critical books. theses and articles published about her work.

'The Topography of Golgotha': Digitization of Maps and Aerial Photography of World War I

Cathy Moulder — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:27:54 PDT

An excellent collection of World War I military maps and air photos has been digitized and made available on the Internet as McMaster University Library's first major digitization project. This paper describes the collection and the steps to this achievement, including reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of out-sourcing the creation of digital images.

Change and Emerging Technologies: The Library's Role is Supporting Teaching and Learning in a 2.0 Environment

Jeff Trzeciak et al. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:09:07 PDT

Liaison librarians at McMaster University Library are actively collaborating with faculty members to incorporate emerging technologies into their classes. This session will describe three recent projects to incorporate wiki technology. The librarians played key roles to incorporate this Web 2.0 application into the curriculum of existing courses and into the requirements of a new course. The wiki initiatives strengthened partnerships with those faculty who were early adopters. Student reactions were varied and sometimes surprising. Faculty assessed student engagement and the quality of deliverables as much higher in quality than expected, suggesting that wiki use had a positive effect on learning. This session will share lessons learned and next steps for McMaster University Libraries in the harnessing of emerging technologies to the institution’s teaching mission.

Google Earth Meets Higher Ed: Reflections on Neogeography

Cathy Moulder — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:04:57 PDT

Educators in many disciplines are embracing the wonders of Google Earth to engage their students. This session explains the context of change in education (Web 2.0 and the NetGen students) and how these two trends merge in a new area called Neogeography. The session presents preliminary findings of a research project to identify the early adoption of one Neogeography (Google Earth). Results show a developing use of Google Earth in course assignments at the college and university level, with several resources identified that will become available in summer 2008.

The Honourable Robert Edward Clifford (1767-1817): Maps and Mysteries

Cathy Moulder — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:33:43 PDT

Robert Clifford was an Englishman, a renowned map collector – and probably a spy. He lived a quiet scholarly life in Paris during the French Revolution and early years of the Napoleonic era. But his correspondence with John Graves Simcoe reveals an exciting escape from France in 1803 with a trunk of secret maps and plans. Could the maps in McMaster University Library's collection have been part of that daring escape?