This Open Educational Resource is "designed for students to be a zero-cost, high-quality guide to academic writing, with the goal of preparing you for success in college and beyond."
BEAM is a schema for categorizing the rhetorical positions of authors according to the author's intention or purpose of the information. This Innovative Practices piece critiques common methods of teaching source evaluation and proposes that instruction librarians teach BEAM to students who may struggle using a source once they have located it. A lesson plan is included as supplemental materials.
Engage your classroom in polls using the technology they already have - their cell phones and laptops. Take quizzes, guide discussions, demonstrate surveys. Free and low cost options available for higher ed.
Create surveys to poll your class -- teach them primary research and get data (about an assignment, maybe?) to analyze in real time. The basic level is free.
Another internet-based classroom collaborative share tool that works in real time. Makes learning a game by making learners into players and encouraging focus and social learning.
