Engaging Undergraduate Students with Google Sheets: A Simple Classroom Exercise
Brendan Johnston and Erik Fausak
Description
UWP 104F is a course designed to teach students to discover, synthesize and share information learned in the health sciences. Student attention and retention of search strategies will be explored in this presentation. To promote active learning, we incorporated a simple Google Spreadsheet during the demonstrative session where students had to find a relevant article in PubMed related to their topic and paste the title into the sheet. Then students were expected to use their article and paste the title from that sheet into another literature database. At the end of the session, students were queried using Kahoot!.
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About the Presenters
Brendan Johnston is a UC-AFT Lecturer in the University Writing Program. He currently teaches classes in advanced composition, writing the health sciences, and FY seminars in writing about film. His research interests include writing pedagogy, modernism and poetics, literature and the environment, and science and technology studies.
Erik Fausak is a health sciences librarian in Student Services. His primary area of involvement is veterinary medicine where he has a great deal of clinical experience as a veterinary technician. He has a passion for incorporation of evidence-based practice into veterinary medicine.
