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Cephalonian Cards

Cards with pre-printed questions are passed to several students. Students read the questions aloud; the instructor answers them (with or without slides). Quick intro to factual material, and sets up a question-and-answer dynamic that often leads to students asking their own questions.

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Finding Articles for Your Geography Research Assignment

This interactive tutorial worksheet will help students find quality sources for their geography research assignment using Library databases and Google Scholar. They will learn how to build a search strategy and then will get experience searching using three separate databases -- the Library article search (EBSCO), JSTOR, and Google Scholar. Students will receive a copy of their responses to the tutorial via email once they complete it. To assign students to complete the tutorial, simply share the tutorial link with them and create an assignment dropbox where they can upload a PDF of the email they received.  

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Finding Quality Sources with Google Scholar

This video will help you find and cite quality sources using Google Scholar and to connect Google Scholar to the PCC Library so you can access full-text articles available through PCC.

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Gale eBooks (formerly GVRL)

Explains how to use Gale eBooks (formerly GVRL), which helps you get the background information you need to do a well-informed research project.