Back in 1970, the Autism Society first launched Autism Acceptance Month. Every April, autism educators and experts use this time to educate the public, promote acceptance, and spark change around autism issues.
To help educate our community, check out these five digital resources:
Autism Genes [VIDEO]
The Boy in the Labyrinth: Poems
Personalized Food Intervention and Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder Management
We know that as an instructor, your time is limited. That’s why we created Canvas Express workshops to learn the most helpful and time-saving features of Canvas. Canvas Express workshops focus on copying course content, student context cards, and quiz analytics. Each session will be led by Canvas Consultants, who will provide a quick 10-15-minute demonstration and then answer your questions about Canvas and your courses.
Invest 15-30 minutes of your day into Canvas now and thank yourself later. Check out the Canvas Express workshops below and get Canvas help here.
Canvas Student Context Card
9:30 – 10 a.m.
Tuesday, April 27
Register
The Canvas Student Context Card provides instructors with an immediate overview of:
This information can help faculty identify learner engagement and provide insights on learners in between letter grades.
Canvas Quiz Analytics
2:30 – 3 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27
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Canvas Quiz Analytics provide faculty with an overview of a learner’s performance on graded quizzes and question item analysis for multiple-choice and true/false questions. Item analysis includes estimates of reliability, difficulty and discrimination, and other information you can find from a downloadable report.
Canvas Quiz Analytics
9:30 – 10 a.m.
Thursday, April 29
Register
Canvas Quiz Analytics provides faculty with an overview of a learner’s performance on graded quizzes and question item analysis for multiple-choice and true/false questions. Item analysis includes estimates of reliability, difficulty and discrimination, and other information you can find from a downloadable report.
Canvas Student Context Card
2:30 – 3 p.m.
Thursday, April 29
Register
The Canvas Student Context Card provides instructors with an immediate overview of:
This information can help faculty identify learner engagement and provide insights on learners in between letter grades.
Canvas Course Copy Tool
Monday, May 17
9:30 – 10 a.m.
Register
The Canvas Course Copy Tool provides faculty with a quick and easy way to copy a course, in part or in whole. The Canvas Course Copy Tool also allows faculty to easily change or convert course calendars from term to term or even convert a course calendar from a Monday-Wednesday schedule to a Tuesday-Thursday schedule.
Canvas Course Copy Tool
Monday, May 17
2:30 – 3 p.m.
Register
The Canvas Course Copy Tool provides faculty with a quick and easy way to copy a course, in part or in whole. The Canvas Course Copy Tool also allows faculty to easily change or convert course calendars from term to term or even convert a course calendar from a Monday-Wednesday schedule to a Tuesday-Thursday schedule.
Canvas Course Copy Tool
Tuesday, May 18
11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Register
The Canvas Course Copy Tool provides faculty with a quick and easy way to copy a course, in part or in whole. The Canvas Course Copy Tool also allows faculty to easily change or convert course calendars from term to term or even convert a course calendar from a Monday-Wednesday schedule to a Tuesday-Thursday schedule.
April 6 – 12 is National Public Health Week, and to celebrate, we put together a list of eBook and video resources related to public health. Topics include public health nursing in the Jim Crow era, the role of technology in global public health, and how public health practices can improve equity.
Case Studies in Population and Community Health Management
Global Health and Social Justice Discussion: Meet the Founders of Partners in Health [VIDEO]
Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness
Happy Spring, and welcome to another Jefferson Digital Commons Quarterly Report. Check out the report to read about what fellow colleagues, researchers, and students are up to!
Here are last quarter’s numbers:
This quarterly report includes:
Infographics can be powerful and influential tools in public health communication. A clear and appealing visual can quickly and effectively explain and encourage personal behavior changes to improve public health.
No public health communication has been more important this past year than the message of encouraging face mask-wearing to curb the spread of COVID-19.
To help encourage mask-wearing, graduate students in the Jefferson College of Population Health created infographics to encourage their fellow students and the public to mask up. Check out some of their infographics below and view the complete collection on the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). Share these infographics to help encourage mask-wearing!
Check out the complete collection of infographics on the JDC.
This April, we’re adding 25 eBooks to our digital collection. Issues discussed in this collection span a wide range of topics, including graphic design, the role that architecture can play in social equality and sustainability, fashion journalism, and more.
Check out the new titles below or visit our website to access the full online collection.
Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design
Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming-Animated
Beyond Greenwash? Explaining Credibility in Transnational Eco-Labeling
Choice Architecture: A New Approach to Behavior, Design, and Wellness
Construction Project Management: An Integrated Approach
Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy
Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice
Elements of Sustainable Architecture
Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital
Fashion Marketing and Communication: Theory and Practice Across the Fashion Industry
Fast Fashion Systems: Theories and Applications
From Doxiadis’ Theory to Pikionis’ Work: Reflections of Antiquity in Modern Architecture
Graphic Design: Learn It, Do It
Graphic Design for Architects: A Manual for Visual Communication
Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing
Historical Pattern Archive: Women’s Clothing 1837-1969
A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture: 1700-2014
Human Health Benefits of Plant Bioactive Compounds: Potentials and Prospects
Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data
Information Systems: What Every Business Student Needs to Know
Interior Design: A Global Profession
Making Architecture Through Being Human: A Handbook of Design Ideas
Reverse Design: A Current Scientific Vision from the International Fashion and Design Congress
On Friday, April 16, join fellow Jeffersonians as the university participates in One Book, One Philadelphia. The city-wide event, organized by the Free Library of Philadelphia, encourages people to read and discuss The Tradition by Jericho Brown. Learn more and register for the university’s event: jefferson.libguides.com/onebookonephiladelphia
One Book, One Philadelphia Discussion
Friday, April 16, 12-1 pm
Register: https://library.jefferson.edu/ql/obop/
Open to all, this virtual conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Jaymie Orphanidys, Director, Diversity Equity Inclusion Education, in the Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement. We will discuss topics covered in The Tradition, a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poems that explores racialized violence and the history of oppression in America while celebrating Black and queer experiences.
The event will be introvert-friendly, giving attendees the freedom to participate in the discussion however they wish (video on/off, speaking/using chat to comment, silently participating).
Once you register, visit this website to get your copy of The Tradition and learn more about the book and the city-wide One Book, One Philadelphia initiative.
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The Jefferson login screen will get a new look on Monday, March 15, after 8 p.m. The refresh will not require any action by you, and will not change the function. You will still enter your username and password to access any of about 50 corporate applications.
The screen modification will align more closely with the look of other Jefferson applications. This message is for informational purposes. Email the Identity Management team if you have any questions or concerns.
The Spring 2021 edition of the Research Support Newsletter is here! In the report, you’ll find details on tools to assist with research and support available at every stage of the research and publication process. These resources are available to all Center City and East Falls faculty, clinicians, students, and staff through a site-wide license paid for by the Jefferson Libraries.
Center City Newsletter
East Falls Newsletter
Check out the newsletter to learn more about:
Visit the Gutman and Scott websites to learn more about the support available to you.
This March, our new additions span a wide range of topics. eBooks discuss fashion buying in the digital space, the role of African American midwives in the 20th century South, the history of Philadelphia, and much more. Check out the 25 titles below or browse our complete collection: Gutman or Scott.
Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again
Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
Culturally Competent Compassion: A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners
Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader
Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South
Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies
Digital Type Design for Branding: Designing Letters from Their Source
Disasters in Paradise: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions
Diversity in the Great Unity: Regional Yuan Architecture
Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies
Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self
Fashion Buying and Merchandising: The Fashion Buyer in a Digital Society
Fashioning Identity: Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion
Fast Facts in Health Information for Nurses
Finishing Our Story: Preparing for the End of Life
How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century
How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Changing Men’s Fashion From the 17th to the 20th Century
How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government and Urban Power
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual Assault: Challenging the Myths
Since its introduction in 2012, Thomas Jefferson University Libraries has championed the use of ORCID iD to researchers, faculty, and students. The Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) is a persistent digital identifier given to authors when they register for an account that allows researchers with similar names to be easily distinguished from one another by the scholarly and publishing community. An ORCID iD will follow an author throughout their career, creating a stable scholarly identity across name, location, and institutional affiliation changes. ORCID iDs play a large part in helping researchers to more securely and reliably claim their scholarly identity.
Over the years, ORCID has become increasingly prevalent in all areas of research and scholarly communications. More than five million ORCID iDs have been created, and these iDs have increasingly become required by publishers and funders (such as the NIH). Many other systems have also incorporated ORCID iDs into their workflow, enabling the easy migration of content to and from ORCID to third-party vendors, such as the Pivot database, which uses an author profile to help researchers find grant funding.
While any author, researcher or contributor can create an ORCID iD for free, the infrastructure that supports the platform relies on organizational membership to fund its operations. In addition to the knowledge that Thomas Jefferson University, along with over one thousand other ORCID members, is doing its part to support the global research community, this membership, which began for Jefferson on March 1st, comes with many additional benefits.
All Jeffersonians creating scholarly work are encouraged to register for an ORCID iD. Shortly, through the Office of Faculty Affairs, TJU will introduce the Interfolio platform for faculty annual performance reviews, A/P/T, and other uses. Having an ORCID iD with a curated list of works will enable a smooth transition of publications from CV to Interfolio.
More detailed information about ORCID and how an ORCID iD can benefit all scholarly authors, including students and early career researchers, can be found by watching this video and reading the attached flyer. Thomas Jefferson University Libraries has also created a guide designed to help users create their ORCID iD and begin to import their scholarly activities, including publications, posters, and presentations.
Join the Arlen Specter Center on Thursday, March 25, from 12:30 – 2pm for “The Future of Roe v Wade,” a Zoom panel discussion. Register here.
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. This controversial decision is presently being challenged in many states where laws are being passed that dispute the Court’s ruling. There is a very real possibility that those challenges may come before the Court and that it might overrule its prior decision or extremely limit it. The purpose of the presentation is to provide an expert legal, medical and political panel that explores what rights Roe v Wade recognized, the nature of the controversy, and the consequences of the law being overruled or limited.
The last week of February is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (#NEDAwareness). The goal of the week is to shine the spotlight on eating disorders by educating the public, spreading a message of hope, and putting lifesaving resources into the hands of those in need.
To help with that goal, we put together a list of five items from our collection, including videos and eBooks. The resources cover the emotional, psychological, and physical impact of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorders. Resources also use graphic medicine to cover the cultural and non-medical aspects of eating disorders.
The Clinical Guide to Fertility, Motherhood, and Eating Disorders: From Shame to Self-Acceptance
Encyclopedia of Feeding and Eating Disorders
February marks American Heart Month, a time when doctors and public health professionals highlight the importance of heart health. The goal is to raise awareness of heart disease, which is the number 1 killer of Americans.
The four resources below highlight the differences in heart health according to demographics, including gender and race, and give perspective into what it’s like being a refugee seeking health care in America.
Gender Differences in the Pathogenesis and Management of Heart Disease
Heart of the Matter: Key Concepts in Cardiovascular Science
Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
This month we’re adding 26 titles to our collection. These books span a range of topics, including costume design, art therapy, cancer rehabilitation, LGBTQ mental health, and more.
Check out the new titles below or browse our complete collection here (SML) or here (Gutman).
Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists
Adaption for Animation: Transforming Literature Frame by Frame
Assessment in Speech-language Pathology: A Resources Manual
The Atlas of Emergency Medicine
The Atlas of Emergency Radiology
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Cancer Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice
Clinical Chemistry: Principles, Techniques, and Correlations
Cognitive Communication Disorders
Costume Design for Video Games: An Exploration of Historical and Fantastical Skins
Cultural and Religious Sensitivity: A Pocket Guide for Health Care Professionals
Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Geriatrics
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (2021)
Essential Psychotherapies: Theory and Practice
Handbook of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Handbook of Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care: A Guide for Nurses, Physicians, and Other Health Professionals
LGBTQ Mental Health: International Perspectives and Experiences
Ma and Mateer’s Emergency Ultrasound
The Maternal Health Crisis in America: Nursing Implications for Advocacy and Practice
Mathematics for the Clinical Laboratory
Professional Guide to Diseases