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:
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
474 works posted
204,529 downloads
5,828 streams
201 countries visited the site
6,257 institutions accessed content
This quarterly report includes:
Articles
Dissertations
Grand Rounds and Lectures
JCPH Capstone Presentations
Journals and Newsletters
Know Diabetes by Heart Meetings
Library Resources
MPH COVID-19 Infographics(new!)
Posters
Scholarly Inquiry Graphics
The Big in Big Data Symposium
What People are Saying About the Jefferson Digital Commons
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).