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NC*AGING e-newsletter #9
a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center
August 1, 2001
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SPECIAL FOCUS ON EDUCATION
Welcome back faculty and students! As the Fall 2001 semester is about to
get underway, this special issue of NC*AGING will focus on aging
education.

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AGING & HEALTH COURSE
The IOA is sponsoring an interdisciplinary, 3-credit course at UNC-CH
this Fall designed to provide students with a general background in
aging and problems of older persons. It is open to undergraduate juniors
and seniors, and to graduate students in all disciplines. See the course
web site for more details:
http://www.aging.unc.edu/courses/aginghealth/

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GUIDE TO LIBRARY RESEARCH ON AGING TOPICS
The IOA Information Center has developed a brief online guide for
students about using library resources to research aging topics. The
guide is available at:
http://www.aging.unc.edu/infocenter/tutorials/researchaging.html

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CONFERENCE PAPERS ON GERONTOLOGY EDUCATION
The AGHE (Association for Gerontology in Higher Education) Annual
Meeting in 2000 focused on the use of technology in gerontology
education.  Papers from that meeting are published in a recent issue of
the journal Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, entitled Blending
Pedagogy and Technology: The Virtual Classroom of the 21st Century (vol
21, n 1/2). This journal issue is available for use in the IOA
Information Center Library.

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INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
Need help creating a discussion forum for a class?  Want to put up a
class web site?  UNC-CH has a one-stop database that can point you in
the right direction -- it's called "Compass" and it is available online
at http://compass.unc.edu/.  Not at UNC-CH?  Other UNC campuses can try
searching for resources at the UNC TLT (Teaching and Learning with
Technology) web site: http://www.unctlt.org/tlt/.

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FEATURED WEB SITE: AGHE
http://www.aghe.org/
The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) web site has
information on conferences, scholarships, and publications in the field
of aging education. This web site and others have been selected for
inclusion in AGELIB, the Institute on Aging's database of aging
resources. You can search AGELIB at:
http://www.aging.unc.edu/infocenter/agelib/

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UPCOMING EVENTS IN NC
A complete calendar is available at http://aging.unc.edu/calendar.html

None in August

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EDUCATION RESOURCES AVAILABLE
These are a few highlights from the IOA Information Center collection.
Our entire collection of resources (including print materials, full text
electronic materials, and web sites) is searchable via our database,
AGELIB, at http://aging.unc.edu/infocenter/agelib/.

Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. (2000). Directory of
educational programs in gerontology and geriatrics. Washington, D.C:
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
IOA call number: LC5467 A8 2000

Generations Together. (2001). Intergenerational service learning in
gerontology [video]. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh:
Generations Together.
IOA call number: AV UPGT 2001

Shenk, Dena & Sokolovsky, Jay. (1999). Teaching about aging :
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Chicago: Association
for Gerontology in Higher Education.
IOA call number: HQ1064. U5 T43 1999

Yeo, Gwen (Ed.). (2000). Core curriculum in ethnogeriatrics. Palo Alto,
CA: Stanford University.
Available online: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnoger/

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Copyright 2001
UNC Institute on Aging
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