How Basic is Basic? – Kathleen Stacy<\/b><\/p>\n
She is talking about one-shot reference sessions. It was nice to see her say that it\u2019s better to have the students come to a one-shot reference session without much of a plan than for them not to be brought at all. I\u2019ve heard some people say \u201cI won\u2019t teach a general library session that isn\u2019t tied to a library assignment!\u201d You can suggest to professors that they tie instruction to an assignment, but I\u2019d certainly rather see students get some introduction to the library than none.<\/em><\/p>\n There are so many things you can teach when you\u2019re doing an information literacy session and you can\u2019t cover everything in an hour. <\/p>\n Important to have —<\/p>\n She mentioned a product, I think it was called LAN School, that locks down the computers while teaching so that students don\u2019t surf the Web while the lecture part of the instruction session is going on. We SO need this at my school! <\/p>\n What to include in presentation: <\/p>\n What to leave out: Jargon, advanced features, personal information, evaluation of resources and results (just this is a book review, not why this is relevant to the search). A lot of info like accessing stuff from off-campus and advanced searching should really be on the handout (how about on a Web site? Don\u2019t students often throw away handouts?<\/em>).<\/p>\n She usually leaves the stuff about being critical of information resources out of the session because it means that she can spend less time on the library resources. She tells the professors not to allow students to use stuff from outside of the databases. Hmmm\u2026 not sure if that\u2019s the best way to do things. Should we be telling our students that Google is bad? I can see requiring some articles from databases, but suggesting that students not use Google at all is just as silly as saying that students should only use Google. Google has many things databases do not — esepcially government info — and it’s a bad idea to give students the impression that everything worthwhile is in the databases.<\/em><\/p>\n Wikis in the Classroom: Powerful Tools for Library Instruction \u2013 Chad Boeninger<\/b><\/p>\n Chad works at Ohio University where he is the liaison to the college of business (1700 students). He usually teaches 15-20 classes per year and information literacy is not a standard requirement in the curriculum. All of the classes he needs to teach are on a variety of subjects (popcorn industry, paperclip industry, SWOT analyses, etc.). <\/p>\n Most libraries have research guides or pathfinders. As they grow, they start becoming completely unmanageable. Chad created a wiki that he uses to describe business resources and make them well-organized and searchable. A lot of the information described here was described in his session on Wikis<\/a>, so I\u2019m going to leave it out. Chad did a tremendous job and really inspired me to consider how we can use Wikis instructionally at Norwich.<\/p>\n [tags]cil2006[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How Basic is Basic? – Kathleen Stacy She is talking about one-shot reference sessions. It was nice to see her say that it\u2019s better to have the students come to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-trends","category-wikis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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