Libraries & Teaching at IUB

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Online critical thinking tutorial

From the web4lib list -- I haven't looked closely at this but it looks interesting:


>From the press release:
Internet Detective - Back on the Case
Internet Detective, a free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research, is being launched on the Web on June 13th in the RDN Virtual Training Suite
at:
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
The tutorial offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites and highlights the need for care when selecting online information sources to inform university or college work.

Friday, June 09, 2006

What does MySpace have to do with us?

Here is an interesting article (by a VP at SIRSI, no less) about what libraries may have to learn from environments/applications such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, etc. -- more questions than answers here, but there are some interesting implications for instruction. I especially liked the reminder that "Learning is essentially a social activity."

Comment and let me know what you think!

http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000577776.cfm

-Anne

Friday, June 02, 2006

Google jockeying

From Educause, here's an article on a phenomenon I'd never heard of before -- "Google jockeying". http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7014.pdf

In the "Scenario" section there's a nice account of what happens when the instructor takes on the role and shows the students how they could be finding better information. I wonder if any faculty members would be interested in having a librarian serve as "Google jockey" occasionally?