Browsing by Subject "Internet literacy"

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    Googlewhacking: Exploiting Google in an Instruction Classroom
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Atwater-Singer, Meg
    Most students already use Google, so why not exploit its teaching and learning potential in a library instruction classroom? University of Evansville Libraries (UEL) introduces concepts such as keyword selection, search construction and techniques, invisible/visible web, Google as a business and more by having students use Google. This article will describe how to incorporate a critical review of Google by employing a Googlewhacking exercise into an instruction session and generating questions to get students thinking critically about information.
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    Highway Guide: Teaching lnternet Skills
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 1997) Zick, Laura
    No doubt about it, library users are feeling the weight and stress of information overload. In addition to the sheer enormity of the amount of information "out there," the tools used to archive, categorize, and access . information are becoming increasingly complex. No group understands this overload better than those of us who work in libraries. Like our users, we struggle daily to keep up with our reading, wade through all our e-mail, and identify and learn to use new sources of information, and new access tools. Unlike our users, however, we are obligated by dejinition, to provide what I call "information guidance" - the best access to quality information. Library staff members must proactively rise to the challenge and must provide guidance through the infomation glut. I watch the users in our library. What do they state that they need? What do they need that they do not know they need? How can we use new technologies to improve their access to information? How can we best point them toward the most accurate, timely, and useful information? As the complexity of the tools increases, the need for training in the use of the tools increases. If we are to guide, we must educate. In the case of the library where I work, the Clarian Health Partners Medical Library, we are part of the Educational Services Department, and so, specifically charged with educating users.
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    Instructional Partnerships:TeamTeaching Global Politics and the Web
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 1997) Ramus, Francesca Lane; Larson, Christine M.
    Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the bibliographic instruction program at Earlham College has facilitated strong instructional partnerships between teaching faculty and librarians. Given the growth in information sources available via the Internet, these partnerships now extend beyond the realm of traditional library instruction. One example of how this has evolved at Earlham is the two-year partnership of these authors, who have been part of a team that teaches political science students to create World Wide Web (WWW) pages reflecting topical research and analysis. Successful instructional partnerships are critical to the success of this endeavor. This article describes and evaluates how an assignment that uses the WWW to research and present a global problem was team-taught during the spring 1997 semester, paying particular attention to the instructional partnerships, and their advantages and problems. Reasons for the success of the team teaching methods are discussed.
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    Internet Programming at the Small Public Library
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 1997) Bell, Vicky L.; Williams, Michael Alan, 1963-
    Successful library programming of any sort requires the cooperation of everyone involved. Attempting to present something as complex as the Internet involves the highest degree of cooperation possible. Through two different programs presented at the West Indianapolis Branch of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library (I-MCPL), the subject of the Internet in general, and the Wold Wide Web in particular, was introduced and explained to a variety of program attendees. Both programs were presented by librarians working together to convey accurate and relevant information gained from personal experiences as both information professionals and end users of Internet access services.