Teaching Strategies

Erik on Google Books

• Blog post in Gaz on Google Books timeline

Google Books Settlement page

ZSR Library blog entries discussing the settlement

Timeline of developments on Cnet

The EU perspective on Google Books

NyTimes coverage

Editorial by Sergey Brin

• Maybe take the last three and compare
• Easy to incorporate current issues by doing research on web on really current topic
• This gives librarians a good opportunity to discuss evaluation and criticism
• Both the topic and the exercise allows to talk about what it means that it becomes digital and copyright
• Could have people search on both VuFind or Classic or Google Books and share results

Giz & Mary Scanlon on Net Neutrality

• There were 4 Rules of Net Neutrality

1. Accessing content.
2. Using applications.
3. Attaching personal devices.
4. Obtaining service plan information.

• The FCC Chairman added 2 new rules

5. New rule: Non-discrimination.
6. New rule: Transparency.

• Discussion of AT&T gadget that you can get for an additional $20 a month to improve cell phone signal in your house.

Roz on using Newspapers

• Lib 210 and Lib100
• We also discussed Current.tv as a new model
• Plaigarism & quoting wikipeida
• Interesting question: how does a new story change as others report it?
• Interesting question: how do people see corrections if they just do searches?

Kaeley on incorporating these issues into classes

• How do you frame a class?
• Do you tell them its important? Or do you let them read and decide?
• Could do interviews: parents, professors, W-S Journal
• Choose information related research topic

Kate on still incorporating library skills

• Law: the challenge is to show that the tools for the past 200 years still have value (such as controlled vocabulary)
• Activity: split class into two groups–one for books and one for online.
• Books had to use controlled vocabulary, but internet did not (they could, but didn’t realize that)
• Books ran into a few problems like books not being on the shelf. However they found relevant information. The internet group found books with the right keywords, but nothing legally relevant.
• Showed the group the benefit of using print
• Online it’s harder to see the connect (it’s not as intuitive)
• Books make the hierarchy and organization very clear and easy to use
• She could then who how to use print like tools online
• Help students see they’re searching the abstract rather than the full text
• Level of subject heading is so broad
• Discussion of how this applies to other subjects. For example, in Eric, you’d get very different results from “teenagers” rather than “adolescents” or from “mathematics” rather than “math.” Helps students learn value of thesaurus.
• Could do something similar with Google News or Finance vs. Business Source Complete
• Could do something similar with advanced Google searching limited to .com vs. .edu
• Could compare the first five hits from Google vs. Google Scholar
• Discussion of how important search is, made more evident by the Netflix Challenge winners.