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Comments closedAnother cool idea that came out of the Reference Symposium was generated at the session on Learner-Centered Instruction run by Aimee Whiteside and Barb Horvath. We were all working in small groups to plan our response to a given scenario: students didn’t know the differences between scholarly and popular journals, and we were to design a tutorial to help them navigate between the two kinds of publications. Can it possibly be coincidence that two groups independently came up with the same strategy? We were separated by an entire room and about 100 people, but we both decided that bits and pieces of the tutorial should be embedded in the databases themselves so that when a student wonders whether a citation is a scholarly source or not, he or she could just click on the help button and get walked through the decision from right within the database. Why isn’t this possible? Is it possible?
Comments closedA co-worker just alerted me to Google Notebook. It’s kind of like a web version of EverNote. I’m still playing around with it, but if you have it’s associated Firefox extension plugged in you can get little icons next to search results which will shoot the result page into your notebook. You can open your notebook by clicking the icon that gets embedded into the bottom bar of your browser, and you can edit you notes. You can also have several notebooks and choose which you want to be public and which you want to be private.
Google’s taking over the world!
2 CommentsHere’s an excellent post by Lorcan Dempsey about the catalog and the user.
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