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WebCT Courseware and Library Instruction
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Laura Burtle Assoc. Univ. Librarian, Georgia
State University Cliff Landis Reference
Librarian, Valdosta State University
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• Going to where the students (and faculty) are
• Over 5500 WebCT sections in University System in
  Fall 2006
• Over 1500 sections at Georgia State
• Point of need instruction

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• Adding Library Resources to WebCT courses
• Organizer Page
• Easiest method
• Use existing materials as they are
• Learning Module
• Fully integrated

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Organizer Page Link out to library pages Open
new window Student loses WebCT Embed library
pages within WebCT Branding issues
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Template overload!
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• Adding Library Resources to WebCT courses
• Learning Module
• Create page within WebCT

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• Types of Content
• Research Guides
• Persistent Links/Open-URLs
• Persistent Searches
• Link to Electronic Reserves
• Anything with a URL
• Content is always pulled from the URL
• Update on your site updated in WebCT

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Using EZProxy prefix for off-campus access
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• Adding Library Services to WebCT courses
• Ask-a-librarian link
• Librarian access to class discussion board
• Librarian email (WebCT or not)
• Office hours in Chat

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When Youve Finally Got em by the
Grades Teaching a Graduate-Level Information
Literacy Course
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Background

• ITED 7900 Library Research Methods for Online
  Students
• Timeline 2002-present
• Developers
• Department of Curriculum and Instruction
  Technology
• Odum Library
• Completely online and asynchronous.

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Structure

• Six weeks (June July).
• Introduction to online research
• Information types, constructing a search strategy
• Online catalogs, books theses
• Dissertations, periodicals online databases
• Online databases (contd) information
  evaluation
• Internet resources, Government documents, Tests
  and Measurements
• Weekly discussion boards
• Weekly worksheets
• Search Log
• Analysis of Research Process
• Annotated Bibliography

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Making it Interesting

• Students research their own topics.
• Keeping a lighthearted attitude.
• they were so interesting in fact that I
  downloaded an article to go through on my own
  time (Gasp!). Student
• MUHAHAHA! MY EVIL LIBRARIAN POWERS ARE WORKING!
  BEHOLD, RESEARCHING AND LEARNING ARE FUN! evil
  grin gt-) My response
• Introducing websites for weekly discussion.
• The Information Cycle
• EPIC 2014
• The WayBack Machine
• Wikipedia
• RYT Hospital
• Snopes

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Students Can Help

• Peer Help discussion board
• Allowed students to answer each others
  questions.
• Kept the weekly discussion board free from
  discussion of technical problems.
• Suggestion Box (anonymous)
• Allowed me to find out what students wanted done
  differently
• No waiting until the end of the semester.
• Can improve the course mid-flow.

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Advice

• Be aware of your workload.
• Dont count on students to be
• techno-savvy,
• familiar with your citation style of choice,
• or even good writers.
• Be prepared to update the course material yearly,
  and throughout the course.

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Reactions

• By having a semester-long course on information
  literacy, students were able to engage the
  concepts of the course.
• By having a grade, students were more compelled
  to master the material.
• Students wished that they had taken the course
  earlier in their educational careers, or that the
  course were required.
• Students had a head-start on literature reviews
  for their theses and dissertations.

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Questions?
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