UQL Cyberschool

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Bringing online electronic resources to your
school
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Todays Objectives

• Raise awareness about available online resources
• Describe a range of resources suitable for
  schools
• Gather ideas for using the resources in classrooms

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Issues inherent

• Enormous range of resources available
• Expense
• Connectivity / access
• Use

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Appeal?
"Thanks, but I'd rather get my financial advice
off the Internet."
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Changing student expectations

• Students
• Expect materials to be online
• Spend more time in activities that compete with
  school
• Increasingly find it difficult to become
  motivated by study.

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Our Student range
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10 Attributes ?Information-age (Millennial)
mindset

• Computers arent technology
• The Internet is better than TV
• Reality is no longer real
• Doing is more important than knowing
• Learning more closely resembles Nintendo than
  logic
• Multitasking is a way of life
• Typing is preferred to handwriting
• Staying connected is essential
• There is zero tolerance for delays
• Consumer and creator are blurring
• Jason Frand, The Information Age Mindset
  Changes in students Implications for Higher
  Education, EDUCAUSE Review 35, no.5
  (September/October 2000)15-24

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Millennials
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How old are you?

• Everything thats already in the world when
  youre born is just normal
• Anything that gets invented between then and
  before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and
  creative and with any luck you can make a career
  out of it
• Anything that gets invented after youre thirty
  is against the natural order of things and the
  beginning of the end of civilization as we know
  it until its been around for about ten years
  when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

? Apply this list to movies, rock music, word
processors and mobile phones to work out how old
you are. http//www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901
-00-a.html
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Flexible Learning

• Students now want to choose how, where, and when
  they learn. Greater flexibility of service
  delivery facilitates this independent
  user-centred student learning.
• Flexible learning often requires innovative
  technological solutions and students now expect
  web access to a wide variety of course materials
  (eg. Exam papers, lecture notes, journals, books,
  etc.).

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Flexible Learning ? Flexible Delivery

• Flexible delivery is the term used to describe
  means by which facilitation of effective,
  student-centred learning may be implemented (such
  as methods to deliver course content in new and
  novel ways).
• Flexible delivery includes the provision of
  resources and the application of technologies to
  create, store and distribute course content and
  enrich communications to engender more effective
  learning.

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Which leads us to..
You dont see the feet madly paddling to make
flexible delivery a reality!
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We have lots of information technology. We just
dont have any information.
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For staff

• How do I keep current?
• How do I evaluate to select appropriate
  resources?
• How do I use the resources?
• How do I promote their use in classrooms?

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How do I keep current?

• Dont reinvent the wheel

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UQL Cyberschoolwww.cybrary.uq.edu.au/schools
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What is the UQL Cyberschool?

• The UQL Cyberschool provides teachers and
  students in Queensland schools with access to
  quality electronic resources for effective
  teaching and learning.

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UQL Cyberschool Services

• Discounted access to e-journals and online
  databases
• Free Trials also available
• Search Gateway
• Internet sites by Subject Searchable Database
• Virtual Reference Collection
• Free database access
• Whats New on the Web

• Access to the UQ Cybrary resources
• Online Catalogue
• Findits/Useits
• Training
• Students
• Staff
• Professional Development
• Annual Seminar
• Hands on Workshops

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UQL Cyberschool Services

• Support information and critical literacy
• Support the integration of ICTs into the
  curriculum
• Ease the transition from Secondary school to
  University

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What resources are available to schools?
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Databases

• Databases with Full text journal and newspaper
• Reference Databases
• Subject Databases
• Science
• English
• History
• S.O.S.E.
• The Arts

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Database Trials available
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Internet Resources for Schools
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Internet Sites Database
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Virtual Reference Collection
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Research Gateways

• Agrigate
• an Australian agriculture information gateway for
  researchers.
• Avel
• Australian Virtual Engineering Library is a
  portal to quality internet sites chosen by
  experts on environmental, engineering and
  computer science.
• WebLaw
• a legal researcher's first choice for accessing
  online Australian legal information

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Internet search tools
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How do I evaluate to select resources?

• Database evaluation
• http//www.library.uq.edu.au/schools/cyberdbasestr
  ial.html
• Web site evaluation
• http//www.library.uq.edu.au/internet/inteval.html
  
• Recommendation from trusted sources

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Database evaluation

• http//www.library.uq.edu.au/schools/cyberdbasestr
  ial.html
• Search facilities
• Content
• Year/Age level suitability
• Cost
• Internal support

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Evaluate Web sites found http//www.library.uq.ed
u.au/internet/inteval.html
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Links to other authoritative sites

• EDNA Online
• Curriculum Exchange
• ABC Online
• Professional links for teachers
• State Library

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Just because its possible doesnt mean its
legal!
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Citation guides
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Using databases in your classrooms

• Consider PURPOSE
• Searching skills
• Most appropriate source
• Comparison of search results
• Compile a Reading List
• Work with information located

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Searching Skills

• Effective keywords
• Broader and narrower terms
• Boolean operators
• Snowballing

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Appropriate sources

• Databases
• Internet
• Print Books, journals
• Video, CD Rom, Software
• Bibliographies

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Integrating Online Electronic Resources -
Pathfinder / Findit
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Comparison of search results

• Print and Internet
• Print and Database
• Database and Internet

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Comparison of sources

• Number of resources
• Identified author/s
• Authority
• Type of information
• Scope
• Date / recency
• Bibliography

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Integrating Online Electronic Resources -
Reading Lists
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Compile a Reading List

• Teacher can
• Select most pertinent articles
• Link with PURLs
• Access from Intranet

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Work with located information

• Set activities based on selected articles
• Comparisons with other source material e.g. text
  book
• Extension exercises based on findings
• Draw conclusions
• Evaluate data

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Training for students

• Students
• Tour of UQ Branch Library
• Training session on locating research material
• Emphasis on information literacy skills

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Training for teachers

• On site training in subscribed database search
  and use
• Hands on workshops
• Advanced Information Retrieval
• Updates
• Seminar

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Thinking about future implications makes all the
difference
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Contact UQL Cyberschool

• Database Information, Trials and Subscriptions
• To discuss Online Electronic resource
  availability
• Training for staff
• Tours and training for students
• Assistance with integrating ICTs in the
  curriculum

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UQL Cyberschool

• UQL Cyberschool Coordinators
• Liz Blumson
• Noeleen Fleming
• WEB www.cybrary.uq.edu.au/schools
• Email cyberschool_at_library.uq.edu.au

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