[LM_NET] SHARE: Wiki for Freshman Orientation

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

The recent discussion of using a wiki for database instruction sparked an
idea for the creation of a Freshman Orientation Wiki for my upcoming
Freshman Study Skills---a three week course that I start next week.

I've created a Library Research Wiki which includes pages filled with
questions that must be researched and answered by the students---in a
scavenger hunt-style process.  Rather than giving the students all of the
information (ad nauseum) about what the library provides, I will assign them
the responsibility of researching the library for basic information (hours,
librarians on staff, etc.), how to use the online catalog, and what
databases are offered.  Students will have to complete the wiki assignment
as a group---and each student must examine one of the 90 online
databases and offer information about it  (I will know that they have
completed at least one component if all databases are covered).

In addition to this wiki, students will take the TRAILS evaluation AND we
will examine some "bogus" websites to determine the differences between good
and bad information online.

Please take a look at this wiki and give me some feedback...positive and
negative.  I've been working on this most of the day and night (to prepare
for next week), so if you can offer any ideas, I can make changes over the
weekend.

Here's the link: http://moncrieflibrary.pbwiki.com/

Thanks!

~Shonda






-- 
Shonda Brisco, MLIS
Technology Librarian
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX
http://www.fwcds.org
sbrisco@gmail.com

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