Circle of Support group @ Central

While the MILP group was learning about new items at the November meeting, I was @ Central teaching the new teachers Library "stuff" to assist them. Our group is called "Circle of Support." We have experienced teachers and new ones together, working as a team. My lesson utilized the LCD projector and hands-on resources. The teachers were exposed to the following topics.

• The online learning resources subscriptions from spps, elm and Central
• How to do research using keywords, boolean, truncation, wild cards, etc.
• Difference between search engines and databases and even meta search engines like clusty.com
• How to do a "smart google search" (five steps listed previously in another blog)
• Why we need to get on board with Urban Planet websites
• What are directories, invisible web searchable sites and invisible web databases (from robertlackie.com (permission from Rider University)

My next project is to add to the Research process to assist teachers to grasp the twelve steps from the University of MN on how to help students edit their work in a scholarly manner ( ie common mistakes). I will send the link in my next blog.

What a nice concept to collaborate with colleagues! Ah, to have more time....