I had a conversation with a student today that went something like this:
Him: Have you heard about Bloglines?
Me: Yeah, it’s awesome isn’t it?
Him: And Del.icio.us?
Me: So cool.
Him: It would have been great if we had covered some stuff like this in Lib 100.
Which got us to talking about a somewhat different class. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could offer a one hour course in information finding for the “real world?” Then seniors with good library skills wouldn’t feel the need to fill their one hour requirement with something they know; they could learn all kinds of cool new things. Anyone who took it might get interested in doing web research for fun. The impact might last far beyond college. They could be lifelong learners! I imagine the 15 week break-down as follows.
Week 1: Introduction/Web 2.0
Week 2: Blogs
Week 3: Podcasting
Week 4: Wikis
Week 5: Social Bookmarking
Week 6: Online Photo Sharing
Week 7: Social Networking Sites
Week 8: Tagging and Technorati
Week 9: RSS and aggregators
Week 10: Copyright Issues
Week 11: Remix & Mash-up Culture
Week 12: Show-and-Tell
Week 13: Show-and-Tell cont./What Could Be Next?/What Could the Library Do?
Week 14: Managing Information Flow (aka How Not To Drown In It All)
Week 15: Wrap-up
I also imagine a running blog discussing the student’s perception of the technology, its usefulness, and its potential for their lives.
Of course, I’m just playing around here. Without spending much time on this, I’m sure I left many cool things out. Does anyone know of a program or course like this for undergraduates?
Update: So, maybe it’s not a 15 class course, but I’ve worked it out to do a one-day summary of the above for my LIB 100 course this semester. Yay!
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Hey! The class I teach at Dominican has many of thses elements. My dream class for SLIS students has all of them. Good work!
Posted 14 Jan 2006 at 4:55 am ¶Your class sounds great! I agree, it’d be extremely useful for all SLIS students to have a background in these elements. Not only do they have an impact on our users’ information context, but they’re excellent ways for us to learn more about our own profession!
Posted 16 Jan 2006 at 11:34 pm ¶Your class sounds great! I agree, it'd be extremely useful for all SLIS students to have a background in these elements. Not only do they have an impact on our users' information context, but they're excellent ways for us to learn more about our own profession!
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[...] In my LIS 688 Library Instruction class, we’ve recently talked about tutorials. While I was checking several out, I realized that a wiki could fit the bill (and more quickly, easily, collaboratively, and cheaply) that many tutorials fill. With really close attention to wayfinding within the wiki, “chapters” could be pages, with links to other pages when more detail is needed. This could correlate with an information literacy course, and could be integrated into any course management software the insitution might use. Potentially, using a wiki in this way could make the tutorial something more than a tutorial, but also a reference guide that could have information dealing with all kinds of aspects of information seeking behavior. There could be pages dealing with traditional library research, pages for databases, pages for internet research, and pages for useful social information sources. I think it could be great! [...]
[...] Blog without a library posts about a LIS course in social software. It looks awesome! It’s a lot like what I was thinking of when I wrote about a library 102 class. It’d also be a great workshop for professional development. [...]
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