Tuesday, February 20, 2007

LCC Librarians Blogging!

TS colleagues, check out the Library Instruction Contact Information web page! Several colleagues' names link to blogs used for instructional purposes with students.

At the time of this post, Karl and Suzanne B. have joined Kim's exploration of blogs to generate student feedback. Kim recently commented to the post Edu-Blog, where she describes how the blog works as a sounding board for sessions.

Librarians, please keep us posted on your progress!

1 comment:

Kim said...

Since my last comment in the Edu-Blog posting I have added a research tip to my blog. Many students commented about how they were glad to know about using the asterisk for truncating words. So I put that tip there for other students.

I'm still exploring how to use the blog for more research tips. I'm not sure how to get students to come back for future or additional research information.

Suzanne B. mentioned that she might try using her blog in an instruction session as a way for students to generate synonyms for search terms. I like this idea. We could even turn it into a game to see which group of students or teams could generate the best / most words. This would be an immediate and visual way for students to see others' ideas.

Any other ideas?

Hopefully, more to come...