Recently I've been reading literature about Academic Library 2.0, including Michael Habib's thesis on the topic and a Choice "Bibliographic Essay" by Elyssa Kroski on the various uses of Web 2.0 in academic libraries. This lead my mind to think about how these 2.0 tools could be integrated into information literacy instruction. It would seem that there are some parallels between library resources and web resources. Additionally, we know that students are becoming more and more involved with web 2.0 applications (Facebook and MySpace are easily recognizable examples). Perhaps there is a way to link the two that will effectively increase students familiarity and comfortability in using library resources.
Since it is the SJSU English 1B classes that I have been teaching, I envisioned the integration into this particular course. Currently (Spring 2008) the students are broken into groups based on the library resource they are assigned. Once they have explored it, they are supposed to prepare a presentation for the class to demonstrate how to effectively utilize their given resource. I'm curious if the group activities could be done to include having the students compare the "direct" library resources with the "web" resources? For example, comparing the Library Catalog with Amazon.com, CQ Researcher/Opposing Viewpoints with Wikipedia, and Academic Search Premier with Google Scholar. Students would still work in groups and make presentations but they would have to think about how these resources differ, and what makes one "good" and "bad" to use. I don't know the practicality of this idea or how useful/successful it would actually be but my thoughts are a-brewin'.
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