Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Information Trade books


Handout and checklist

Science: Life, physical, earth and space through systems, inquiry and application

Social Studies: History, civics, economics and geography through skills of using primary sources, critical thinking and perspectives

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Slideshare tool and its uses

http://slideshare.net


Handout from Nov. 12 workshop

Slideshare shares presentations like powerpoint from students, instructors and conference presentations.
I share some of my examples and how it works. This iste has free registration and tools such as statistics of views, tagging and your own account space. You may add audio ( mp3) files to your presentations

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Readability

EDUC 413 Reading in the Content areas

handout about Library resources and readability

Monday, October 26, 2009

EDUC 304

EWU and OSPI Reading Core Instruction Series

handout

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Collabortive Tools Workshop

November 12, 2009 10-11:30 am L23

Details Learn Slideshare, Delicious tagging, Blogger, PBWorks or Wetpiaint wiki and/or Voicethread with examples from K-12 teaching and teacher preparation classes.

You've heard about collaboration and sharing tools, give yourself some time to try them.

RSVP-- minimum 6 to hold the workshop, so share with your friends

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

ENGL 201 Keyword challenges

Information Fluency Keyword Challenges for database searching

More Challenges for Google Searches with times to beat

Keywords- vital words to find what you need
Intermediate words- brings the results closer to your focus
Words of little effect-small words or repetition
Stop words- not used in search engine