At Kent State University all undergraduate teaching majors must take the following four courses: Education in a Democratic Society, Educational Technology, Educational Psychology, and Introduction to Exceptionalities. In the fall semester of 2006 the Liaison Librarian for Education started incorporating library training into these four classes. After this trial semester it was decided to offer the instruction in a workshop format to alleviate unnecessary duplication between courses, resulting in our TAG Course Program. This was the first systematic instruction for undergraduate teaching majors at Kent State, prior to this no instruction had focused on these students. Student in the four courses are required to take three separate workshops depending on the needs of the course. The workshops are Navigating Education Databases, APA Citation Style, and Savvy Internet Searching. By the time the students have completed their four courses they will have completed all of the library workshops. In Navigating Education Databases students are taught the difference between types of periodicals (scholarly, trade, and popular), how to form good search strategies, and how to use the education databases efficiently and effectively. In Savvy Internet Searching the students learn the differences between searching on the Internet and the library databases as well as how to evaluate information on the Internet. The workshop APA Citation Style introduces students to the basics of APA, including citing print and electronic resources, formulating a reference list and basic parenthetical citations. The Navigating Education Databases and APA Citation Style Workshops are offered both in person and online, the Savvy Internet Searching Workshop is only offered online.
Students will be able to successfully design and apply search strategies to library databases.
Students will be able to use and cite information in legal and socially acceptable ways.
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A series of self-paced, online modules have been developed in Flash to provide basic library skill instruction to students enrolled in English Composition course. This initiative allows us to reach a large constituency of students with basic instruction that we can then follow up on with more purposeful librarian-led sessions. This program is new and we are testing.
http://www.library.kent.edu/page/11028
Students will be able to design and apply successful search strategies to library databases.
Students will be able to evaluate web sites and information for authority and credibility.
Students will become aware of key library support services and resources.
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