Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Wimba Session topic ideas

- using Worldcat.org to locate books, and obtaining them (local/SUNY libraries, local library ILL, Amazon.com, etc.)

- locating journal articles (known-item and search/browse) - databases, Article Linker, FReD, Citation Linker

- using Multi-database Search

- using the Web for scholarly research (Google Scholar, portal resources, locating the web presence of reliable organizations, assessing online resources)

- locating books (known-item and search/browse) using the E-book Catalog and the individual e-book collections (includes section on the ebrary reader)

- creating citations for various types of material (guide them through using the resources we have on that)

- using EndNote X1

- using Interlibrary Loan (for grad students)

- what is plagiarism; how to avoid it

- doing current events and issues research (newspaper databases, Opposing Viewpoints, CQ resources, web, blogs as resources, etc.)

1 comment:

Dana Longley said...

note: we already have an entry on this - you can see the previous topic suggestions and comments here:
http://empirelibrarians.blogspot.com/2007/07/possible-wimba-session-topics.html