LIB 5020Information Sources and Services

Class 5 of 6

Agenda

• For the Common Good• Review S&D #3 and #4• Resource Presentations

Geographical Sources Special and Government Sources

• Pathfinders• Homework

For the Common Good

• AETZone Blogs Discussion Boards

• Texts

• CPCP Project

• Other?

Review S&D #3 and #4

Reference Presentations

• SD#5: Geographic Sources (Ch. 10)

• SD#6: Special Sources and Government Sources (Ch. 9 and 12)

Pathfinders

• 5 Pathfinder “Stations”

• 5 groups of 3 students

• Rotate through all 5 stations 10, 7, 5, 5, 3 minutes

• List characteristics, strengths, weaknesses

• Regroup: Two groups

• Compile results - create list of common characteristics

• Share

Pathfinders Continued…

• Project Assignment (Due last class) Create Pathfinder on topic of your choosing

• Format: Wiki (in MediaPedia)• Topic: Your choice (S&D topics)• May use notes from class, template provided, or other resources

Share template documents and sites

Prepare to present at last class (10 minutes - stations) Grading

• 12-13 “components” = C• 14-15 “components” = B• 16+ “components” = A• Must have minimum of 3 items for each “component”

Wikis

• Media Pedia: http://zeno.ced.appstate.edu/wikis/MediaPedia/

• Creating New Pages

• Adding External Links

• Adding Images

• Formatting Pages

• Wiki Help Page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Homework

• Text - Continue Ch. 13-20 (Cassell)

• Blogs Reflections on Pathfinder Project CPCP Projects

• Discussion Boards - discussion of text (Ch. 13-20)

• Pathfinder (in wiki)

• Search and Discuss Assignments Work on #5 and #6

• Next Class - Be prepared to share pathfinders and CPCP Vision