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- Most students entering college this fall, were born in 1982
- Somebody named George Bush has been on every national ticket, except
one, since they were born
- A “45” is a gun, not a record with a large hole in the center
- cartoons, news, movies and rock videos have always been on cable 24/7
- “Spam” and “cookies” are not necessarily foods.
- Mindset of First-Year Students in the Class of 2004” http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/releases/Mindset-List-2004.html
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- Most students have never used microfilm or microfiche
- They have no idea how to use a print index such as the Reader’s Guide
- Most have no clue what a card catalog is and how to use it
- Most students have used Google or Yahoo to complete their high school assignments
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- Over 93 percent of the information produced in 1999 was in digital
format
- Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5
exabytes of new information in 2002.
- How big is five exabytes?
- Library of Congress= 17 million books
- The web=17 libraries the size of LC book collection
- 5 Exabytes= 37,000 libraries the size of LC book collection.
- Some 10,000 new Web sites are launched daily (Source: Business Week,
June 21, 1999)
- As of November 2000 there were 26,161,187 web pages
- As of November 2004 there were 44,158,128 web pages
- The daily New York Times now contains more information that the 17th
century man or woman would have encountered in a lifetime.
(Wurman, S.A. (1987) Information Anxiety. New York:
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- Student’s Mindset + Information Explosion + 13 librarians
+ 34,000 students
- =The need for SURF
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- Adopted by the library in June 2004
- Instruction Plan Overview
- GE Instruction
- Transfer Students
- Distance and Online Learning
- Subject Specific Targeted Instruction
- Faculty Seminars
- Each section has methods of instruction and specific learning outcomes
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- COMM 130, ENGL 100, etc.
- Targeted because they are often student’s first course to require use
of library resources in a predictable manner (research paper, speech)
- Why a tutorial?
- Manpower
- Allows for point of need usage
- Allows flexibility for faculty
- Flexibility for students
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- Pedagogy
- Present library research in a fun an interesting format primarily for
freshmen students
- Each module has been developed to meet the standards set forth in the
CSULB Information Literacy Minimum Standards adopted by the library in
1998
- Student learning outcomes
- The tutorial has specific learning outcomes to demonstrate meeting
these standards
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- Instructor assigns part or all of SURF
- Students register and create log-in
- Students answer worksheet questions about their assignment
- Answers are saved each time a student “logs-out”
- At the end—students can email (or print) answers to faculty and
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- Overview
- Students will learn how to get started on a research assignment
- Activities
- Student will create a timeline for research, dissect their assignment,
pick a topic, develop a research question, pick keywords and build
search statement
- Interactive elements
- Library anxiety quiz
- Dissect your assignment
- Assignment calculator
- Keyword builder
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- Overview
- Students will find sources for their topic
- Activities
- Pick the best sources, learn about scholarly vs. popular information,
find an article, find a book, find a web site for their topic
- Interactive elements
- Information Safari
- Surf’s Up
- Dissecting a Database
- Citation Station
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- Overview
- Students will evaluate the information sources they found
- Activities
- Evaluate books, journal articles, web sites, learn tips to comprehend
as they read scholarly material, and to recognize bias
- Interactive elements
- Dissecting a Scholarly Article
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- Overview
- Students will learn how to avoid plagiarism and integrate research into
their writing
- Activities
- Learn writing tips, how to avoid plagiarism, how to use style manuals
and cite quotations
- Interactive Elements
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- Let’s give it a try…
- Erase your mind.
- You are now a college freshman
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- Phase One: Fall Semester 2004
- Librarians will create draft SURF tutorial and worksheet
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- Phase Two: Spring Semester 2005
- Faculty will participate in a focus group to modify content and
questions for worksheet
- SURF will be tested for usability and comprehension with current
students
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- Phase Three: Fall 2005-
- Work with Beach Beginnings faculty to implement beta-testing of the
tutorial in a classroom setting
- Librarians will analyze results and make any modifications
- Full integration of the SURF tutorial in Beach Beginnings
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- How will SURF be integrated into classes?
- As a continual assignment throughout the semester or as an individual
assignment
- Nuts and bolts of operation
- Into BeachBoard?
- Has not been tested however can be added to links page or anywhere a
link can be added
- Some flash sites don’t work in BeachBoard platform. Have students open
site in separate window or use that setting in BeachBoard
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- Working with feeder community colleges
- Other Instructions considerations
- Transfer Students
- Upper Level Instruction vital
- Contact your subject librarian
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- Feedback?
- Contact Tiffini Travis to sign up for PAID focus groups and usability
testing ttravis@csulb.edu
- Potential Problems?
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- Library Instruction page
- Just for Faculty
- Webliography
- How to integrate these concepts (and the library) into assignments
- Get updates on SURF
- Get updates on Library Instruction Projects
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- We are beta-testing during the spring semester and need volunteers for
focus groups and usability testing!
- We need students to test as well
- We are paying!!
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