Your Students Are Using the Internet?
What's the Problem?

An Excellence in Teaching Program (ETP)

Work Shop

February 6, 2002

NOTE to Readers:  These pages were designed to support an Excellence in Teaching Session presented at the University of Nevada, Reno, libraries on October 3, 2001.  Some cohesiveness brought to these pages in the context of the session may not be apparent outside the context of the session.

  1. Underlying Information Setting (Problem or Opportunity?)
  2. A Critical Campus Concern, Information Ethics
  3. Reaction, Critical Thinking and Information Literacy
  4. Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Information Literacy?
  5. Solutions? Some Help from the Libraries?
  6. Group Think: Experiences and Possible Assignments?
     

1.  Underlying Information Setting (Problem or Opportunity?)

**ETP Presentation

The Root of the Problem? -- "Being Fluent with Information Technologies"
"Information Literacy: The Web is not an Encyclopedia"
Information Literacy Defined -- ACRL
Information Literacy Definitions
AND Computer Literacy
 

2.  A Critical Campus Concern, Information Ethics

**ETP Presentation

Plagiarism and Cheating
Internet Paper Mills
UNR Student Conduct Information
UNR Computer and Network Use Agreement

The Web -- Countermeasures to plagiarism and cheating

(GOOGLE Web Search Engine)

3.  Reaction, Critical Thinking & Information Literacy

**ETP Presentation

Association of College and Research Libraries
Association for Educational Communications and Technology
"Consider the Source " --  Evaluation of Information Resources

4.  Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Information Literacy?

Your Anthropology 601 assignment is:  Is there Extraterrestrial Life...?
and if so, have they visited us?

Information found on the Web

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrials)
Clues about Extraterrestrial Life
Extraterrestrial Politics
Space, Aliens, and God
The Odyssey of the Gods
The Theological Debate Over Space Exploration
Ancient Astronauts

The Libraries' Indexing & Full text Databases

Academic Search Premier
Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis) (News and some journals)
Marcive Web Docs

Web Search Engines?

(GOOGLE Web Search Engine)

5.  Solutions? Some Help from the Library?

Library Instructional Support Services

Information for Faculty
Subject Pages & Databases
Web-based Information Support for Courses
Web-based Tutorials
Electronic Reserves
Linking to Journal Articles from Syllabi
Classroom Instruction (guest lectures & collaboration in designing effective assignments )
Instruction Request Form
Authentication to Access from Home or Office

6.  Group Think