Appendix A
TGERI Syllabus
Week I: Introduction and background
- Review of course description and syllabus
- Goals and objectives
- Language goals (e.g., reading, discussion, writing annotations)
- Classroom interaction skills
- Research skills
- Technical knowledge and abilities
- Evaluation and assessment skills (e.g. of databases, individual sources, search engines)
- Specific outcomes
- Procedures/approach/J.F.K. assassination samples
- Terminology
- Anxiety
- Background survey
- Facilities, groups, organization & procedures for assignments
- Reference & citation formats
- Academic honesty
Week II: ALICE
- Overview of Library Homepage
- The Database
- Search strategies
- Title, subject, author, keyword searches
- Printing E-mailing results, downloading results
- Viewing your circulation record
- DialNet considerations
- Practice
- Evaluation
- Review of citation formats, citing electronic resources
- Project thinking & brainstorming
Week III: ALICE vs. Academic Journal Database Searches
- Overview of Alden Library Home Page
- Preparation for academic journal databases
- Interfaces
- Browsing
- Keyword vs. subject searches
- Basic Boolean
- OhioLink menu overview
- Journal article searches vs. book searches
- Search strategies and refinements
- Review of database functions
- Practice sessions
- Evaluation sessions
- Project planning and strategies, proposal for 25 item bibliography
- Writing annotations: Introduction
Week IV: More on Academic Databases
- Accessibility of databases (DialNet, SearchNet, etc.)
- What¹s available?
- Search strategies continued
- Practice sessions
- Evaluation of sources
- Evaluation of databases
- Project work sessions
Week V: More on Academic Journal Databases
- Electronic journals
- Review of databases with assignments
- Review of OhioLink journal databases with assignments
- Review of strategies
- Practice sessions
- Evaluation
- Project work sessions
- Annotation writing: Nuts and Bolts
Week VI: Print material
- Reference room
- Encyclopedias (regular and specialty)
- Reference tools in print
- Practice sessions
- Evaluation
- Project work sessions
- Review of resources to date
Week VII: World Wide Web as Internet resource/Internet Search Tools
- Directories and indexes, high quality evaluative directories
- Search engines, directories vs. search engines
- Meta-search engines
- Search strategies
- Practice sessions
- Evaluation work
- Project work session
Week VIII: World Wide Web: Evaluation of resources
- Closer examination of sources and site assessment
- Newsgroups and forums
- Practice sessions
- Evaluation work
- Project work session
Week IX: Additional resources
- Government documents
- Locating people internationally
- Associations & organizations (print & non-print)
- Experts, authorities, experiential sources, interested parties
- Evaluating relevance and credentials
- Practice sessions
- Evaluation work
- Project work session
Week X: Pulling it all together
- Project presentations
- Comparative findings, summing up
- Self-evaluation of personal knowledge and skills, course evaluations