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Lesson: Exploring Literature

To do this lesson, you need:

the mp3 file: go to ELC-6900/Audio/Exploring Literature - an .mp3 file. It lasts about 21 minutes. Recorded in 2007, edited with updates 9-16-08. Should be fine for 2009.
Farmer
this outline for visual tracking
I've found that I need to open two browser windows or two tabs - one for WebCT and one for this page.

Outline
1. Honor texts

Farmer pp 6-8
Farmer pp 37-38
Leedy & Ormrod checklist
Searching readings: follow up according to your skill level for Searching:

If you need an overview of searching: Henry, L. (2006). SEARCHing for an answer: The critical role of new literacies while reading on the Internet. Reading Teacher, 59 (7), 614-627. [persistent link - this goes to Wilson but I also found it in EBSCO](MAF's comment: good overview of searching, generally; written for teachers to help their students)
If you want to focus on Google: Gunn, H. (2005). Become a Google power user. Teacher Librarian, 32 (5), 14-. [persistent link](possibly a little dated; should mostly work; concrete strategies; use Google from UGA Libraries homepage to get at library holdings.)
If you want to focus on EBSCO, see activities below:

EBSCO provides a useful bundle of educational databases with a uniform and unified search interface. If I had to take one database to a desert island, this is the one I would take.
How to get into EBSCO, one method:

Start at UGA Libraries.
Under Search Shortcuts (top left), choose Articles tab.
In Databases by Subject, choose Education K-16.
Then, on the right, choose ERIC at EBSCO. (You see other choices there to explore later.) [How to find GALILEO password]
This gets you into EBSCOHost. Look for "Choose Databases, upper right. For my purposes, I alway select Education Databases. This gets you the full menu of education databases within EBSCO, not just ERIC. (You may try other fields very easily here, as appropriate.)
Now: go to Help on the top upper right. Get to know EBSCO. One good way is to look at some of the tutorials, which are videos of 3-4 minutes. I recommend:

Basic Searching for Academic Libraries
Advanced Search - Guided
other EBSCO Help topics: look around

this section updated 9-16-08 to match EBSCO interface changes of 2008

2. Context of exploring literature within this class

Farmer p. 3
Right now, we are gathering question ideas - a good time to put some tools in your box

3. My suggestions

Databases to know: ERIC, Education Abstracts, Professional Development Collection
Keep an eye out for Library Literature or LISTA
Be a power Google user. Don't be a Google snob. Use the UGA Libraries homepage Google Bar because it ties in.
Vocabulary, keywords, thesauri, browsing
Hitting upon that one perfect article and using the keywords that go with it
GALILEO changes all the time

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Document History: created 9-7-08. Updated 9-22-09 for 2009.

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