POSTER SESSION

KEEPING CURRENT IN THE

CLASSROOM Prepared by

Laura L. Moody

San Francisco State University

TIPS FOR THE CLASSROOM

1. MAKE SURE TO VARY VOCAL TONE AND MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH STUDENTS IN CLASS.

2. MAKE INSTRUCTION RELEVANT TO CLASS ASSIGNMENTS

3. DON’T BE AFRAID TO USE NEW TOOLS SUCH AS YOUTUBE, FLICKR, AND WIKIPEDIA

4. KEEP UP WITH THE MILLENNIALS BY USING SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

MOTIVATORS

• ENTHUSIASM Speak with tonal variety and quality-no one likes to listen to a drone. Move around and show facial expressions-but not too much! Make direct eye contact with students in class-helps to read faces.

• CLARITY Check in with the class every once in a while to make sure they are still with

you.

• ORGANIZATION Start session with a few traditional library resources, then wow’em with the

non-traditional.

• INTERACTION Leave some time at end of class to work directly with students. This helps to

instill confidence and allows the librarian to remain approachable if students need further

assistance.

Border Cultures: Conjunto Music From the University of Texas

utexas.edu/benson/border/index.html

Smithsonian Global Sound

Offers complete audio.

JSTOR

Flickr - flickr.comRILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureHAPI Online

Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

Music Index In Print and OnlineChicano Database

You Tube

youtube.comGrove Music In Print and Online Ethnic News Watch

Free Internet DatabasesMusic Specific Databases from Library Database List

General Databases from Library Database List

Integrated Library Instruction Session

Raza 425 Comparative Music Folklore

This course covers classic and contemporary Tejano; past and present nortemo and banda; roots to postmodern rock, R&B and pop; as well as Latin jazz and salsa. Detailed presentations and discussions of

the musica of Caribbean, Mexican, as well Central and South Americans, both natives and immigrants, living in the United States are integrated throughout.

Sample Class

Focus on keeping examples relevant to assignment.

YOUTUBE.COM Students today are used to using technologies

such as You Tube to find information.

Non-traditional ResourcesYOUTUBE.COM-they can see a performance.

Non-traditional ResourcesFlickr.com also offers visual aids, and can

Help the student understand what tags mean.

FLICKR.COM

Flickr is a very useful visual resource that can help motivate the student to find further information.

WIKIPEDIA

Wikipedia is user friendly and will lead students to other resources.

I’m constantly amazed at what I find in Wikipedia. Offers the opportunity to talk to class about evaluation of web resources, too.

SYNTHESIZE

Students can watch videos of musicians performing these types of music.

Search YouTubefor Tex- Mex music

Wikipedia is reliable and is a good place to start. Flickr.com offers photographs

SOCIAL NETWORK SITES

I’ve recently set up a space on Windows Live Spaces, which allows users to set up pages that can be openly visited by members of the general public, or you can set up the system to just allow those you invite. You can set up something for a class and the students can do there when they are available. You can post videos, booklists, and set up an IM service through MEEBO.

Most everyone is aware of MySpace and Facebook….

http://spaces.live.com/

Articles and Books of Interest• Gibson, Craig, ed. Student Engagement and Information Literacy. Chicago:

Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006.• Jacobson, Trudi E., and Lijuan Xu. Motivating Students in Information Literacy

Classes. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004.• Oblinger, Diana. "Boomers Gen-Xers & Millennials Understanding the New Students"

Educause Review July-August 2003: 37-47• McHugh, Josh. "Synching Up With the Kid" Edutopia October 2005: 33-35.• “How the New Generation of Well-Wired Multitaskers is Changing Campus Culture”

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Information Technology Column. January 2, 2007.

• Hidi, Suzanne and Judith M. Harackiewicz. “Motivating the Academically Unmotivated: A Critical Issue for the 21st Century”. Review of Educational Research

13:2 (Summer 2000): 151-179.• Brown, Susan. “The 21st Century Classroom”. Techniques: Connecting Education &

Careers. 75:2 (October 2000): 22-26.

Articles and Books of Interest (Cont.)

• Carlson, Scott. “The Net Generation in the Classroom”. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 52:7 (2005): 34-37.

• Manses, Jack M. “Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries”. Webology (June 2006): 3:2, Article 25. Available at: http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n3/a25.html

• Stephens, Michael. “Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software”. Library Technology Reports. (July-August 2006): 42:4: 1-67.