Slideshare presentation by Buffy Hamilton providing rich information and guidance on how to create 21st Century subject guides/pathfinders. Lots of great tools highlighted.
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* Inquiry/Information Fluency Instruction
* Digital Citizenship
* Pathfinders
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Cathy, thanks for bookmarking this. The SLANZ journal is great reading and the issuu format is very cool. The articles on 'Content Curation' are all interesting to me, esp Judy Connell's. I'm not sure that content curation is the new black, rather a rebranding of what librarians and TLs have traditionally done. A paper based 'pathfinder' may seem anachronistic but they still have a place as tool to conmunicate / market/ educate. Of course, I also support Judy's position on the opportunity to for Web 2.0., apps and a range of digitals tools to curate content to communicate / market/ educate our students in developing 21st century skills. I'm not sure that 'content curation' the new black but it most definitely has synergy!
interface that would allow students to build a virtual collection of their favorite books by letting them copy a record to display on their “bookshelf.
use blogs and podcasts to facilitate book discussions and booktalks.
You can further stimulate a dialogue by establishing a “Book Talk” program through voicemail.