Contact - Issue 4 Contact is the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's monthly e-newsletter bringing you the latest information on teaching and learning with technology. Contact will not be published during June and July. Watch for our next issue in August, 2004. Feel free to pass along this newsletter to anyone you feel would benefit from this information. Have them e-mail us at contact@uoit.ca if they want to be added to the mailing list. Visit the Contact Web site at http://www.uoit.ca/learningtechnologies/contact to see past issues. May 2004 - Managing Internet Resources Evaluating
Internet Research Sources This article discusses methods of evaluating Web resources. It explains the CARS Checklist for Information Quality and touches on metainformation. A good overall explanation of resource evaluation. http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm New
Allies in the Fight Against Research by Googling "Students have this idea that there is no difference between searching on the Web and searching in the library." This article looks at how a professor guides his students to use scholarly materials in his course. Try out the interactive graphic. http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=dxlib4jv453s8yrmivm0yovz53x9fxes Embedding
online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some
implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering
teaching in the online environment A short study of the use of online information resources by university lecturers using Virtual Learning Environments as a teaching tool for the first time provided insights into the strategies they use to select those resources, and into some of the difficulties they encountered when using online materials in their teaching. http://www.informationr.net/ir/8-4/paper158.html
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