Week+06


 * Week 6 (2/28) **
 * Part I: Collective Intelligence, Collaboration and Transfer **
 * Part II: Beyond Google: re-Thinking Search **

**Detailed Library Profile:** must be handed in by 6:30 pm via Google Docs
 * DUE: **

__** Part I: **** Collective Intelligence, Collaboration and Transfer **__

How are new technologies impacting what we consider to be information? How do they change our research practice? How can we encourage patrons to use critical skills as they engage with these tools?
 * QUESTIONS: **

Jenkins, H. (2008). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press. (Introduction, Chapters 2 & 5)
 * READ: **

Schiff, S. (2006). Know it all: Wikipedia takes on the experts. The New Yorker. 36.

Poe, M. (2006). The hive: Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build anonline encyclopedia touched off history's biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge. The Atlantic Monthly. 86.


 * WATCH: **

Mimi Ito on youth using digital technology media type="youtube" key="bNj8yFPVZtM?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

PBS Frontline, //Merchants of Cool// Under-the-Radar Marketing and The MTV Machine

PBS Frontline //Digital Nation//, danah boyd interview

PBS Frontline, Digital Nation "Distracted by Everything" (4:30-8:30)


 * __Part II: Beyond Google__ **
 * This portion of the class will be used for exploring search tools with with your project groups. As you explore these tools, think about what sort of search tools might best serve the needs of your patrons? Do they need to learn about new tools? Do they need to learn better ways to use the tools they are already using? Perhaps a bit of both? **

Braun, L. (2009, April 6). C'est la vie. // YALSA blog //
 * READ: **


 * EXPLORE: **
 * //There are many other tools that are "Beyond Google;" this list is by no means exhaustive. Your group may choose to find one of them for your lesson plan, should it meet the needs of your library patrons.//**

http://toolsforsearch.wikispaces.com/
 * General Search tools: **

@http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google
 * Beyond Google **

http://streamingvideo.wikispaces.com/
 * Film and Video **

@http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
 * Images: **

@http://www.googlewonderwheel.com/
 * Smarter Google search: **
 * explore the Wonder Wheel and Timeline (left hand toolbar, under Search Tools) **


 * Personalization: **

@http://www.pageflakes.com/
 * PageFlakes **

@http://www.netvibes.com/en
 * NetVibes **

@http://www.google.com/ig
 * IGoogle **

@http://www.theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/
 * Libguides (a sample page by the Unquiet Librarian Blogger, Buffy Hamilton) **

@http://www.nytimes.com/mem/timeswidgets/
 * New York Times Widget Builder **