Internet for Social Policy updated
A quick reminder to librarians and lecturers preparing their information
literacy programmes, Web pages and subject guides:
The Internet for Social Policy is a guide to using the Internet for
research, with UK social work students as its target audience. It is freely
available as part of the Resource Discovery Network's Virtual Training
Suite.
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/social-policy
The tutorial is designed to be used as part of an information literacy
programme, either as a resource to base a workshop around or as a free-
standing tutorial.
Popular sections are:
- a guide to key free & subscription Web sites
- a guide to Internet search techniques & tools
- hints on evaluating results from a Google search
- interactive quizzes giving formative feedback
The tutorial is being regularly revised, updated and maintained by the RDN
and the editor, Angela Upton of the Social Care Institute for Excellence,
to ensure that the key sites and advice included keeps up with Internet
developments.
Internet research skills are increasingly recognised as an important
component of the wider information literacy curriculum. Students arriving
at university or college are often familiar with using the Internet,
perhaps for school homework, shopping or leisure, but they won't be
familiar with using the Internet to support higher education. This
tutorial offers an introduction to using the Internet for research at this
level.
Concerns have also been highlighted amongst academics and information
professionals about students finding and referencing poor quality,
inappropriate online sources. Also, with so much information available on
the Internet, students need more help and guidance than ever before in
finding 'the best of the web'.
We hope you will find the tutorial useful.
There are some free teaching and training resources available, which you
are welcome to adapt for use locally:
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/teachers/
Free posters for each of our tutorials can be downloaded from:
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/posters/
Or you can email us to order some printed fliers.
Please tell us of any additions/changes etc you feel would make these
tutorials more useful to you, as a teacher, or to your students - RDN
resource are developed "by the community, for the community" and we'd
welcome your suggestions. You can email us at:
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The RDN Virtual Training Suite offers over 60 similar tutorials in
different subject areas:
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk
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