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Sarah:

My experience is that most people want and need practice in searching.
Something you might want to try is to assign one or more search exercises
using various search engines.  If you have a large group, have participants
count off by a certain number (say five), and then have each group work
together with an assigned index (Yahoo, Infoseek, Lycos, etc.).  If you
really want to make it challenging, give everyone a time limit and make a
contest out of it.  After the search, have the winner explain what they did.

As for search topics, you might want to solicit ideas from the class...
making the exercise all that more relevant.


Brian Pomeroy
lunar@voicenet.com
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6346/bio.htm
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - http://www.chop.edu/


----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah E Mcdaniel <smcdniel@CSD.UWM.EDU>
To: <NETTRAIN@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: Hands-on activities for training


> I will be teaching a half-day workshop next week called "Teaching the
> Internet" to a group of librarians.  I teach workshops on Internet Topics
> at the academic library where I work.  I am trying to come up with
> activities which would be particularly meaningful to people who will  be
> training others on topics such as the way the web works, evaluating web
> sites, and selecting and using search tools.  Any sucessful collaborative
> or individual activities would be very useful.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
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> Sarah McDaniel
> Home:  smcdniel@csd.uwm.edu
> UWM:   smd@gml.lib.uwm.edu
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