Teaching Web Search Skills
Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Library & Information Services
| Author: | Greg R. Notess | ISBN: | 9781573879491 |
| Publisher: | Information Today, Inc. | Publication: | October 29, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Greg R. Notess |
| ISBN: | 9781573879491 |
| Publisher: | Information Today, Inc. |
| Publication: | October 29, 2006 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Here is a unique and practical reference for anyone who teaches Web searching. Greg Notess shares his own techniques and strategies along with expert tips and advice from a virtual “whos who” of Web search training: Joe Barker, Paul Barron, Phil Bradley, John Ferguson, Alice Fulbright, Ran Hock, Jeff Humphrey, Diane Kovacs, Gary Price, Danny Sullivan, Rita Vine, and Sheila Webber. Teaching Web Search Skills covers all these topics and more: understanding your audience; instructional session goals; online tutorials; web search terminology; organizing the training session; creating workshop Web pages; presentation tips, tricks, and shortcuts; and anecdotes, examples, and exercises. This comprehensive and readable guide presents a variety of approaches to instructional design and methodology, lists a range of essential training resources, and features dozens of helpful figures, search screens, worksheets, handouts, and sample training materials. If you train Internet users to search the Web, this is the book youve been waiting for!
Here is a unique and practical reference for anyone who teaches Web searching. Greg Notess shares his own techniques and strategies along with expert tips and advice from a virtual “whos who” of Web search training: Joe Barker, Paul Barron, Phil Bradley, John Ferguson, Alice Fulbright, Ran Hock, Jeff Humphrey, Diane Kovacs, Gary Price, Danny Sullivan, Rita Vine, and Sheila Webber. Teaching Web Search Skills covers all these topics and more: understanding your audience; instructional session goals; online tutorials; web search terminology; organizing the training session; creating workshop Web pages; presentation tips, tricks, and shortcuts; and anecdotes, examples, and exercises. This comprehensive and readable guide presents a variety of approaches to instructional design and methodology, lists a range of essential training resources, and features dozens of helpful figures, search screens, worksheets, handouts, and sample training materials. If you train Internet users to search the Web, this is the book youve been waiting for!
