As we approach integrated instruction this semester, you might consider freshening up your sessions, especially with freshmen and sophomores,
and relate searching databases to Facebook. Anne Pemberton does a great job of outlining this approach in her C&RL News article"From friending to research: Using Facebook as a teaching tool. http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/1/28.full
Give it a read, a try and post your instruction strategies, successes and "lessons learned" here!
Give it a read, a try and post your instruction strategies, successes and "lessons learned" here!
I like the start about me getting older but not the students! I am going to try to Facebook as database analogy with First Year writing.