Z+IDC+4U+Unit+6

=IDC 4U Unit 6= **New Resources: Effective Collaboration with Online Databases, E-Books, and Virtual Libraries** Key Concepts
 * Databases (EBSCO), Encyclopedias (Grolier)
 * Wikis, Blogs, Diigo
 * Research - working collaboratively with information (question, explore, discover, demonstrate & achieve)
 * Effective Search Strategies (Engines & Directories) Resource matches Purpose
 * RSS Feed, Tagging, Aggregators

Additional Ideas - explore delicious and look at the concept of collecting bookmarks with your own tags and sharing them when doing a research project - consider how you might use Pageflakes to share the web 2.0 tools you use in daily life

Teaching Strategies - use the **school library website to teach basic and advanced database search strategies** using Databases (EBSCO & Gale Cengage), Encyclopedias (Grolier) - **use a wiki to "debate" a relevant topic** to the course after carefully researching using our prior knowledge about reliable resources gained in unit 5 - **design and develop a blog** for a course, unit, department within the school to both share information and accumulate input from community stakeholders (i.e. students, teachers, administrators, coaches, directors etc) - **research and explore tagging** as a means of constructing your own information classification system and compare to a conventional format such as library catalogue subject headings - alternate idea: create a cloud tag which describes your personality, values, interests - Use