Topsy N. Smalley
topsy.org.

I am a librarian at Cabrillo College on the California Central Coast. Email me at tosmalle[at]cabrillo.edu. Additional resources are at Topsy's Website at Cabrillo. Many of my course-related Web-based exercises are available through the Cabrillo College Library Web site -- once on the Cabrillo College Library Web page, click on Internet Links, then on a discipline area (e.g., Sociology), then scroll down to the Course-Related Materials section.

Information Competency
Resources Associated with Cabrillo
Other
Information Competency -- Web resources with special emphasis on developments in the California community colleges

The Bay Area Community Colleges Information Competency Assessment Project has developed a criterion-referenced proficiency test for information competency based on ACRL Standards. Part A, a cognitive exam, tests what students know. Part B, a performance exam, tests what students can do.

Measuring SLOs for Course-Related Instruction

College Transfer / Knowledge Transfer Conference at SJSU 3/26/04 Information Competency in the California Community Colleges (last rev. 2/05) and
Information Competency at Cabrillo College

Researching For Real - Presentation at CA CRLA Conference, 5/1/04

 

 

 

LIBR 18 Advanced Internet Searching will be offered Spring Semester 2010. 1 unit course starts April 4 and runs for 6 weeks. See the Spring 2010 Schedule of Classes.

Deep Web Databases

Digital Libraries

New Stuff on the Web/Internet

Tutorials

Learning Keyboarding & Typing

Using Online Databases

Google Docs and Spreadsheets -- with a Google account this is simple and fast access to word processing capabilities on the Web. It's free, but you do need to register.

Zoho.com -- offers online versions of a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation maker (like PowerPoint), etc. Have to register, but it's free.

Type something on the Web & print it out! Very limited formatting capabilities.

Brief Web exercises

Digital Texts || Videos ||
Tweak Your Database Skills (Word doc)
|| Online: Free & Eas

Faculty Recruitment resources

Library 10 -- online version of Information Research (co-requisite to Cabrillo College's online English 1A course). Represents the course as it was taught Fall 2003. Students currently in the course take it through WebCT; the WebCT version is constantly revised.

Student Learning Outcomes

VESL Resources

Information Literacy in the Information Age: Topsy's Sabbatical Project Report

Work Based Learning Resource Center at Cabrillo College -- Cooperative Work Experience Education

Cabrillo Chorus cabrillochorus.org

LIBR 16 Spring 2003

 

 

 

Iraq Textbooks Project (in Word)

Higher Education in Iraq: Textbooks & Libraries

last updated 5/09