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Finding and Using Faculty Development Resources

Finding and Using Faculty Development Resources. Dr. Ray Purdom University of North Carolina at Greensboro Andrea Eastman-Mullins Alexander Street Press August 10, 2006. Finding “Tools”. Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy. Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy. Faculty Development Vocabularies.

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Finding and Using Faculty Development Resources

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  1. Finding and Using Faculty Development Resources Dr. Ray Purdom University of North Carolina at Greensboro Andrea Eastman-Mullins Alexander Street Press August 10, 2006

  2. Finding “Tools”

  3. Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy

  4. Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy

  5. Faculty Development Vocabularies Real-life projects: • Educause (http://www.educause.edu) • MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org) • Pod Network/National Teaching and Learning Forum site(http://www.ntlf.com/pod/resourcesonteaching.htm) • UNC Professional Development Portal (http://pdp.unctlt.org) • Teaching and Learning • Libraries http://conference.unctlt.org/proposals/topics.htm • UNC Compendium of TLT Training (http://www.unctlt.org/training) • Alexander Street Press’ Women and Social Movements (http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com)

  6. Librarians’ controlled taxonomy.

  7. Users select from these terms.

  8. Usage statistics show what terms users really search for.

  9. TLT Training Compendium: Controlled, but flexible taxonomy

  10. Includes topics and subtopics.

  11. Administrator can edit terms anytime.

  12. Women and Social Movements: Taxonomy + Folksonomy

  13. Over 26,000 pages of primary documents with teaching tools.

  14. Extensive taxonomy = powerful searching.

  15. Extensive taxonomy = powerful browsing.

  16. New community-driven site.

  17. Users post content.

  18. Users post teaching tools.

  19. Users add their own labels.

  20. Next Step? Controlled subject vocabulary + Folksonomy _______________________ “Collabulary”

  21. Questions? Dr. Ray Purdom rcpurdom@uncg.edu Andrea Eastman-Mullins aeastmanmullins@astreetpress.com

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