Fellow Educatters,
I teach the beginning cataloging course online as an adjunct for San Jose
State. All my students are in California. I'm in Virginia. I asked for their
time preferences and believe it or not, Saturday morning was the preferred
slot. So at 8am (PDT) and 11am (EDT), I hold our online class weekly for one
hour.
The first twenty minutes or so is devoted to cataloging instruction. I may
use a Powerpoint presentation in Blackboard's virtual classroom. The other
portion of the time is spent in answering questions. At first, I tend not to
give out the answer, but allow other students to answer. We have chat rules
(such as no side conversations, etc.) One of the nice features of
Blackboasrd is the archive tool. If the students are unable to attend, they
can read the transcript later.
We also have a very active discussion board that I use as a cataloging
knowledge base. Students find this area very helpful when completing
assignments. I usually post individual email questions I get from students
anonomously in the discussion board area that I have divided into five
sections namely 1.) AACR2 and Descriptive Cataloging Rules, 2.) Authority
Control/ Choice of Entry/ Form of Entry, 3.) MARC and OCLC Searching
Questions, 4.) Subject Cataloging including DDC, LCC, LCSH question, and 5.)
Other
Robert Ellett
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