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

Finding and Using Faculty Development Resources

Dr. Ray PurdomUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro

Andrea Eastman-Mullins Alexander Street Press

August 10, 2006

Finding “Tools”

Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy

Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy

Faculty Development VocabulariesReal-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)

Librarians’ controlled taxonomy.

Users select from these terms.

Usage statistics show what terms users really search for.

TLT Training Compendium: Controlled, but flexible taxonomy

Includes topics and subtopics.

Administrator can edit terms anytime.

Women and Social Movements: Taxonomy + Folksonomy

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

Extensive taxonomy = powerful searching.

Extensive taxonomy = powerful browsing.

New community-driven site.

Users post content.

Users post teaching tools.

Users add their own labels.

Next Step?

Controlled subject vocabulary

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Folksonomy

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“Collabulary”

Questions?Dr. Ray Purdom

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Andrea Eastman-Mullins

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