1. POSTER SESSION KEEPING CURRENT IN THE CLASSROOM Prepared by Laura L. Moody San Francisco State University

2. TIPS FOR THE CLASSROOM 1.MAKE SURE TO VARY VOCAL TONE AND MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH STUDENTS IN CLASS. 2.MAKE INSTRUCTION RELEVANT TO CLASS ASSIGNMENTS 3.DON’T BE AFRAID TO USE NEW TOOLS SUCH AS YOUTUBE, FLICKR, AND WIKIPEDIA 4. KEEP UP WITH THE MILLENNIALS BY USING SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

3. MOTIVATORS ENTHUSIASM Speak with tonal variety and quality-no one likes to listen to a drone. Move around and show facial expressions-but not too much! Make direct eye contact with students in class-helps to read faces. CLARITY Check in with the class every once in a while to make sure they are still with you. ORGANIZATION Start session with a few traditional library resources, then wow’em with the non-traditional. INTERACTION Leave some time at end of class to work directly with students. This helps to instill confidence and allows the librarian to remain approachable if students need further assistance.

4. Border Cultures: Conjunto Music From the University of Texas utexas.edu/benson/border/index.html Smithsonian Global Sound Offers complete audio. JSTOR Flickr - flickr.comflickr.comRILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureHAPI Online Wikipedia wikipedia.org Music Index In Print and OnlineChicano Database You Tube youtube.com Grove Music In Print and Online Ethnic News Watch Free Internet DatabasesMusic Specific Databases from Library Database List General Databases from Library Database List Integrated Library Instruction Session Raza 425 Comparative Music Folklore This course covers classic and contemporary Tejano; past and present nortemo and banda; roots to postmodern rock, R&B and pop; as well as Latin jazz and salsa. Detailed presentations and discussions of the musica of Caribbean, Mexican, as well Central and South Americans, both natives and immigrants, living in the United States are integrated throughout. Sample Class Focus on keeping examples relevant to assignment.

5. YOUTUBE.COM Students today are used to using technologies such as You Tube to find information.

6. Non-traditional Resources YOUTUBE.COM-they can see a performance.

7. Non-traditional Resources Flickr.com also offers visual aids, and can Help the student understand what tags mean.

8. FLICKR.COM Flickr is a very useful visual resource that can help motivate the student to find further information.

9. WIKIPEDIA Wikipedia is user friendly and will lead students to other resources. I’m constantly amazed at what I find in Wikipedia. Offers the opportunity to talk to class about evaluation of web resources, too.

10. SYNTHESIZE Students can watch videos of musicians performing these types of music. Search YouTube for Tex- Mex music Wikipedia is reliable and is a good place to start. Flickr.com offers photographs

11. SOCIAL NETWORK SITES I’ve recently set up a space on Windows Live Spaces, which allows users to set up pages that can be openly visited by members of the general public, or you can set up the system to just allow those you invite. You can set up something for a class and the students can do there when they are available. You can post videos, booklists, and set up an IM service through MEEBO. Most everyone is aware of MySpace and Facebook…. http://spaces.live.com/

12. Articles and Books of Interest Gibson, Craig, ed. Student Engagement and Information Literacy. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006. Jacobson, Trudi E., and Lijuan Xu. Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004. Oblinger, Diana. "Boomers Gen-Xers & Millennials Understanding the New Students" Educause Review July-August 2003: 37-47 McHugh, Josh. "Synching Up With the Kid" Edutopia October 2005: 33-35. “How the New Generation of Well-Wired Multitaskers is Changing Campus Culture” The Chronicle of Higher Education: Information Technology Column. January 2, 2007. Hidi, Suzanne and Judith M. Harackiewicz. “Motivating the Academically Unmotivated: A Critical Issue for the 21 st Century”. Review of Educational Research 13:2 (Summer 2000): 151-179. Brown, Susan. “The 21 st Century Classroom”. Techniques: Connecting Education & Careers. 75:2 (October 2000): 22-26.

13. Articles and Books of Interest (Cont.) Carlson, Scott. “The Net Generation in the Classroom”. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 52:7 (2005): 34-37. Manses, Jack M. “Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries”. Webology (June 2006): 3:2, Article 25. Available at: http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n3/a25.html http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n3/a25.html Stephens, Michael. “Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software”. Library Technology Reports. (July-August 2006): 42:4: 1-67.