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

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

6. Librarians’ controlled taxonomy.

8. Users select from these terms.

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

10. TLT Training Compendium: Controlled, but flexible taxonomy

11. Includes topics and subtopics.

12. Administrator can edit terms anytime.

14. Women and Social Movements: Taxonomy + Folksonomy

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

16. Extensive taxonomy = powerful searching.

17. Extensive taxonomy = powerful browsing.

18. New community-driven site.

19. Users post content.

20. Users post teaching tools.

21. Users add their own labels.

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

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