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Facilitating Engagement

in an online environment

Teri S. Lesesne (rhymes with insane)Sam Houston State UniversityDepartment of Library Science

@professornana

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Challenges

getting to know one another

building community

eliciting response

checking on reading and comprehension

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Possible Solutions

social networks (immersion)

Apps (employment and approximation)

web sites (immersion and expectations)

Assignments (demonstration and response)

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Social Networks

follow: teacher, librarian, professor, organization, author

create page for library; update it

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APPS

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Web Sites

www.ala.org/yalsawww.ala.org/alsc

www.cbcbooks.orgwww.titlewave.comwww.amazon.com

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Assignments

reading autobiography bookstore visit

booktalksdisplays

annotationsannotated bibliography

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Presentation here:

www.slideshare.net/ProfessorNana

http://my.yapp.us/L5SF99