I've been lucky to have an opportunity to familarise myself with parts of SCIS in my current block at Waverley College such as locating details of resources, and available resources that the library may want to acquire.
While this has given me confidence to use SCIS in my role of teacher libarian, I have not been impressed with how we will use SCIS for the upcoming Assessment 2A of ETL505.
I think being given the two weeks to prepare is highly inadequate. For an assignment that is 35 %, the topic areas should have been given at the start of this week. For every 10 % , you need to spend a week, not 17.5 % in just two weeks. I wonder how some are going to cope.
I am sitting here wanting to begin the assignment, because I dont want to waste a moment. I cannot deal with the stress of completing an assessment task the night before at all. I like to start it early. I have found that by the time the assignment is due, it is just a matter of toning it up and making sure that it is good, and 9/10 times, this has worked in my favour. I do get a decent mark.
The only thing I can really do, is practice the exercises on subject headings. I did them all this week but I did have inacuracies. It felt like the answers insisted on a particular answer and felt like there was no leeway or flexibility. If I am making inaccuracies, that says alot about my impending performance - FAIL. I did get a fair number right, but I need to work through those weaknesses.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Six Weeks in
Were six weeks into ETL505, and I think I'm surprised with how I have progressed over the past week.
I worked on it for three weeks at least and two weeks of it involved careful reading of texts and readings to get any gist. At least as the paper came together, the ideas made sense, and walla an essay.
As for the first assignment, I don't have the confidence that I will pass even though I have put in a fair good shot with it. Usually first assignments during semester two have tended to be poor, and much worse than semester one. I've tried to avoid "excluding" information and "staccato" like writing. I also think the HAL Text reader is a useful tool in proofreading my assignments because someone reads it aloud and i can look at it as if I am the marker.
But assignment one was quite interesting nonetheless looking at Resource Access Description. As a librarian and as a person I love writing detailed descriptions because I know people like to have information at their finger tips, especially in a connected world. I was shocked at the rigourous standards of AACR2. It turned out to me to be more outdated than I thought. In my view it ignores some of the fundamentals in reading and viewing information.
I'm glad that they are bringing it in. Even if I don't understand it yet, I can see the advantages of it without having to do too much
I worked on it for three weeks at least and two weeks of it involved careful reading of texts and readings to get any gist. At least as the paper came together, the ideas made sense, and walla an essay.
As for the first assignment, I don't have the confidence that I will pass even though I have put in a fair good shot with it. Usually first assignments during semester two have tended to be poor, and much worse than semester one. I've tried to avoid "excluding" information and "staccato" like writing. I also think the HAL Text reader is a useful tool in proofreading my assignments because someone reads it aloud and i can look at it as if I am the marker.
But assignment one was quite interesting nonetheless looking at Resource Access Description. As a librarian and as a person I love writing detailed descriptions because I know people like to have information at their finger tips, especially in a connected world. I was shocked at the rigourous standards of AACR2. It turned out to me to be more outdated than I thought. In my view it ignores some of the fundamentals in reading and viewing information.
I'm glad that they are bringing it in. Even if I don't understand it yet, I can see the advantages of it without having to do too much
