Brains, brains, got to have brains......urg urg urg

Once upon a time there were three zombies: a baby zombie, a mummy zombie, and a daddy zombie. While they were away in the woods looking for juicy brains, this awful girl called Goldy Locks came around and broke into their house. She ate their food, broke their furniture, and slept in their beds. When they got back, they found her asleep, so they set about eating her brains.....sorry, this is what happens when you spend late nights working on blogs!

I have survived the journey into the abyss - yes, I knocked out a new version of assignment 1 part A and I'm still (partly) sane. The further and further I go into the Nexus subject, the more and more I feel like my brain is going to explode...which is why I was thinking about zombies!

No, it's been a steep learning curve, lots to learn.  Things that have stood out so far, have been Limberg's three different approaches to learning: fact-finding, looking for right or wrong answers, and synthesising facts - which ties in very closely to SLIM and three different codes to show student learning. The importance of interventions - that they are an important part of the "guided" part of Guided Inquiry Learning. Also, the six important components to Guided Inquiry Learning according to Kuhltau. On top of that, there's also the important components of the Information Search Process and  Information Literacy, that are essential to equipping students with the skills they need to take part successfully in Guided-Inquiry learning when the tool of choice for research is the Internet.

While writing the new assignment, I used something I'd completely forgotten about - "Google Books". What a great search tool, as it's useful for searching for texts that you'd spend hours looking for in a library - and even then, there's no guarantee that the content would be what you're looking for. Sure, the books found in Google Books aren't complete, as they're just a preview (bits are deliberately left blank), but you do often get a large amount of the content. I used it to retrieve a book that one of the class readings came out of it, and had a look through the rest of the text for my assignment topic. Best application though, would be as a "try before you buy", or a "try before you borrow from the library" tool :)

If you want to check out Google books, find it at: http://books.google.com.au/

Here's a link to the book PREVIEW from Google Books of "Zombie Zen", I couldn't help continuing with the zombie theme: READ A PREVIEW OF ZOMBIE ZEN