Session 5: Lesson plan

At the beginning of the session, we were asked to discuss our chosen topic for 15 minutes, then we gather ideas and put it on the big sheet to be discussed in class.

Here is the lesson plan:

Class: EBSCOHost database practice session.

Students: 22

Lecturer: Samson Mudapalcati

Librarian: Fred Ling, Dennis Chan

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Assessment: Mechanical Engineering Project

Learning outcomes:

1. Students have knowledge on how to find electronic articles from library database for their final year project.

2. Once they finish classes. They have knowledge of why they use library database instead of Google.

3. The students can tell the other students to use more frequent use of library databases.

Time and activities planned for the session (80:20 principle apply).

5 minutes: Introduction (explaining what is library database, why we are using library database instead of Google).

20 minutes: Demonstration followed by practical activities on how to find articles from EBSCOHost database using the keyword search, how to email article to students’ email address, and how to export the article citation to Bibliographic database (for example, EndNote).

20 minutes: Ask students to carry out their own search.

10 minutes: Feedback à repetition; reviewing information.

5 minutes: Conclusion.

After our presentation, we have received the following feedbacks from the class in regards to our teaching plan:

1. Like the idea of comparing Google with academic databases.

2. The timing worked out for the session looks good.

3. The instructor have a sense of humour when teaching the course, which brings the session much more interesting.

4. Being able to use the computers.

5. The instructor demonstrate how use library database and Google to search information.

6. Allow students to carry out their own searches relevant to their course.