Google things

Here is an article which does some quick evaluations and provides some thoughtful discussion, plus a couple of events.

White, B. (2006) "Examining the Claims of Google Scholar as a Serious Information Source." New Zealand library and information management journal, 50 (1) 11-24 http://www.lianza.org.nz/publications/journal/
files/TNZLIMJOctober2006v50i01.pdf (this is the web address for the whole issue)

Event on 6 June Beyond Google: Strategies for Finding Images Online in Bristol, UK, organised by TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images). http://www.tasi.ac.uk/training/training.html

Three day events in June, Summer Institute June 2007 - Google IT, led by Google Certified Teachers, organsied by the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP), USA, (see http://www.ctap4.org/infolit/ -they also have some resources including IL leaflets to download, aimed at children).

I hadn't come across the concept of a Google certified teacher before, so I did some googling. Here is the webpage of the Google Teacher Academy. This initiative is aimed at schoolteachers, and "only K-12 educators within a 90-minute local commute of an Academy event may apply" (so that cuts out anyone from, say, Peckham, participating in the Californian one). http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html

Phot0 by Sheila webber: wild rose, Sheffield, May 2007.