Embedding Tutorials into Instruction Classes

Database Tutorials

Academic Search Premier The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Try their Basic Search Tutorial or their Advanced Search Tutorial.
Business & Company Resources is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Try the Baruch College Tutorial.
ERIC from EBSCO provides full text options and is now freely avaible from the U.S. Department of Education. "The Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals."
Try the Hunter College ERIC Tutorial
JSTOR has full text articles from the first issue of several hundred journals in the Arts & Sciences, General Science, Language & Literature collections. "JSTOR has a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible."
Try their Search Tutorial or their Browse Tutorial.

Other Tutorials

Locating Time Magazine at Penn State

What NOT to do.

Williams College Welcome

Machine is Us Video

Web 2.0 will force us to rethink everything through publishing more of the written word?
YouTube "Did You Know III" Video

Statistics for education levels and job outlook in various countries compared, chiefly U.S., China, and India.

Locating Other Tutorials
Search YouTube for "Library"

ANTS - Animated Tutorial Sharing Project
http://instructionwiki.org/ANTS_-_Animated_Tutorial_Sharing_Project
"Project's Goal: To create a critical mass of point-of-need library tutorials by making inter-institutional creation and sharing of tutorials easy and efficient. . . ANTS strives to provide Librarians with a one-stop shopping site for open source tutorials."
PRIMO Database from the ACRL Instruction Section
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/primo/index.htm
"PRIMO, formerly known as the Internet Education Project (IEP), is a means to promote and share peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments."

METRO BI-SIG April 4, 2007
Linda Roccos, College of Staten Island Library
Roccos@mail.csi.cuny.edu