new child and family website (fwd)

[Laura Larsson]

Friends:

A new site for child and family issues for you to take a look at. I'm
forwarding a message from a colleague on the medical librarians list.

Regards,

Laura Larsson
NLM Informatics Fellow, OHSU
and
Clinical Faculty
Health Services, University of Washington
larsson at u.washington.edu
listowner: PHNUTR-L, PHNURSES, PNWHEALTH, PHSW, HSR-L +
http://courses.washington.edu/hs590a/hs590a.html

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. "  Alvin Toffler

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:26:13 -0400
From: Laurie Sabol <laurie.sabol at TUFTS.EDU>
To: MEDLIB-L at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: new child and family website

I invite you to look at a new website, Child and Family News WebGuide
(http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/), designed and built by a project team
composed of librarians and child development faculty at Tufts
University.

The website, designed for students and parents, rates and reviews
research-based websites in child development, thereby reducing the
frustration that so many people encounter when they search the web. Like
many websites, it is a work in progress, and as time goes on, more sites
and subtopics will be added.

I participated in various aspects of the project development. One of my
primary roles was to teach web searching and evaluation to a class of
child development undergrads, who searched for and evaluated (based on a
checklist that we developed) on hundreds of sites. To implement this, I
collaborated closely with child development teaching faculty. Final
evaluations were conducted by specially trained child development grad
students.

I also planned and delivered an extremely rewarding -if tiring!- 1/2 day
workshop for faculty, teaching web searching, evaluation and (to a
lesser extent) integration of web-based assignments into their
curriculum.

I'm happy to answer any questions about my role, or the general
development of the site. Feel free to email me.

Laurie Sabol
Instruction Coordinator
Tisch Library at Tufts University
Medford MA 02155