Internet information skills: Exercise to explore the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Virtual Training Suite

RDN

• www.vts.rdn.ac.uk

• “Teach yourself” tutorials offering training in internet information skills for a specific academic subject

RDN – Learning objectives and tutorial structure

• To enable the user to practise and develop internet information skills that can support learning, teaching and research

RDN – tutorial structure

• Tour– Key Internet sites

• Discover– How to search the Internet

• Review– What to trust on the Internet

• Reflect– How to get the most from the Internet for your

work

Exercise

• Take 45 minutes to explore the RDN

• We will discuss:– What you found useful– What was new to you– Could you use any of the tutorials in your

IL programme? And how?