LIS 2004 Course Revision Committee
2009 – 2010 Annual Report

2009-2010  Committee Members  
•	Susan Bradshaw, Central Florida Community College
•	Jeremy Bullian, Hillsborough Community College
•	Wendy Dover, Gulf Coast Community College
•	Frank Dowd, Edison State College (Committee Chair) 
•	Laurie Hime, Miami Dade College
•	Margaret Hawkins, Manatee Community College
•	Dan Hood, Indian River State College
•	Gail Lancaster, St. Petersburg College
•	Chad Mairn, St. Petersburg College
•	Diana Matthews, Santa Fe College
•	Jill Simser, Brevard Community College
Lesson Assignments
•	Help with the Google Docs Site and the Committee’s web page:  Chad Mairn and Jill Simser
•	Lesson 1,  Internet Communication – Susan Bradshaw and Chad Mairn
•	Lesson 2,  Research Strategies – Laurie Hime
•	Lesson 3,  Web Search Engines – Wendy Dover
•	Lesson 4,  Other Web Tools – Jeremy Bullian and Frank Dowd.  Dan Hood also volunteered to assist regarding the Google Scholar pages.
•	Lesson 5,  Library Databases – Meg Hawkins.  Dan Hood also volunteered to assist regarding the Google Scholar pages.
•	Lesson 6,  Evaluating Internet Resources – Jill Simser and Diana Matthews
•	Lesson 7,  Documenting Internet Resources – Gail Lancaster
Committee Accomplishments
This academic year the LIS 2004 committee has made several changes.  Some examples:
•	Updated Lesson 3, Search Engines, to include new ones such as Wolfram Alpha.  

•	Changed the order of the modules and moved the content of Lesson 5 (library databases) ahead of Lessons 3 and 4.  The idea is to give students exposure to more structured content right away.

•	Updated Lesson 6, which has to do with criteria for evaluating websites.  

•	Completely updated Lesson 7, the unit on MLA and APA documentation, to reflect current practice, and to place more emphasis on the reasons for documentation. 

The previous LIS 2004 Course Revision Committee worked on adding more “meaningful” activities and assignments to enhance the course’s content and started the use of Google Sites, St. Petersburg Online Communicator (SPOC), Google Docs and other technologies to allow for real-time collaboration.  Our Google Site is accessible to all at: http://sites.google.com/site/lis2004courserevisioncommittee/.
New Members for 2010-2011
     The LIS 2004 Course Revision Committee is looking for new committee members to serve a one-year term that will begin in July 2010. It is highly recommended that instructors teaching LIS 2004 apply to serve on the course revision committee. The application is available online at: http://it.spcollege.edu/cfsurveys/survey.cfm?su_id=3361. Deadline for application is June 30th, 2010. We hope to have the new Committee in place by the end of July, 2010.  
Timeline
       The Committee met several times by SPOC, a web conferencing application developed at St. Petersburg College.  We also worked collaboratively using Google Sites/Docs which allowed committee members to edit course modules, post documents, agendas, meeting minutes and describe proposed learning activities. 
       The Committee finished individual module updates in May.  Proofreading and a final edit will take place by the end of June.  We intend to have the course ready for use by the end of June, 2010.  The final revised version of the course will reside at the Orange Grove digital repository.  Announcements will be made on appropriate listserves when the course is available.
Submitted June 4, 2010 by Frank Dowd, Chair