Shortened pdf of Keynote file. Seminar for NUS Librarians on 23 Apr 2008. I talked a lot more than the slide images indicate so am working on a page of links here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcd59tvc_44fjw6bccf

1. NUS Digital library, web2.0 and
shareware contributions to
Preparing Animal
Behaviour lectures

2. Student Profile
Cross-faculty (enrichment)
195 students
No ‘A’ level biology
70% from Faculty of Arts
16% SDE

3. Course issues
Appreciate animal behaviour
Avoid anthropomorphisms
Appreciate scientific approach
Not “I feel” but “evidence suggests”
Not biology undergraduates

4. Lecture profile
LT 26, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
2.10pm - Late start
3.00pm, 10 mins - Mid-session break
3.45pm - Prompt end
Not 120 mins but 80 mins

5. No textbook
Market - mainly geared to biology
students.
Library - a number of books they can
reference.

6. No textbook
Rapidly evolving field (e.g. lions
and hyaenas)
Journal-based approach has advantages
I provide notes