What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher? I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills. What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3 hour time commitment?
Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class. Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes.
Knowing where to look is an essential aspect of information fluency. Google, Yahoo, Bing are just the top of the pyramid. Here's a list of search engines. How many have you even heard of, let alone used?
This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators. As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns. What a find!