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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills.  Check out these exciting additional resources

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills.  Check out these exciting additional

Why information literacy is important even within the context of social media.

Here is a four minute youtube video on information literacy. Music is a bit overdone, but the message is important.

Association of College and Research Libraries document laying out a set of core concepts surrounding information literacy for teaching students.

As a social media platform, Twitter is extremely easy to use and quick to adopt. Users distribute short snippets of information in a dynamic stream that is accessed on a desktop or mobile device. Twitter's format options allow for a variety of ways to communicate. Users demonstrate transliteracy skills when composing tweets using #hashtags, @messaging,...

This resource is a place to share assessments, lesson plans, activities, and other tools for teaching information literacy concepts in higher education settings. There are a lot of ideas on how to use technology in our teaching.

This LibGuide from Texas A&M includes links for a variety of information literacy tools.

Free University Courses. I recommend *New Media Literacies* in Comparative Media Studies.

Check out the new design and features of their new website. This is the future of information literacy.

This report defines the google generation and discusses how students and researchers, search for the information they need. While not specifically a techtools article, it is important for instructors to understand students may not have the information literacy skills that we think they have!

7 out of 10 college students start their research with Wikipedia according to Project InfoLit's interviews. There's a disconnect between the handouts and faculty advice in my previous post and what students actually do. How can we use some of the tech tools discussed here to reconnect?

This first of two videos shows what college faculty handouts for research projects do and don't include to assist students with their research.

This article posed another question for me to learn and identify the access for an educatinoal community having reach to the equipment to use technolgies. The artilcle identifies a campus population and access to computer. Also, stating the literacy of the campus and use of equipment that access technologies.

Article on partnership between community colleges and Facebook to help teach digital literacy skills.

This tool helps a teacher track who participates in classroom discussions (i.e. how often, how long....)

This LibGuide shares a variety of IL tools and ideas for using technology in our classes.

This group has been studying students and their opinions, habits and abilities in researching online and other information tasks, such as interacting with the news. Makes for some interesting reading!