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I also created a group there for "Distance Librarians" - please join if interested!

social learning network for education, sponsored by Elluminate. Free, open environment with live, online meeting and collaboration space provided by Elluminate technology. For educators passionate about teaching and learning and want connect with like-minded colleagues to share content, develop best practices, and collaborate on a global level.

from ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

a 3-year project (October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2011), to support the design, development, testing, and evaluation of a computer game to teach incoming undergraduate students information literacy skills and concepts

Thomas A. DeVaney, from JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 5, No. 4 December 2009

An interactive branching storyline video series on YouTube that attempts to teach kids non-violence.

I now have it in my mind to create something like this for information literacy! Perhaps using screencasting and having students make critical choices in a sample research process that can then show them the outcomes of various strategies, from topic choice to searching to paraphrasing and writing.

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