web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy. materials for instruction at the elementary, secondary and higher education levels
Online debate community. Can set up a debate topic and or pro-con arguments and invite people to add their own arguments. Can also set up private space for students in a class, for example, post a debate topic and require students to back up assertions with sources and proper citations.
There are a large number of Information Literacy, Research, or Information Problem Solving models available for teachers to use with pupils. Below is a selection of some of them.
4 twitter-based storytelling challenges posed to audience - possibly a way for libraries to do the same kind of thing? maybe even somehow incorporate info lit concepts in?
Provides educators and trainers with easy-to- assemble educational games in a technology- enhanced environment to support key learning points. The site demonstrates the creative use of popular game shows and other familiar games to reinforce learning.
share images, docs and videos and create community discussion (audio and text and video) around it. Seems to have potential for instruction. Free version has limits tho.
from Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus: paste text in and it analyzes text, creates tag cloud, shows main subjects falls under, etc. Perhaps there is a way to use this to discuss concept of controlled vocabulary?
based on materials from Key Words, Concepts and Methods for Information Age Instruction: A Guide to Teaching Information Inquiry by Daniel Callison (2003) and THE BLUE BOOK on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction, and Literacy by Daniel Callison and Leslie Preddy (2006).