SUNYLA WGIL

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).

create a game-show experience inside a webinar. Not sure about costs though.

JISC funded study page, includes links to report: Thriving in the 21st century: Learning Literacies for the Digital Age

Scroll down this newsletter to find marathon coach Jeff Galloway's technique for mentally preparing for the Big Race. Then Replace the word "marathon" with "class". Down to earth vsualization for those who don't like visualization.

Principles of Mental Rehearsal --Jeff Galloway

This is a cool resource! I could totally see making a comparison (if carefully done) between preparation for running a marathon and student preparation for doing a major research project. Planning out some steps beforehand and breaking the process out into little steps to accomplish will help you get started and finish the race, etc...

blog to accompany book by Jerilyn Veldof

post from Education section of Change.org by Shelly Blake-Plock. Talks about the realities of digital media and the skills necessary to navigate it's various manifestations.

Group within LearnCentral.org for librarians who provide instruction services to distance learners to share & collaborate on ideas, best practices, technology use, etc.

Place for librarians who provide service to distance learners to share and collaborate on ideas, experiences, best practices, technology use and more.

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.

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

also includes link to reflection journal questions

Some good ideas in here for how to help students make critical sense of Wikipedia.

Ways to teach students about Wikipedia

Article by marketing/focus group/psychology guru George Silverman. I've used several of these techniques in library instruction. Sections allude to motivation, creating a positive atmosphere, questioning techniques, building confidence and influence with your audience. - sjm

Digital Literacy is... Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using digital technology. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No-there's more to it than that.

A very well done site. Although I am left wondering why they call it "digital" literacy when it is mainly about scholarship and academic levels of literacy in a world that happens to be networked.

I like the menu theme used and the way they set expectations for faculty requests for instruction. A decent model.

Lone Star College online request form with menu theme, which includes links to outcomes

Michigan Academician, Wntr, 2009 by Jane P. Currie

Michigan Academician, Wntr, 2009 by Sara D. Miller (via BNET)