SUNYLA WGIL

by Sook Lim and Christine Simon. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 4 - 4 April 2011

Lee, J., Paik, W. & Joo, S. (2012). "Information resource selection of undergraduate students in academic search tasks" Information Research, 17(1) paper511.

stats and poll data on libraries

article describing a very interesting Boise St Univ library instruction program from In the Library with the Lead Pipe blog.

In the Library with the Lead Pipe post/article

Lifehacker blog post, Aug 5, 2010.

Great little article that could be used as a lead into a discussion of information/web evaluation issues. For example, poll students on the 3 "everyone knows" questions and then delve into why "popular" knowledge/assumptions can be wrong and how the information in this article might be checked as well.

blog to accompany book by Jerilyn Veldof

Global History project using aspects of role-playing to immerse students in primary sources and place some more personalized context around larger events. Use of character & fate cards.

A sort of role-playing game. Students consult primary sources and produce information from perspective of their "character" and their "fate" (letter home, interview, or diary entry by character).

videos of high profile keynote speakers (Clay Shirky, Doug Lynch, many others) from the Elliot Masie's Learning 2011 conference.

created by Jon Mueller

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.

Making Change blog post by Cathy Moore July 5, 2011

More of a range-finder for analyzing info dump vs action-oriented (active learning) lesson plans

"The Twelve Cognitive Processes that Underlie Learning"

Tyron J., Frigo E. and O'Kelly M. 2010. Journal of information literacy, 4(2), pp 62-77

Making it clear to scientists which words cause communication problems. You can see the list from the Physics Today paper

Chart could be used to teach importance of brainstorming possible key words and understanding the jargon of your discipline.

an alternative to traditional primary, secondary, etc. terms for sources based on use rather than on source.

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

An professional development opportunity

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Learning Objects Site

An opportunity to celebrate student excellence supported by Library resources and services: web site highlighting student achievement using the library - perhaps base this around a contest?