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Great list to help raise awareness

Website with guides to a large variety of digital literacy topics, including videos and guidebooks. 

Queensland University of Technology "This online information literacy tutorial provides undergraduates with the skills and tools to find and manage information effectively. Choose one module to suit your needs or complete all six. Pass the test for your Pilot licence."

Project Information Literacy is a national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age. Based in University of Washington's iSchool, the large-scale research project investigates how early adults on different college campuses conduct research for course work and how they conduct "everyday research" for use in their daily lives... "

Joyce Valenza's wiki on Information Literacy and Web 2.0. Amazing resources for librarians and all educators. Presented at NECC.

Dewey Pictograms Reproducible images portraying collections within the Dewey Decimal Classification System, enabling people with disabilities, low literacy skills, etc., to better locate materials in the library's collection; these can be mounted on bookstacks or special mounts in the collection.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.

The Comic Book Project. An arts-based literacy initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University.

In celebration of Media Awareness Week (November 2-6, 2009) we are encouraging students, teachers, and the general public to create videos, digital stories, text, images or any digital media that showcases the different ways they are Media Literate.

A good short piece about how users search, and the importance of teaching information literacy in schools

From the CILIP Information Literacy Group web site - http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/

From the CILIP Information Literacy Group web site - http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/

This site is wonderful for teacher librarians to find out more about integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum and thus facilitate and encourage the development of information literate students.

"Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy."