Information literacy

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• 50 Free Online Games for Teaching Information Literacy and Information Fluency

  
  The Keyword Blog — Authority: 109
  Learn to Search & Evaluate Internet Resources The 21st Century Information Fluency team just published menus leading to 50 flash based games that teach how to locate and evaluate digital information. Check it out: Links to nearly 50 learning games , including the new three part Snow Sport Challenge. If ...
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• America’s Most Literate Cities, 2009

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 635
  America’s Most Literate Cities, 2009 Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States. This study focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, ...
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• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Winter Break

  
  ACRLog — Authority: 409
  Finals end today at the college where I work, and the semester is coming to a close. I really value the stretch of slower days in the library during the intersession; it’s a great time to take stock of what we’re doing and where we’re headed. This semester was incredibly busy, with a big increase in enrollment ...
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• Infromation literacy framework for Wales

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 420
  Apologies for not posting for a few days: Im in Moscow at the moment on a pre-Christmas break. I have been meaning to post about the meeting on an Information Literacy Framework for Wales that took place 30 Nov to 1st Dec at Gregynog Hall, but thought that Id wait til Id put my own powerpoint on Slideshare. I still ...
  4 days ago

• It’s All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet

  
  HeyJude — Authority: 512
  Newer generations of researchers not schooled in more traditional, library-based (pre-Internet) research methods are used to doing keyword searches on the Internet to discover information. “But if you come from outside a given field, you don’t necessarily know what those keywords are,” says Alyssa Goodman , a ...
  5 days ago

• Google vision-using online resources. video

  
  the Virtual Bookmark — Authority: 116
  Thanks to Lesley Edwards for this referral. Quick video on quality searching, via BCTA Forum post, Dec.18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5slpJMRWKA8  
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• Officially Christmas break for teachers, so why am I blogging?

  
  the Virtual Bookmark — Authority: 116
  It is officially Christmas break for teachers. So why am I blogging? Idiot? Grinch? No, I am excited because I subscribe to the Spark newsfeed. Nora Young of CBC Spark hosts a terrific radio show and podcast . Seth Godin, author, speaker, blogger has just edited an e-book What Matters Now . His books and blog ...
  5 days ago

• U. of Illinois: Texting, Tweeting Ought to be Viewed as GR8 Teaching Tools, Scholar Says

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 635
  From the Report: Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that schools and libraries should consider embracing texting and tweeting as a means of engagement rather than simply outlawing it. “I think if you’re an educator or librarian looking for new ways of to reach ...
  6 days ago

• TRLN Instruction Group Meeting

  
  Professional Development — Authority: 115
  Yesterday I went to Duke for the inaugural meeting of the TRLN Instruction Group. The TRLN is the Triangle Research Libraries Network, comprised of Duke, Central, NCSU, and UNC. However, the organizer of this meeting invited several folks from other libraries including UNCG, Guilford, and here, making it something ...
  6 days ago

• Students Creating Content with Multigenre Learning Artifacts

  
  The Unquiet Librarian — Authority: 512
  Helene Blowers inspired me to think about a greater focus on content creation by patrons (in my case, students) at this summer’s GALILEO Gold Conference. As an English teacher for our district’s summer school program in June 2008, I enjoyed implementing a multigenre research project in which students created ...
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• Sad News from the UK: Intute’s Funding Has Been Cut; After August 2010 Service Will Remain Available with “Minimal Maintenance”

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 635
  Intute’s services are many including a first-rate directory of hand-selected web resources, The Virtual Training Suite , Internet Detective, and more. The good news (if there can be any) is that after August, 2010 the site/service will remain online but only with “minimal maintenance.” Exactly what that ...
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• IATUL papers

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 420
  The proceedings of the 2009 IATUL conference (June 2009: IATUL = International Association of Technological University Libraries) are on the web, with full text papers and presentations. This includes a couple of papers particularly relevant to information literacy: - Elvira Basibas Lapuz: Teaching Web 2.0 ...
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• Journal of Information Literacy

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 420
  The Winter issue 2009 of the Journal of Information Literacy has been published. Susie Andretta: The multifaceted nature of information literacy: solving the Rubik cube puzzle. K. Stuart Ferguson: Information literacy and its relationship to knowledge management: A theoretical study Andrew Whitworth: Teaching ...
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• New Journal Aims to Reframe Doctor-Patient Collaborations in Health Care

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 635
  From the Article: Swallow the doctor’s diagnosis whole, or spend weeks plowing through the primary research literature at a medical library—at the risk of alienating your physician. Those were two of the primary choices available to lay people diagnosed 20 years ago with a serious disease. Today, motivated ...
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• Web 2.0 in Libraries – 2D and 3D

  
  HeyJude — Authority: 512
  Thanks to Sheila Webber for providing a constant flow of information related to libraries. Her Information Literacy Weblog provides real up-to-date gems year after year – she saves me time I must say! I have also always enjoyed Sheila’s photography that provides a nice contrast to the steady information flow. ...
  2 weeks ago

• New: A Guide to Using Web 2.0 in Libraries

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 635
  From Sheila Webber’s Information Literacy Blog: The Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) launched two new guidance toolkits at the annual SLIC Further Education Conference, on 3 December. One of them was A Guide to Using Web 2.0 in Libraries. Sections include: + What is Web 2.0? + Why use Web ...
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• The way I work

  
  The Hot Strudel — Authority: 134
  Hier ist ein recht lesenswerter Artikel aus dem Inc Magazine : The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals . You could sum up Jason Frieds philosophy as "less is more." Except that he hates that expression, because, he says, it still "implies that more is better." Fried prefers "less is less." Its a core principle ...
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• Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year 2010

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 420
  There is a call for nominations for Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year 2010 (A Joint CSG IL, CONUL and LAI Award). Individuals or groups may self nominate or may be nominated by a colleague. The award is open to all working within the UK or Ireland. The closing date for nominations is the 31st January ...
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• Highlights Only: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Library Reference, Info Literacy and Subject Specialist Staff

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 635
  This is a fee-based report from Primary Research for $89.50. However, the summary/news release does contain some highlights. The study presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States & Canada use the virtual reference services, subject specialists and info literacy staff of their academic ...
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• Imagine: The End of Multiple Citation Styles

  
  The Unquiet Librarian — Authority: 512
  William Gunn posed one of the most intriguing questions I have seen in some time: Twitter / mrgunn: @buffyjhamilton Thanks. Th … via kwout I readily admit to feeling a sense of elation and relief at the thought of one uniform citation style instead of the current maze of style manuals we ...
  2 weeks ago

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