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INFORMATION LITERACY RESOURCES
Resource
Guides for School Library Media Program Development
AASL
American Association of School Librarians. Bibliography of print and Web resources
for information literacy program development.
Essential
Skills for Information Literacy
WILMA: Washington Library
Media Association, 2002
Teaming With
Opportunity: Media Programs, Community Constituencies, and Technology
Lesley
S.J. Farmer. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001. “Shows you
how to identify and optimize partnerships that benefit your library media center
and help you build a true learning community. In addition to theoretical foundations
of collaboration and learning, hands-on guidance is given for teaming up with
school members, families, universities, libraries, community agencies, professional
organizations, and businesses.”
Dewey Browse
Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for
Grades K-12, created and maintained by Gail Shea Grainger. Combining practical
help in finding quality information on the Web with an overview of the classification
process, this approach helps to integrate Web-based information with the more
traditional sources found in most libraries.
http://www.deweybrowse.org/
International Schools CyberFair
2002.
Students as community content producers. (Their age
makes it easier to forgive the annoying browser screen behaviors.) Students explore
their local worlds and promote them on the Web.
http://www.gsn.org/cf/
LILI (LEARN Information Literacy
Inititaive)
From the Australian government and the LEARN
Network of South Australian TAFE Libraries, this Web-based tutorial "has been
created to provide an online learning opportunity for TAFE students to gain useful
skills in locating and using information."
http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/lili/index.html
Information literacy tutorials
A meta-list of tutorials from higher education compiled by UWill
(University of Washington Libraries.)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/tutorial.html
Examples
of Partnerships Focussed on Information Literacy
These selected examples of information literacy partnerships were
compiled from the Appendix of the Blueprint for Collaboration, a report of the
AASL/ACRL Task Force on the Educational Role of Libraries and from e-mails sent
as a result of a call on several listservs. The list is not comprehensive, but
contains examples of different types of partnerships.
http://www.ala.org/kranich/examples.html
Librarysmart.com
The site for the Washington
State Library Information Literacy Project. Here is where you'll find all the
resources described in the workshop handouts.
http://www.librarysmart.com
Information Literacy and Library
Skills Resources
Online Resources for School Librarians,
School-Libraries.org
http://www.school-libraries.org/resources/literacy.html
Information Power Bibliography,
1998-2001: Suggested Reading List
Washington Library Media
Association. October, 2001. “A compilation of books, journal articles,
and web sites related to some of the tenets of Information Power: Building
Partnerships for Learning, including such topics for school library media
specialists as information literacy instruction, collaboration, leadership, advocacy,
and technology.” http://www.wlma.org/Professional/bibliography.htm
LOEX Clearinghouse for Library
Instruction
LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange) is a self-supporting,
non-profit educational clearinghouse for materials used in library instruction.
http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html
21st Century Literacies
"Resources, both bibliographic and web-based, to assist you in your quest to learn
and/or teach literacy skills. [The Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiatives for 21st Century
Literacies] team of experts developed lessons to aid in your ability to incorporate
21st century literacy skills into your teaching techniques. The tools presented
here are based on a 21st century literacies framework and seek to promote the
skills, knowledge and attitudes to help students develop effective lifelong literacy
awareness, seeking, management and presentation strategies."
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/
Developing
an Information Literacy Program K-12: a How-To-Do-It Manual And CD-ROM Package
Developed by the Iowa City Community School District and edited
by Mary Jo Langhorne. New York: Neal-Schuman, c1998. “All the information
you need to develop a proven integrated curriculum in your school.”
Essential Academic Learning Requirements
(EALRS)
Office
of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington State. In here you will
find frameworks, standards, and assessment rubrics for information literacy learning
outcomes in all disciplines.
http://www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/EALR_GLE.aspx
"Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free-Range
Students."
Jamie McKenzie. Phi Delta Kappan,
80:1: (Sept. 1998) 26-32. Addresses the need to teach students critical
thinking skills for insightfully using the Internet. http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/dept/metrolinc/webquest/Grazing_the_Net.pdf
Info
Tasks for Successful Learning: Building Skills in Reading, Writing and Research
Carol Koechlin, Sandi Zwaan. Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers,
2001. “Provides teachers with a process for involving students in becoming
information literate. Practical and ready-to-use, the book features more
than fifty activities that give students hands-on opportunities to work with information.”
See full description at
http://www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=8133.
Lesson
Plans for The Busy Librarian: a Standards-Based Approach for the Elementary Library
Media Center
Joyce Keeling. Greenwood Village, Colo.: Libraries
Unlimited, 2002. Divided into sections by grade level, from K to 5.
The content is based on AASL/AECT standards (Information Power) and language-arts
standards of Kendall and Marzano, Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
(McREL). Each chapter includes 15-20 lessons, reproducible worksheets, objectives,
directions, the teaching team involved, the learning styles used, and suggested
resources. –School Library Journal
Research Modules
Supporting the Essential Curriculum and Information Literacy,
Baltimore County Public Schools Towson, Maryland.
http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/
Eric Lesson Plans: Information
Literacy
Information literacy lesson plans.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
“Creating
User-Centered Instructions for Novice End-Users.”
Diane
Nahl. Reference Services Review 27:3 1999. 280-286.
Presents specific guidelines for creating effective written instructional materials.
Designs for Active Learning: A Sourcebook of Classroom Strategies for Information Education Gail Gradowski, Loanne Snavely, & Paula Dempsey, eds. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 1998.
Information
Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice
Esther S. Grassian and Joan R. Kaplowitz. New York: Neal-Schuman,
c2001. Comprehensive and in-depth look at all aspects of information literacy
instruction.
Teaching Tips Index
Covering the gamut of education issues; from Honolulu Community College.
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
The Webquest Page
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented
activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from
the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using
information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the
levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
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