Information Literacy
Colorado Standards for Information Literacy
Provides links to Colorado's Standards for Information Literacy, which can
help prepare students for the high-tech future.
Gender Representation in
the Media
A list of quality links examining Body Image,
Stereotypes, Gender Issues, and the effects resulting from gender
representations in the media. From the Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Website maintained by Frank Baker, a media educator at Columbia, South
Carolina.
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Information about the standards created by the Association of College
and Research Libraries (ACRL) on January 18, 2000.
TILT: information Literacy Tutorial
An online
information literacy tutorial created by University of Texas System
Digital Library.
Information
Literacy: The Web is not an Encyclopedia
Important points to consider when evaluating the quality of a website,
(with example websites). Created by Lida L. Larsen at University
of Maryland.
LINKS: Your Guide to Finding Information
LCC Library's online tutorial.
The National Forum on Information Literacy
This
organization examines the role of information in our lives,
supports, initiates, and monitors information literacy projects both in
the United States and abroad, encourages the creation and adoption of
information literacy guidelines, and works with teacher education
programs.
SIMILE: Studies in Media & Information Literacy
"Directed at a readership in the fields of information/media studies,
library science, and education, SIMILE will examine ways in which
reference- and teacher-librarians, teachers, and other concerned
professionals can integrate media literacy concepts into instructional
sessions about how to use print and electronic mass media sources."
How to Recognize
Plagiarism
This site provides good practice for identifying
plagiarism. It includes samples (with feedback) of original expository
paragraphs with students' paraphrasing. Feedback includes the reason(s)
why the students' work is or is not plagiarism.
