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.
