Everything You Wanted To Know About Blogs And Libraries...

...but were afraid to ask. This site put together by Dr. L. Anne Clyde from the University of Iceland has tons of blog related links. It's definitely worth checking out if you want to learn more about blogs in general and library blogging in particular. Guess there's not much else to do in Iceland other than listen to Bjork.

WikiWikiWiki

I stumbled across the EdTechWiki today. Right now, the short description on the home page is "a collaborative and editable website for people interested in learning and technology." But, as is the nature of wikis, that could change at any moment!

The site contains many links to information on teaching, learning, and the use of technology in both.

Interesting Article

I just had an interesting article pointed out to me in the October 2004 American Libraries called "Building on Bibliographic Instruction" by Esther Grassian. She gives a brief history of "bibliographic instruction" and argues that "information literacy" instruction contains many of the same skills that have historically been taught in BI, just with a new name. She also argues that library instruction should include both the critical thinking or "information literacy" skills and the "traditional""here's how you search this" skills.

Being ALA they don't make articles very accessible online, but American Libraries is available in FT in Academic Search Premier through GALILEO.

Information Literacy As A Liberal Art

This article by Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes from Educom Review (1996) was mentioned a few times in different presentations at the Georgia Conference on Info Lit. It is an interesting read.

More Conference Stuff

Here's some information on a couple more presentations from the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy. I'll post more as I go through my notes.

Speaking Faculty Speak and Avoiding Library Lingo - Michelle Millet

• This was a very interesting presentation on marketing information literacy to teaching faculty. She also had a neat workbook about faculty/ librarian communications and perceptions of info lit.

Moveable Types of Information Literacy - Dennis Jerz

• The index for this presentation on how blogs, wiki and other cool online things are being (or can be) used in information literacy instruction. Interesting perspectives from the teaching faculty side. Jennifer linked to his blog but the presentation stuff isn't on the main page anymore.

Also, any ideas on a better phrase than "teaching faculty" when talking about..umm..teaching faculty?

Information Literacy Information

A few Web resources mentioned and/or created by presenters during the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy.

Sites of Interest:

• The Big6 Information Literacy Model (official Big6 website)
• Information Literacy At USC Aiken (general IL information)
• Kalamazoo College e-portfolios project
• “Plagiarism: Everyone is doing it,” The Charlotte Observer, 9/27/04, 5E. Article mentioned by Dr. Becky Howard in her keynote address. The cached Google version.
• Googlewhack

Presentation Materials:

• Building a Class Website: A Hands-on Approach to Teaching Information Literacy, Bryan Sinclair, UNC Asheville

Blogs:

• The Chutry Experiment (Chuck Tryon’s Personal Blog)
• Rhetoric and Democracy Blog (for Chuck Tryon’s GA Tech English 1101 students)
• (Dennis) Jerz’s Literacy Weblog

Tutorials:

• InfoWizard: Learning Modules from Kent State
• A list of IL tutorials compiled by ACRL
• A list of IL tutorials compiled by LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction
• USC Upstate Library Field Trip Tutorial
• WebWizard: Learning Modules from Bowling Green State

Georgia Conference on Information Literacy

Greetings from Statesboro. The first day of the conference was very interesting. Lots of good tips, ideas for discussion to bring back. Hopefully today will be as interesting.

Most of the presenters have online materials available, so we'll share them over the next week or two.