Information Literacy Workshops
East
Bakersfield High School
Each workshop will focus on one of the important
areas of information literacy. The web
sites below can help you understand some aspects of information literacy and
may be good teaching tools for your students.
Workshop 1 What is Information Literacy?
Sample assignment and
rubric from English 2, Bakersfield College Biology professor Janet Fulks team- taught English 2 in the fall. Here are both the assignment for the culminating
paper and the rubric by which students’ papers are graded. Paper
Assignment Rubric
Information
Literacy Documents This page
brings together all of the explanations and activities that were developed by
the Information Literacy Working Team of the Kern High School District and
Bakersfield College.
Information
Cycle This web
tutorial explains how we receive our information in a cyclical manner. Produced by a team at Penn State and
focusing on the Columbine tragedy, it can easily be used with students.
Workshop 2 Getting Started: Developing and Narrowing the Topic; Developing a Source List
Jamie McKenzie’s Questioning.org McKenzie is a former school principal and
superintendent who explores ways in which to make research meaningful for
students. His suggestions, available in
the articles linked to this web site, are simple yet provocative. Look at the Questioning Toolkit, available
under “Articles.”
For
the Best Answer, Ask Tough Questions This
engaging article by Joyce Valenza originally appeared in The Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Finding
Background Information Places to encourage students to look for background
information are located at this web site, developed by the library staff at
Duke University.
What is a
Thesis? Many activities are here that can help your students shape what their
project will focus upon. Look at the Thesis Generator. It’s part of a great number of resources created
by Joyce Valenza, a nationally recognized library media teacher. There is also a great list of other
thesis-related links at the bottom of this page.
Workshop 3 Online Catalog and Databases See library staff for passwords.
Keyword
Searching Use this web site from Duke University to find out about Keyword
searching. You can enter the site as a guest user and still see the lessons.
The keyword exercise includes helpful hints of strategies to use as well as
keywords to avoid. There’s much more about research techniques to explore at
this site, too.
Online Library Catalog Do you know
that you can look for books, videos, and other library materials from your
classroom computer? Learn to use our
Meriwether catalog at this site. Note:
our catalog is on a school intranet, so it can only be accessed from computers
on the school network.
Gale/Infotrac
Database This database our school subscribes to has reference articles, magazine
and newspaper articles, and images related to many topics. Get password from
library staff.
Grolier We subscribe to several encyclopedias at this site. From home, you must go through KernLearn to access it.
Gale Resources for
Teachers You can find handouts that explain searching methods for the different
resource centers at this site. Click on
“Teachers” and then “Teaching Tools.”
Workshop 4 Search Engines, Search Directories, and Internet Evaluation
Search Engines and Search
Directories This web page directs you to some of my favorite search tools.
LII’s
Search Tools Page Get a start
where the experts do at this combination search page.
Evaluation of Search
Engines If you would like to know how search engines how work and how they
differ, look at this site done by a librarian in Ireland.
Workshop 5 Note-taking, Plagiarism, and Copyright
Reading for Information You can find easy-to-use tips for helping students learn to take notes in this article by Barbara Jansen.
Real Life Examples of Works Cited Problems Jaquie Henry, a librarian, has put together this helpful and humorous site. It matches up with the Works Cited Rubric in your Info Lit binder to teach students about works cited errors to avoid.
Copyright
Resources from Hall Davidson Downloadable guides to teachers’ questions about
fair use are at this helpful site.
Put an End to
Plagiarism in Your Classroom This article by Linda Starr discusses strategies
that teachers can use to fight plagiarism. It includes a printable student
guide to preventing plagiarism.
Anti-Plagiarism
Strategies You will find sensible suggestions
to use with students to prevent plagiarism before it happens at this site
created by Robert Harris.
Turnitin.com This
commercial site has some interesting statistics on plagiarism. You might want to explore their product for
discovering plagiarism.
Resource list compiled by
Dawn Dobie, Library Media Teacher Last
updated 11/23/05