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Full-Text Articles in Information Literacy
Leveraging Visual Literacy To Engage And Orient First-Year College Students In The Library, Melissa Clark
Leveraging Visual Literacy To Engage And Orient First-Year College Students In The Library, Melissa Clark
Librarian and Staff Presentations
Too often incoming students leave library orientation sessions feeling overwhelmed and overstressed, which results in the library becoming one more intimidating obstacle to them. However, this does not need to be the case. Visual literacy and visual culture can be leveraged to engage students and improve library orientation sessions.
Rethinking Information Literacy Assessment: Relevance, Reliability, And Validity Of Constructs And Measures, Melissa Clark
Rethinking Information Literacy Assessment: Relevance, Reliability, And Validity Of Constructs And Measures, Melissa Clark
Librarian and Staff Publications
Information literacy assessment has traditionally approached student learning as the acquisition of declarative knowledge, which can be measured with easily-graded true/false and multiple-choice questions. Although such measures may prove highly reliable in test-retest situations, they are not valid measures of knowledge or learning, because they fail to test procedural and conditional knowledge, both of which are essential for students to reach the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. This omission can partially explain the disconnect between scores on tests of information literacy and students’ continued poor performance on research assignments. Furthermore, information literacy assessment has failed to address the social and …
I Can See My House From Here: Five Cool Learning Activities Using Google Earth, R Philip Reynolds
I Can See My House From Here: Five Cool Learning Activities Using Google Earth, R Philip Reynolds
Librarian and Staff Presentations
Workshop introducing Google Earth to faculty members at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Developing Electronic Collections With Shrinking Budgets (Doing More With Less), R Philip Reynolds
Developing Electronic Collections With Shrinking Budgets (Doing More With Less), R Philip Reynolds
Librarian and Staff Presentations
A lot of this may seem like basic information that we all know but, Google changes features continually and it is often hard to keep up. When I last counted the Google services listed under More Google and under “Labs” I came up with seventy different products or services with fifty-two of those products being search related. How many of these are we really familiar with let alone their individual operators and capabilities? In their book Google Hacks Bausch, Calishain, Dornfest list hack #1 as being aware of and using the Google directory, #2 is Google Zeitgeist, #4 is the …
Utilizing Technology, Lani Draper, Marthea Turnage
Utilizing Technology, Lani Draper, Marthea Turnage
Librarian and Staff Publications
Technology and library instruction are viewed from every angle in this chapter. It examines the technology skills of students on, in particular, distance education students. The chapter looks at how librarians are incorporating technology into library instruction at a distance and examines the newest technology tools available for distance instruction.
Introduction To Library Research, R Philip Reynolds
Introduction To Library Research, R Philip Reynolds
Librarian and Staff Presentations
An in depth scenario for a tutorial describing the steps of task definition, concept analysis and search strategies.
Your Brain On Information Literacy: Acrl Immersion ’05, Carol Scamman, Robin Kinder, Priscilla Coulter
Your Brain On Information Literacy: Acrl Immersion ’05, Carol Scamman, Robin Kinder, Priscilla Coulter
Librarian and Staff Publications
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Tooling Up For Internet Searching, R Philip Reynolds
Tooling Up For Internet Searching, R Philip Reynolds
Librarian and Staff Presentations
Workshop given to faculty students and staff.
User Assumptions And Information Seeking Patterns Of Electronic Information, Ling Hwey Jeng, R Philip Reynolds
User Assumptions And Information Seeking Patterns Of Electronic Information, Ling Hwey Jeng, R Philip Reynolds
Librarian and Staff Presentations
User assumptions and internet resources for health information consumers, and specialists.