Information Literacy FPLC McGuire 2007-8
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Reflections on my Experience in the Information Literacy Faculty and Professional Learning Community, Megan McGuire, Library Department, Mesa Community College, Contact me (mailto:mcguire@mail.mc.maricopa.edu)
Sumary: My project summary.
Information Literacy FPLC Background
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My Initial Views on Information Literacy
Information literacy is an essential lifelong skill.
My Goals or Hopes for My Information Literacy FPLC Experience
As a former MCC and ASU student in English and as a current University of Arizona student in the Masters in Information Resources and Library Science program, I believe that information literacy is an invaluable skill that all students need to be taught. I was never taught while getting my English degree, either at MCC or at ASU, how to do research. And research is really important when writing all of those papers English students have to write. Currently at UA, many of my fellow classmates complain that they don't know how to research or use the library webpage. Why didn't any of my instructor's ever make sure that we learned that skill? It would have made things so much easier on all of us and less frustrating for the students. Students are so insecure when coming to the library and many of them don't like to ask for help. Many don't even bother coming to the library. How can we reach out to those students?
My hope is that we can come up with ways that instructors and the library can work together in order to help their students be able to search for, evaluate, and use information is an effective and knowledgeable way.
Information Literacy FPLC Activities Experienced
During our second meeting, I was asked to give a demonstration of an information literacy tutorial. The tutorial I demonstrated was TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial. TILT is a web-based tutorial that focuses on teaching primarily undergraduate students fundamental research skills including selecting appropriate sources, searching library databases and the Internet, and evaluating and citing information. Each of these skills are taught in a separate module that includes interactions. At the end of each of the three modules is a quiz, and the results of the quiz can be emailed to their teacher and/or printed. Anybody can use the tutorial.
Another project that I worked on with two members of the FPLC was creating an online library tour tutorial for library users.
Reflection on my Experience in Information Literacy FPLC
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Final Reflection on Information Literacy in Teaching and Learning
I enjoyed working with the members of this FPLC. It was a little disappointing that we were left with only people from the library in the end.
Annotated Resources and References on Information Literacy
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