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A visual research guide that is designed to help students with a small business research project.
Posted on May 10, 2018
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Research Guide
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
A visual research guide that is designed to help students with a legal issue research project.
Posted on May 10, 2018
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Research Guide
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
The purpose of this activity is to inspire students to adopt structured methods when they explore and retrieve information. It is based on lab notebooking methods and on managing and documenting the flow of references in Zotero, a reference management software.The first principle is based on a tree of collections to manage the references arriving in the Zotero library. Some basic methods are suggested and the students are invited to create their own. The second principle is based on standalone notes to document all the research process through online database, libraries and experts.
Posted on March 9, 2018
Contributor: Pascal Martinolli
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This module is intended to address fundamental information literacy skills appropriate for students in the first two years of college. It is designed to be incorporated into any LMS for use in both online and face to face courses. The module is divided into five self-paced chapters that progress through the stages of a student research process. Each chapter should take roughly 30 minutes to complete, and covers two to three learning outcomes that lend themselves to early college student information literacy and align with the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education,...
Posted on March 2, 2018
Contributor: Olivia Reinauer
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
This template gives space to outline an Information Literacy session, allowing a department to create a more cohesive program, or a single librarian to maintain an organized sense of their own sessions.This single page template gives space for teaching and learning activities, applying a frame, tools used for the session, assesment techniques used, time taken, as well as assigning it to a course and instructor.
Posted on February 9, 2018
Contributor: Hanna Primeau
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material, Assignment Prompt, Curriculum Map, Instruction Program Material, Lesson Plan, Other
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
In this activity, students think metacognitively as they search to work out strategies for navigating the search process. In the process, they use Google Docs to collaboratively produce a Search Tips sheet which the whole class can refer back to.
Posted on January 29, 2018
Contributor: Heather Beirne
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
An explanation of different kinds of authority that students might recognize in a piece of information accompanied by a list of articles about global warming that appeal to, invoke, or otherwise discuss these authorities. Students should skim one or more of the articles, answer some questions about them, and discuss their ideas with their peers.
Posted on January 26, 2018
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Paper discussing a proposal for an information fluency initiative at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Posted on January 23, 2018
Contributor: Greg Hardin
Resource Type(s): Publication, White Paper, Other
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
University of North Texas Libraries' Library Literacy Escape Room Student Learning Outcomes as tied to ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) created in planning stages of the UNT Libraries Escape the Library escape room created for UNT First Flight (freshman orientation).
Posted on January 23, 2018
Contributor: Greg Hardin
Resource Type(s): Learning Outcomes List
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
This exercise offers students a list of curated links that they will use to complete an assigned project on green roofs. Students must evaluate, summarize, annotate, cite, and synthezize the materials in a completed document containing an ultimate recommendation for a course of action. Requires EBSCO access.
Posted on January 16, 2018
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry