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RT @heyjudeonline: 50 Free Online Games for Teaching Information Literacy and Information Fluency http://ow.ly/SvG7
JeffreyKeefer (Jeffrey Keefer) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:28:21 -0000
RT @heyjudeonline: 50 Free Online Games for Teaching Information Literacy and Information Fluency http://ow.ly/SvG7
A Simple Definition: Web 2.0 http://bit.ly/79UXTh will share with my 7th grade technology and information literacy class! Awesome :)
shannonmmiller (shannonmmiller) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:24:50 -0000
A Simple Definition: Web 2.0 http://bit.ly/79UXTh will share with my 7th grade technology and information literacy class! Awesome :)
RT @heyjudeonline50 Free Online Games for Teaching Information Literacy and Information Fluency http://ow.ly/SvG7 My 7thgr use these-reccmnd
bcdtech (Maureen Tumenas) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:57:58 -0000
RT @heyjudeonline50 Free Online Games for Teaching Information Literacy and Information Fluency http://ow.ly/SvG7 My 7thgr use these-reccmnd
50 Free Online Games for Teaching Information Literacy and Information Fluency http://ow.ly/SvG7
heyjudeonline (Judy O'Connell) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:17:10 -0000
50 Free Online Games for Teaching Information Literacy and Information Fluency http://ow.ly/SvG7
Thursday, 04 Feb 2010 INFORMATION LITERACY (IL) TRAINING FOR TRAINERS
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Thursday, 04 Feb 2010 INFORMATION LITERACY (IL) TRAINING FOR TRAINERS
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21st Century Information Fluency Project Portal - Designed to train users in the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to fully understand Information Fluency. Focuses on teaching people how to locate, evaluate, and integrate digital information.
Meta Description: [ The 21st Century Information Fluency Project (21CIF) at IMSA provides professional development, tools and resources to develop the digital information fluency skills of educators and learners in Illinois and beyond. ]

404 Alliance for Childhood - Resources relating to the recently formed Alliance for Childhood on technology literacy.

Assessment of Information Literacy: Lessons from the Higher Education Assessment Movement - This paper reviews higher education assessment methods; identifies useful theories and practices; describes assessment programs in academic libraries; and makes recommendations for changes in library education and for future research.
Meta Description: [ Assessment of Information Literacy: Lessons from the Higher Education Assessment Movement by Lois M. Pausch and Mary Pagliero Popp presented during the 1997 ACRL National Conference in Nashville ]

Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology - This paper discusses using hypermedia to eliminate the language barriers that limited English proficient (LEP) students experience in the school settings.

Critical Thinking in an Online World - Author Debra Jones argues that critical thinking is a key component of information literacy instruction in this conference paper from 1996.

Cult of the Palm Pilot - This essay appears on the Boston Phoenix webpage. Dan Kennedy reflects on the changes in literacy practices that palm computing makes possible.

404 Developing New Literacies: Using the Internet in Content Area Instruction - Paper discussing using the new literacy in content area instruction, how this area is changing, time restrictions, protection of children, keeping up with new developments and preparing children for their literacy and learning futures.

Digital Immortal - Article by Robert Lucky (pdf) questioning the continuing dominance of information technology. Original manuscript title: Information Technology: Will This Too, Pass?
Meta Description: [ Selected Papers by Robert W. Lucky ]

Educational Technology Timeline - A timeline running from 40,000 BC to 2203 AD linking to important events in the development of educational technologies.
Meta Description: [ Educational Technology Timeline ]

404 Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression - Describes a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division suggested by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression.

404 Expanding the Concept of Literacy - This article discusses a new definition of literacy which states, Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a variety of forms. The concept of text is expanded to include messages of all sorts.

500 First Monday: Technology and Education - This article deals with the mainstreaming of technology into the education system and the chaos that often ensues, the benefits of this change, and how it might be managed.
Meta Description: [ This article explores contemporary issues of technology in education, investigating its impact upon the American educational system, and examining the nature of its unprecedented relationship to the posthaste changes of the information age ]

Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals - Stevan Harnad in this D-Lib Magazine piece argues for self-archiving of scholarly work.

FutureKids of South Florida - This organization is dedicated to Helping teachers and children around the world master the power of the computer along with providing technology education solution for public and private schools as well as other organizations. FutureKids also offers computer classes for anyone: from the whiz kid to the adventurous grandparent.

Higher Education in the Information Age - 1997 symposium about the technological future and new models for delivery of education; new markets, competition, opportunities, issues, and business relationships in education; and the future of the undergraduate experience. Participant background and program details.

Information Communication Technology in New Zealand - Supports the integration of Information Communication Technology and Information Literacy across the curriculum. It outlines the SAUCE model for research and problem solving and aims to provide articles and resources to encourage higher thinking in the classroom.
Meta Description: [ ICT, as used in New Zealand is a tool to enhance teaching and learning. This site focuses on how ICT can be sued to facilitate higher thinking. ]

Information Literacy and the Net - A series of modules to help students explore Internet resources through engaging in different forms of literacy, including visual literacy. A staff development project developed by Bellingham Public Schools in Bellingham, Washington.

Information Literacy as a Liberal Art - Article which discusses literacy in a broad, historical sense, and lists seven dimensions of literacy.

404 Information Literacy in a Nutshell: Basic Information for Academic Administrators and Faculty - An introduction to the concept of information literacy and model information literacy programs. It is designed specifically for academic administrators and faculty. Many links to additional related resources.
Meta Description: [ The following brief guide provides an introduction to the concept of information literacy and model information literacy programs. ]

Information Literacy: A Clarification - Provides a history of literacy, including discussion of different concepts of literacy. It focuses specifically on the nebulous concept of information literacy and its impact on schools and libraries.

Interactive Instruction for Adult Learners - Links to adult literacy topics including interactive geography games, grammar, voter involvement, lesson plans with Internet-based resources and a link for low-level literacy learners.

International Society for Technology in Education - ISTE is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the use of information technology to aid in learning, teaching of K-12 students and teachers. A major goal of the organization is to bridge the digital divide

Learning Online: Extending the Meaning of Community - A review of three programs from the Southeastern United States, which describes how online learning enhanced three organizations: SeniorNet, Neighborhood Networks, and Bridging the Gap of Isolation/Powering Up.

Literacy in the Information Age - As we enter a new millennium, the technology that we use to communicate with each other is proceeding at a fantastic pace. The key questions for us as educators are how is this technology best used to benefit our students, and how will this new technology affect them and their futures?

404 Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge - Outlines the U.S. Department of Education's plan to increase information literacy in the classroom. It discusses issues such as equity, access and development.

National Educational Technology Standards - Provides educators with criteria to use and factors to consider for better implementation of technology in public education.

Orality, Literacy, and the Future of Computer-Mediated Communication - A historical perspective on the growth of electronic communication. Offers examples from Socrates to Martin Luther of how technology influences human interaction.

404 Publications by Donald Leu - Various publications on internet and literacy.

Structuring writing for reading: hypertext and the reading body. - This paper examines some textual devices that writers may use to pre-structure the activities of their readers. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used as an 'explicating device' to explore how writers can provide reading instructions, and how these can be experienced by readers. Structuring devices like paragraphs and sections, and hypertextual elements like notes and references are investigated in detail. In this way, the paper aspires to contribute to 'an ethnomethodology of textual practices'. - Abstract from Article
Meta Description: [ Information on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis ]

TechMission: Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4) - Nondenominational organization which supports Christian community computer access and skills centers around the world, seeking to make churches and Christian organizations a driving force in computer literacy. Descriptions of programs, events, and resources available.
Meta Description: [ TechMission supports Christian organizations, churches and ministries in using technology to serve at-risk communities through community technology centers, online safety and technology in youth programs. ]

Technology CyberTrends - Quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators regarding the digital revolution, digital dawn, information highway, and Internet.

Technology Issues for Educators - Teams of educators participating in an online course developed a set of white papers on how new information and communication technologies affect schools. They produced educators' guides to Access Issues, Credibility and Web Evaluation, Free Speech versus Censorship, Privacy, Commercialism, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Plagiarism, Computer Crime and Technology Misuse.
Meta Description: [ CTER White Papers on Technology Issues for Educators: A set of policy papers related to issues related to technology uses in education, developed by K-12 teachers in the CTER Online master of education program in the College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ]

Technology used in Adult Literacy Programs - This is a paper on how technology is affecting adult literacy programs.

TeenLit.com - Dedicated to publishing teen writing, as well as book reviews by teenagers. Teachers and parents of adolescents will find useful information. Teen and teacher discussions, author home pages, and more

Tella: Virtual School in a Networking Learning Environment - The present paper describes factors that have facilitated the transformation of industrial societies to information and network societies; the possibilities of virtual school as a future-oriented school form; the tools of the new information and communication technology; and global networking as a framework for the learning environment.

The Gutenberg Elegies - Excerpts from the printed book _The Gutenberg Elegies_ by Sven Birkerts. Concerning the ways language and thought change together in a little dance.

404 The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge - Article by UCLA professor Richard Lanham which discusses how the current trend of text moving from paper to screen will force us to rethink literacy
Meta Description: [ Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group working to protect your digital rights. ]

TILT Texas Information Literacy Tutorial - A short presentation of the meaning of literacy in the information age.
Meta Description: [ Libraries, in Texas and around the world, provide access to a variety of resources including the Internet. By increasing your information literacy skills, you can more effectively select, search and evaluate those sources. This interactive library tutorial, created by the Digital Informatio... ]

404 Will Libraries Survive? - Geoffrey Nunberg reviews the history and politics surrounding the digitization of libraries.
Meta Description: [ This biweekly magazine of politics, policy and culture provides intelligent, entertaining and enlightening commentary on important issues of our time. ]