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If you plan on viewing this event with a group of 3 or more people, please purchase at the group rate.A 90-minute workshop, Thursday, May 23, 4:30pm Eastern/3:30pm Central/2:30pm Mountain/1:30pm Pacific This is an online event hosted through Webex.
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You've arrived at the tip of the iceberg. There's a tremendous amount of free content, helpful resources and ideas on this site for improving the array of 21st Century Skills we call information fluency (others call it information literacy). To help you find what you need, here are a few tips for effectively using this site.
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It may be ironic that it takes significant search skills to find the wealth of information about informaiton fluency packed into the 21CIF website. To open doors to content, this page will introduce you to hyperlinked content that will help you to teach students how to locate, evaluate, and ethically use digital information.
Curious? Give it a click!
Sandra Carswell's curator insight,
April 8, 9:59 PM
Useful for information literacy lessons and self-paced modules for students.
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In a widespread effort to support teachers and students in the tricky art of evaluating information, NoodleTools has made freely available its Show Me Information Literacy Modules:http://www.noodletools.com/guide/showme/
With a mix of vibrant images, visual annotation and text, the modules are designed by educators at NoodleTools to engage students in information literacy and the research process. What constitutes credible information? How does source type contribute to relevance, authority and point of view? How do I evaluate and cite born-digital images and online sources?
Over twenty full modules are available, addressing source and website evaluation, digital literacy skills, plagiarism prevention and ethical writing. There are three progressive levels to choose from (Starter, Junior and Advanced) for elementary through university students.
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Debbie Abilock is a seasoned professional librarian and media specialist who is the driving force behind NoodleTools. These new modules promise affordable, on demand, modular training. Check them out!
Deborah Owen's curator insight,
May 14, 9:55 AM
Useful information about our NoodleTools subscription.
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Wikipedia's most common sources of information are news outlets, books, and academic archives. So if your teacher has banned Wikipedia, just follow Wikipedia's trail of sources to get to the good stuff. Oh, and don't tell them we sent you.
Dennis T OConnor's insight:
Wikipedia is a solid way to begin a search on many topics IF you follow the backtrail to the sources listed in the article.
Deborah Owen's curator insight,
May 7, 8:12 AM
Hmmm... Worth knowing about. Still can't cite it, but a good place to start for background info.
Sarah Rach-Sovich's curator insight,
May 7, 9:06 AM
A great starting point - track it back to see where it might have come from.
Lorena Swetnam's curator insight,
May 7, 9:43 AM
Teach students and teachers how Wikipedia can be a starting point in the research process, not the final destination.
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This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on "Content Curation for Nonprofits" with Will Coley. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session.
I’ve been a content curator for many years, using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. Will Coley, comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies. Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled.
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Content curation brings applied information fluency skills into the marketplace.
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The Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts is produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Kodansha International Ltd., which is responsible for the contents of the site.
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While the personalised web has potential, it will only really work if we have an actual, human element behind it, surfacing the best content or influencing an ad algorithm based on expertise and experience.
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If we consciously mix our information filters will the resulting bubbles surface new content or get in the way of serendipitous discovery?
Jenn Alevy's comment,
May 7, 10:51 PM
Great question, I miss having things pop up that I had never seen before. That is the joy and wonder of the internet.
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Online archive of more than 2m books, documents, photographs and artworks from all over US now available to view for free
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Digitsed collections for many great US libraries mean more online access to primary sources
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This infographic captures the impact of the school library and the school library staff on student learing, reading and academic achievement.
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Library research/statistics consultant - School library impact studies - LJ Index - Project evaluation - Proposal Writing
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Keith Curry Lance's research work on the effectiveness of professionally staffed library media centers is remarkable. The fact that in the face of impeccable proof that professional librarians and media staff provide remarkable boosts to student learning--libraries are still being closed makes me question any bibrary closing decision maker who claims to be research driven.
If you are not familiar with his work, you should be!
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The Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA), Education Law Center (ELC) and Health Sciences Library Consortium were awarded a National Leadership research grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for this study. By analyzing the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), which measures reading, writing, math, and science achievement for schoolchildren, this study determined that “reading and writing scores are better for students who have a full-time certified librarian than those who don’t.”
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I"m surprised research is still being done on this topic. For my money, Kieth Curry Lance proved the point sometime ago: http://keithcurrylance.com/
Karen Bonanno's curator insight,
April 29, 4:26 PM
Advocate outside the education sector to get some attention.
It is this statement that alerts me to the need to do this ... "When the study initially began, researchers discovered that many lawmakers were ignorant to the struggles facing school libraries in that many did not know that schools were not required to have libraries, while others were unaware of how quickly school library programs were being cut."
Dennis T OConnor's comment,
April 30, 3:21 PM
Those interested in research that PROVES the power of a professionally staffed library media center should go to Kiety Curry Lance's website. His decade long studies are the strongest research I know of that look into the effectiveness of library media specialists. http://keithcurrylance.com/
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This tool is built on Google's Advanced Search and conducts a Google search with the keywords that you fill in for each field. As you type, WATCH as the Wizard builds your query in the search box above. Then click Search. Evaluate the results and revise your keywords to get the best results for your topic!
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Think of this as Google Training Wheels! This advanced search help page will guide you though the hidden search features of Google. Click the question mark for context sensitive help and tips.
Christine Bushong's curator insight,
May 7, 8:11 AM
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Think of this as Google Training Wheels! This advanced search help page will guide you though the hidden search features of Google. Click the question mark for context sensitive help and tips.
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Presentation slides for my webinar on the 11 May (2013) to students from an Online Course in Research methodology for PhD scholars at the Shreemati Nathibai Dam
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May 17, 8:37 AM
This is a great resource for anyone looking to get their research out there. Some great links and tools are provided. Thanks to Zaid Ali Alsagoff for the presentation and to Anna Waits for scooping!
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This guide provides instructions and ideas for using the Action Zone activities that are bundled in this Ethical Use Kit. The Sorting Hat Challenge requires searchers to dig for information within a site to find its author. Four new MicroModule Companions test skills in finding information about Copyright, Citation and Plagiarism (2 sets). In addition to serving as tutorial resources, each one may be used to assess the extent to which students are able to demonstrate skills in secondary searching and citing resources properly.
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This is vintage work from Dr. Carl Heine and me. I'm always pleased to share this! You'll find lots of goodies here!
Lourense Das's curator insight,
February 9, 6:34 AM
Info and tools to discuss search techniques, copyright, plagiarism
Nancy Jones's curator insight,
February 21, 12:44 PM
Always good stuff from the work of Dennis O'Connor and Carl Heine. Thanks for making our jobs a little easier while helping make our students a little wiser.
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In Professional Learning in the Digital Age: The Educator's Guide to User-Generated Learning, Kristen Swanson shows educators how to enhance their pro...
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Curation is a natural for teachers and Librarians. I also hope it becomes a process that is commonly taught to kids. It's a great way to follow your curiosity and build something useful and meaningful from the research process.
Susan Daniels's curator insight,
April 17, 11:09 PM
This easy to understand infographic for teachers is full of great ideas for "curating for professional development". The beauty of this is the same techniques can be applied to many other professions as well.
The "information highway" is for a bazillion purposes that include professions with accredited degrees or self-taught professions learned through a lifetime of experience.
Truth be known, every time we "search" a topic online, we are aggregating information that we can then curate to meet our individual needs and wants.
Now that you are becoming more aware of the act of "aggregate 'n' curate" in our daily lives - how has curating entered into your life and career? What are some of the tools you use, from the most simplest to the highly complicated. What's your list of curation tools today?
Susan Daniels's comment,
May 9, 3:24 PM
Yes Dennis! I so agree. Without realizing it, most bloggers are aggregating and curating when they write their blog posts. No one is an island - all ideas come from something. :)
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scrible is launching a brand new Student Edition with new features and perks for any student with a ".edu" email address.
Dennis T OConnor's curator insight,
May 9, 2:17 PM
The power research features of this online social bookmarking system make me sit up and take notice:
Capture citations in a snap and create bibliographies with a
single click.
Compile your annotations from multiple articles into a simple summary or robust report.
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Sarah Rach-Sovich's curator insight,
May 7, 9:07 AM
Sometimes we forget, these still exist and contain a wealth of information!
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Sharilee Swaity's curator insight,
May 4, 8:54 PM
Awesome place for free photos to use for your articles!
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Europeana - Homepage
Europeana, Europe's digital library, museum and archive, belongs to the public and must represent the public interest.
The Public Domain is the material from which society derives knowledge and fashions new cultural works.
Having a healthy and thriving Public Domain is essential to the social and economic well-being of society.
Digitisation of Public Domain content does not create new rights over it: works that are in the Public Domain in analogue form continue to be in the Public Domain once they have been digitised.
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A consortium of European Museums and European Cultural data, housed in a multilinqual database. Content in the public domain. Lots of primary sources!
Christine Sharbrough's curator insight,
May 5, 6:00 AM
Digital Public Library of America is hoping to partner with them. Bears watching Since DPLA is partnering with United States hubs including Digital Commonwealth in Massachusetts. Could mean some international exposure for small repositories.
Christine Bushong's curator insight,
May 7, 8:04 AM
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A consortium of European Museums and European Cultural data, housed in a multilinqual database. Content in the public domain. Lots of primary sources!
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We're excited to announce our newest addition to Search: Google Nose. What do wet dogs smell like? Google Nose! How about victory? Google Nose! Try searching...
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Another amazing breakthrough from Google. What does the inside of an Egyptian Tomb Smell like? Google Nose!
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Nice to have an on demand tutorial for Google Image Search. There are a lot of poweful aspects to the system. Check out the Creative Commons filters!
Mary Clark's curator insight,
April 4, 3:04 PM
My students needed help finding images without copyright restrictions.
Christine Bushong's curator insight,
May 1, 10:43 AM
Learn how to use Google's Image Search to find images with different usage restrictions. Images require citation of your source, too, just like text.
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Renew your Teaching License!
UW-Stout Great Online
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Dennis T OConnor's curator insight,
April 25, 7:56 PM
I've been working the University of Wisconsin Stout Online Professional Development program for nearly 10 years. We have 34 finely crafted online classes for teachers. Our courses are taught by experienced classroom teachers who are also master online teachers. Take a look at what we have to offer for Summer 2013.
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