Building the Information Literate School Community

Vancouver School District, September 2007

Introduction

Welcome to the ....

Information Literacy Strategies

• 3M is a strategy for  teaching keyword search.  It was designed by Bernie Dodge (of webquest fame) and brought to our attention by Keith McPherson of LLERC at UBC
  • 3M Search Strategy  3M for wiki.doc 
• Research Style Guide (PPT) presented by M. Farquharson May 2007  Research Style Guide.ppt 

Links to information about the evaluation of websites

How to evaluate information - from "Virtualchase.com"

http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/checklist_print.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - good list of "false" websites at the bottom of this page.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Tolerance.org - lessons on tolerance

http://www.tolerance.org

Another Guide with evaluation forms for both elementary and secondary

http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html

The 2Learn.ca Education Society Alliance

http://www.2learn.ca/evaluating/evaluating.html

Look up who owns a domain - This is one of many such search tools.

http://www.betterwhois.com/

What's happening with IL in Canada?

Information Literacy:  Val Hamilton maintains this page on the BCTLA PSA Website

PEI

ACCESSOLA

Information Literacy Skills: Kindergarten - Grade 12:  This substantial document won The Canadian Association for School Libraries' (CASL) Angela Thacker Memorial Award.  Information literacy is the foundation of lifelong learning.  This continuum was created to ensure that the students of this Manitoba school division acquire the skills necessary for lifelong learning and that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.

What's Happening with IL in Australia?

What's Happening with IL Elsewhere?

Readings

Henri, James and Karen Bonanno, Eds.  The Information Literate School Community: Best Practice.  WaggaWagga, NSW: Charles Sturt University, 1999.

Henri, James and Marlene Asselin, Eds.  The Information Literate School Community 2: Issues of Leadership.  WaggaWagga, NSW: Charles Sturt University, 2005.