Article on infolit and Blackboard

There's an article in the latest issue of Journal of Academic Librarianship entitled
'Integrating Information Literacy into Blackboard: Building Campus Partnerships for Successful Student Learning'
See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00991333 - article 5.

Christine

Just had a quick look at Phil's blog and found a link to this interesting article on the BBC about FaceBook and how it is being used by students and the reactions of Universities etc:

Facing up to Facebook


Caro.

Here are some interesting Web 2.0 resources for people to play with from Phil Bradley’s course:

Pageflakes: This allows you to create your own homepage. Use the flakes to add RSS feeds, e-mail, to do lists, calendars, bookmarks etc

Bloglines: If you want a simple RSS reader Phil recommends this tool, use it to add feeds from sites such as the BBC or to rerun internet searches on tools such as Google.

CustomSignGenerator: This is the site that I’ve been using to find possible images for our tip of the week marketing campaign.

Del.icio.us: Share bookmarks either from person to person or just from machine to machine.

Literature Map: If you liked a book by one author see what else this site thinks you might like (not sure I agree with all the answers).

Slide Share: Store Powerpoint Presentations on the web for easy access and the ability to share with others.

For more info about these and others resources try Phils website and blog or take a look at the documentation in the black boxes in the FSL’s office.

Caro.

Article on teaching with Blackboard

There is a new journal out called 'Communications in Information Literacy' available at http://www.comminfolit.org/

In this, its first issue, there is an article about the use of Blackboard in teaching sessions:
DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ INFORMATION AND RESEARCH SKILLS VIA BLACKBOARD at http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/article/view/Spring2007AR2/12

As always there seems to be a lot more support at the institutional level as they incorportaed a summative assignment into the process, but there may still be something we can take from this.

LKJ

Hi All,

Further to Christine's message, Moira's blog contains a link to the following article on interactive teaching techniques that's really interesting and gives some practical examples of quizzes etc that we might want to try. I quite like the Boolean crossword!

Games for teaching information literacy skills

Another fun tool I've come across recently at LILAC is Library Bingo (Andy Jackson, University of Dundee). This works by asking students to write down a list of say 5 things that they would expect to find in the Library. We then start to bring up a list of resources, starting with some of the more obscure, until some one shouts "house!". As well as giving us the opportunity to advertise the range of resources available, by asking at the end if anyone has anything we haven't mentioned, it also provides a way of monitoring user expectations. I'm hoping to try this out with foundation students during next years induction.

Caro.

Information Literacy - making a difference

Hi folks
I attended this event in Newcastle on Monday 2 April. It was organised by Moira Bent as part of her NTF project. The morning was taken up by a workshop presented by Christine Bruce (Queensland University of Techology) on her 'Six frames for Information Literacy' and there were 3 speakers in the afternoon. Have a look at Moira's blog - http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/moira.bent - for her short write-up. I'll be putting the documents in the black files shortly.
Christine

When I attended the Teaching Information Skills workshop in February run by the Higher Education Academy, I received a booklet which is called "Celebrating excellence - six years of the NTFS" (National Teaching Fellowship Scheme). I've put it in the black box as it's interesting to read the kind of work people are doing for the NTFS. SK