The second Information: Interactions and Impact International (i3) Conference will take place at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland 22-25 June 2009. As before, the conference explores the interconnections between information literacy, information behaviour, and impact of information. Key note speakers in 2009 will include Dr. Chun Wei Choo (Faculty of Information, University of [...]
Nick Reynolds talks about corporate blogging at the BBC in this article for FUMSI. It could be a starting point for talking about confidentiality and ethical issues to do with blogging, or about blogging as public relations.Reynolds, N. (2008) Corporate blogging:how to be open. FUMSI, September. http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3199Photo by Sheila Webber: photoshopped tree, Western Park, Sheffield, [...]
Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary Conference for graduate students, April 3-5, 2009, at Ohio State University, USA. “Addressing the need for an expanded conversation about literacy that exceeds disciplinary boundaries, this conference is a space for graduate and professional students from all fields to ask questions, consider directions, examine representations, make connections, and [...]
Gives a concise account of the intellectual origins, history, and basic values of democratic systems of government. The book examines topics such as rights and responsibilities of citizens, free and fair elections, the rule of law, the role of a written constitution, separation of powers, a free media, the role of parties and interest groups, [...]
Visitors to the U.S. Department of Education’s “Doing What Works” Web site can find out the answers to these questions and much more. Enjoy an engaging and interactive experience with Psychology of Learning: How to Organize Your Teaching, the latest addition to the site, which will empower educators and administrators with research-based strategies to help [...]
Want to encourage your students to develop good information literacy skills? This novel idea is being tried by Indiana University. The article Digital Information Literacy Competition tests Internet literacy and cognitive agility has some details.It notes:”Undergraduate students will show off their reference and Internet literacy skills during the Digital Literacy Contest on Sept. 30 at [...]
Claudio Laferla has a report of an international information literacy conference held in Turkey. The report is titled Fifth UNESCO information literacy workshop held in Ankara. It looks like this was a nice event.Some highlights as noted in the report:The Workshop Programme was extensive and covered every aspect of IL: theoretical and practical, pedagogical and [...]
This article is not directly related to information literacy but I did find it of interest to reference work. The article is Students’ Perception of the Impact of User Education on the Use of Reference Resources: An Iranian Experience and it was written by Mahdi Mohammadi, Alireza Isfandyari Moghaddam, and Mehri Ezadi Yeganeh. The article [...]
Firstly, in Journal of Information Literacy (vol 2 no 1, 2008) all free at http://jil.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL- Badke, W. A Rationale for Information Literacy as a Credit-bearing Discipline- Crawford, J. Making new friends: an information literacy trip to Washington DC- Dotan, G. and Aharony, N. Information literacy roles of library media specialists in high schools: Israeli perspectives- [...]
Ireland’s Higher Education Authority funds the National Digital Learning Repository and on 5th September, it launched the Information Skills Community of Practice which will support the teaching of information literacy. The repository of learning objects will only be available to those in the Information Skills Community of Practice. More info at http://www.ndlr.ie/iscop/ (Source: Information Literacy [...]