From the University of Toronto Libraries Newsletter (Fall 2010):To be successful academically, students must develop their information literacy: the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information effectively and ethically. This requires making the transition from researching on the Internet to researching in one of North America’s foremost research libraries. It is just one of several [...]

At #web2untangled, held in Oxford yesterday, Professor Philippa Levy and I gave a presentation: Starting as we mean to go on: Technology-rich Inquiry Based Learning in the first undergraduate year. The first part talks about what Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) is, the second part is an example of the IBL approach in our first year [...]

Brain School: Stories of Children with Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives By Improving Their Cognitive Functioning Author: Howard Eaton ISBN: 978-0986749407 Overview: In Brain School, Howard Eaton explores how, applying the principles of neuroplasticitiy, Barbara Arrowsmith Young developed cognitive remediation exercises, founded the Arrowsmith Program and opened the first Arrowsmith School [...]

Brain School: Stories of Children with Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives By Improving Their Cognitive Functioning Author: Howard Eaton ISBN: 978-0986749407 Overview: In Brain School, Howard Eaton explores how, applying the principles of neuroplasticitiy, Barbara Arrowsmith Young developed cognitive remediation exercises, founded the Arrowsmith Program and opened the first Arrowsmith School [...]

ED announced grants to higher education institutions that serve Asian American and Pacific Islander students. More: continued here

A Biblioteca 2.0 oportunidades e desafios para as bibliotecas do século XXI 18 de Novembro de 2010 Sala de Leitura da Biblioteca Pública de ÉvoraConvidado Olivier Le DeuffUniversidade Europeia da Bretanha blogue Le Guide des égarés Library 2.0 and the Culture of Information   resumo Our speech will be divided in two different parts. First, [...]

The information behaviour/ information literacy journal club continues in Second Life, the virtual world. All are welcome to participate (you need a SL avatar and the SL software on your computer). These are both one hour sessions, with a short introduction in voice, main discussion in text chat.November Journal club meetingWhen: Wednesday November 24th 12 [...]

This semester the information literacy course that I’m teaching started off in our main library classroom. It’s a fairly typical instructional space with rows of desks topped with computers, an instructor computer at the front, and a couple of projection screens. It’s a nice room – we got 30 new, faster student computers over the [...]

I’m often embarrassingly late to hear about things, and I think this is another example. Last Friday I went to a presentation by Boston Radical Reference Collective librarians held at sprout & co in Somerville, MA, sponsored by Artists in Context.I had no idea what to expect. I thought I had heard of Radical Reference [...]

A one-day event on 20 January 2011, held in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow , Scotland, is Information literacy: what’s in it for you? “Hear expert speakers discuss information literacy in the workplace, in education and in general and participate in specially arranged workshops to help you explore some of the key issues.” To book, go [...]