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Library Instruction for First Year Seminar Courses
Need some ideas in order to help fulfill the information literacy foundational skill (find, evaluate, and use credible information)? Here are a few options (any of which can be adapted to fit your assignment).
Searching for Secondary Sources 101:
Understand how to find, evaluate, and use secondary sources such as websites, news articles, popular magazines, academic articles, etc.
Popular Sources vs. Scholarly Sources:
Learn to find, identify, and compare/contrast popular sources with scholarly sources.
Searching/Evaluating Web-Based and Other Popular Sources:
Learn how to find, evaluate, and use web-based and other popular sources (webpages, social media, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc.).
Searching for Primary Sources 101:
Understand how to find, evaluate, and use primary sources (original documents providing first-hand evidence) such as letters, journals, diaries, etc.
How to Read, Understand, and Use Scholarly Research:
Learn how academic articles/research are structured and how to read and make sense of them, as well as how to use and incorporate into your own research.
Create a Presentation, Video, Podcast, or Infographic 101:
Learn how to create and share presentations, videos, podcasts, infographics, or other non-essay formats using the best practices for each medium.
NOT PLANNING A TRADITIONAL ASSIGNMENT? WE CAN HELP WITH THAT TOO.
Here are a few examples:
Zines
Goal: Provide first year students experience incorporating a variety of shorter pieces such as journal entries, short article write-ups, and reflections on key issues along with appropriate visual content into a unified digital or print based final product.
IL Learning objectives: Information creation is a process. Information has value. Scholarship as conversation. Finding, evaluating, and synthesizing text and visual information. Information can be presented in a variety of formats.
From: Montenegro, Erika and Mari Orozco, Cynthia. “DIY the FYE with Zines”
Wikipedia Editing Assignment
Goal: Provide first year students experience contributing and updating an existing Wikipedia page building on and adding to the collective knowledge of the encyclopedia.
IL Learning Objectives: Information has value. Authority is constructed and contextual. Scholarship as conversation. Finding, evaluating, and synthesizing text. Ethics and responsibility in presenting information.
From: McNiff, Lindsay. “Bite-Sized Wikipedia Editing Assignment”
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