edna.edu.au

Libraries workshop

Handout
Click here to open electronic form of Web 2.0 in libraries handout. This will make it easier to follow links.

Presentation file
Click here to open Web 2.0 in libraries presentation. Save to your USB if you like.

Link to me.edu.au presentation

Participants gave a commitment to what they are going to do from this workshop

• Get Moodle back in our school - get in touch with Yvonne Murtagh
  
• Put the subject I teach onto Moodle and share the experience
• Organise a Moodle workshop
• Start a LLP Moodle and everyone use it
  
• Check out 2 minute moodles videos from Tomaz Lasic
  
• Join Moodle community
  
• Add twitter link on resources page, and promote its use as a search tool
• 1 minute video to expain each Web 2.0 resource
• Experiment with each web 2.0 resource

Tags: information literacy moode libraries web2tools
Posted at 02:58PM Aug 27, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[1]

Initiation

Stage 1 of the Information Search Process is Initiation.

What is the topic?

What do I already know about the topic?

Complete a brainstorm, chart or picture of what you know already.

bubbl.us
bubbl.us is a free online brainstorm tool. Login if you want to save your brainstorm.
You can embed this as an image in your blog or in a wiki and thus share it with others.

Tags: information literacy libraries ipshaa tl guided inquiry
Posted at 11:52PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Selection

Stage 2 of the Information Search Process is Selection.

• find some resources on the topic
• build background knowledge about the topic
• develop questions to guide further research
• scan reference collection and online sources
  

Wikipedia
Check references and external links

Wikipedia for schools
Hand-checked selection from Wikipedia, targeted at UK curriculum has about 5500 articles.
Search google: [term] site:schools-wikipedia.org

Tags: libraries guided inquiry ipshaa tl information literacy
Posted at 11:49PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Finding Free Stuff

This is a list of favourite starter resources for the Finding Free Stuff hands-on workshop

National Library Australia Prototype
Explore Australian library collections and worldwide online sources through prototype service. Bookmark a url for bibliographic records and include library location in comment

edna curriculum resources
Use the edna curriculum search to find learning resources across the national key learning areas. Not all resources have open licences

Scootle (The Le@rning Federation)
Digital content for Australian schools K-10 including curriculum related learning objects and images. TLF licensed resources are free for Australian schools but may only be republished within the school. Login required. Check

flickrCC
Search easily for photos on flickr that are released under the Creative Commons license. Built in editing options and attribution

Wikimedia Commons
Freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media

Open Education Resources (OER)
OER are digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.
Check the Smartcopying website for further details

Handout for this workshop [313K Word doc]

Tags: information literacy oer resources ipshaa tl search
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Exploration

Stage 3 of the Information Search Process is Exploration.

This is where time is spent in gathering more information about the topic to further build background knowledge. This involves catalogue searching and use of search engines.

Finding an easy way to bookmark and tag interesting and relevant resources is helpful. Investigate social bookmarking services such as delicious, diigo or twine and how they can be used. For this workshop we will use social bookmarking in me.edu.au. 

Tags
Tags should be single words or very short phrases.
Check whether spaces are permitted in your social bookmarking service. If not, use under_scores to connect words, or WikiCase.

me.edu.au social bookmarking
Log in to your me.edu.au profile and keep it open in a separate window or tab as you search. When you find a relevant resource, copy the url and paste it into your share links box. Add tags and a title/description about why you chose it.

me.edu.au uses commas to separate tags so spaces are OK, but still not ideal as spaces can break urls.

Tags: guided inquiry information literacy tagging iphsaa tl libraries social bookmarking
Posted at 11:31PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Formulation

Stage 4 of the Information Search Process is Formulation.

Decide on the specific area of the topic to focus on and research it further.

Formulating essential questions is one of the hardest parts of the process. Is this worth researching? Asking the 'So What' question, and being convinced time spent on this focus issue is worthwhile will help.

[This is a placeholder: The subject of a future workshop]

Tags: information literacy ipshaa tl libraries guided inquiry
Posted at 11:19PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Collection

Stage 5 of the Information Search Process is Collection.

Now is the time to record my new knowledge in an appropriate format.

In terms of professional learning, I find creating a blog post works well as a way to outline my new knowledge. It is an easy way to include links to references and to ensure I give attribution as appropriate.

Even if the final format of the inquiry is a presentation slideshow or conference paper, I will probably post it here so I keep lots of my learning in one place, and in some kind of chronological order. It lets me tag the learning, and to share it with my professional learning community.

Tags: information literacy guided inquiry ipshaa tl libraries
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Presentation

Stage 6 of the Information Search Process is Presentation.

Here the purpose is to share new knowledge with an audience.

Deciding which presentation format is most appropriate or best for the task will depend on the audience, the learning, the context and the type of feedback required.

If the presentation is in digital format then it has a much bigger potential audience. Posting audio, video, slides, photographs or online, or using a blog to post the presentation means peers can be invited to view the presentation and leave comments.

Tags: guided inquiry information literacy ipshaa tl libraries
Posted at 10:18PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Assessment

Stage 7 of the Information Search Process is Assessment

If this was a formal learning activity, there would presumably be a rubric or assessment criteria. For professional learning activities it might be useful to: 

• think about what skills and knowledge I have learnt
• consider which part of the research was easy
• consider what I could improve
• write a blog post reflecting on the process and the learning
• if the presentation of learning is in a blog, comment later on that blog post, particularly if other people have commented

BTW: I noticed while preparing this workshop that Carol Kuhlthau's Information Search Process was usually described as a "six stage process". So why did I have Stage 7: Assessment?

Assessment appears in the Syba Signs posters for Guided Inquiry, and in the 2008 diagram I have linked to from Carol's Rutgers website. I checked this with Ross Todd and I like his idea of formative / summative assessment at each stage.

Tags: information literacy assessment ipshaa tl
Posted at 10:07PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]