Website originally designed to help graduate Teaching Assistants incorporate information literacy instruction into their curricula and assignments. Includes detailed exercises, as well as slide shows, handouts, syllabi for credit information literacy courses, both for Teaching Assistants and for librarians. All materials freely available for viewing and downloading, under a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
Blogs make it easy for anyone to publish information on the web. But did you know that you could get into trouble with the law or cause upset amongst people around you for what you publish? This is something that some bloggers have come to realise. But don't worry, learn the 7 habits of responsible blogging and you will be able to stay on the right side of the law. Find out what the 7 habits are through this course.
With rising life expectancy, you will likely enjoy more years of retirement. While this is an exciting prospect for many, it is important to prepare for the challenges that may come with more retirementyears. A bit of planning today can ensure that you enjoy a productive and fulfilling retirement.
Job opportunities exist even in economic downturns. The better you know yourself and the job you want, the better and more efficient your job hunt can be. A systematic methodology ensures you are well-prepared and confident to take on and complete the job-seeking journey.
Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask - which search engines to use? Getting too many irrelevant webpages? Taking too long to find what you want from the Internet? If your answer is yes to any one of these questions, you will find this course useful. Learn the 'art' of advanced Internet searching and reap the benefits of this lifelong skill forever. This course teaches you tips and short-cuts of how to search the Internet more effectively by zooming in on your search strategy and the right search techniques. So whether you are a student, homemaker, businessman or working adult, this course is suitable for you.
This course is about using storytelling techniques to better engage your child when it comes to introducing them to early literacy skills, stroking their imagination or just extending their learning. The course is filled with short videos on storytelling techniques and even shares a collection of 100 plus storybook titles, all categorised for easy selection. You will also get a set of tools and checklist that you can download and use. This course is designed to bring out the storyteller in you!
Any loving parent would want to equip his or her child with a basic life skill – reading. Starting the reading habit early helps a child have a more imaginative mind, better memory and greater confidence in society. This course will introduce you to the systematic reading process and storybook titles you need to help your child progress through the reading levels and stages. You will also get a set of tools and checklists that you can download and use. This course is designed to bring out the excellent reader in your child!
What is Information Literacy? How is it relevant for schools and educators? Find the answers to these questions in this course developed specially to help educators demystify Information Literacy and impart this essential skill to their students. Information Literacy enables the students to be savvy information seekers, critical thinkers, ethical users of information and independent learners. In this knowledge-based economy, these are important attributes we would like to see in our younger generation.
Web 2.0? 新媒体？社交网络工具？你听说过这些流行语吗？现今，互联网正日益成为出版部落格、播客、视频播客和维客的媒介。 通过学习本课程，学员将更为熟悉不同种类的新媒体工具及其特点。课程也涵盖了找寻新媒体资源的方法和评估它们的种方式。
Have you heard these buzzwords: Web 2.0? New Media? Social Networking Tools? Today, the Internet is increasingly being used as a publishing medium for blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and wikis. In this course learners will familiarise themselves with the different forms of New Media tools and their characteristics. Finding New Media resources and the different approaches to evaulating them are also covered.
Facilitar los conocimientos y la adquisición de determinadas habilidades y actitudes que permitan, como facilitadores de servicios de información y formación, la organización y desarrollo de programas de Alfabetización Informacional y de Servicios de Información Digital acordes a los adelantos más significativos en el contexto de las bibliotecas universitarias a nivel nacional e internacional
Overview of a hospital library health literacy outreach program
Plate-forme d'échange de pratiques et de documents pour l'enseignement de Méthodologie du travail universitaire en premier cycle des universités. Elle présente non des modèles mais une variété de démarches, illustrées par des exemples de séquences réellement réalisées en cours, sans prétention exhaustive ni caractère normatif, destinées à enrichir la pratique quotidienne de chacun.
Mnémosyne est un hypermédia qui remplit 3 fonctions: faire découvrir ce qu'est la mémoire d'un point de vue théorique, donner les moyens à l'apprenant d'analyser à partir des connaissances acquises, son mode de fonctionnement, proposer des alternatives pour améliorer la mémorisation et optimiser de ce fait l'apprentissage en général. Pour remplir ces objectifs Mnémosyne est composé de deux parties: l'une théorique: axée sur des apports théoriques liés à la mémoire même si l'expérimentation est présente, l'autre pratique: axée sur la pratique même s'il y a des apports théoriques qui sont en fait orientés sur le concret dans un exposé davantage technique.
Met l'accent sur la méthode et le savoir-faire pour une recherche documentaire. Veut donner un aperçu global de ce que doit être une recherche documentaire et montrer la complémentarité existant entre les différents outils. Contient six modules divisés chacun en séquences, aux contenus informatifs ou démonstratifs ou interactifs.
Sommaire : Etapes de la recherche d'information ; lieux documentaires ; documents ; outils de référence ; principes de base de la recherche ; outils de recherche bibliographique ; outils d'Internet ; évaluation de l'information ; traitement de l'information ; citer les documents ; internet : aspects critiques ; lexique.
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The survey is divided into two sections. The first one explores the characteristics of your organisation that impact on the training you provide and the profile of your users. The second section focuses on your professional profile. The data gathered by this survey will inform the customisation of the FILE course in order to help you identify and address your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) needs.
FILE aims to equip participants with the competences and the confidence required to produce a portfolio of learning resources that fosters effective use of information by specific groups of users. This course is commissioned by London Health Libraries as part of the Learner Support Programme (LSP) and accredited by London Metropolitan University as a 20 credit postgraduate module.
La función educativa de todas las instituciones y unidades de información exige adquirir conocimientos que ayuden a los profesionales de la información a enseñar a los usuarios el proceso de buscar, seleccionar, obtener, analizar y reelaborar la información, competencia que expresa bajo la expresión �??alfabetización informacional�??.