Information Literacy

Week 6, September 28, 29, 30, is "Information Literacy" week in KING 2000.

We will meet our classes in the library, where Jenny Horton has arranged for a librarian to go over basic skills with the students.

Before class your students need to complete the information literacy survey on Bb. They need to do this by September 28. This survey is a zip file, just like a quiz. I will email it to you, and you will upload it exactly as you do a quiz.

In class you will give them the assignment sheet for the project. I will email the assignment sheet and post it on our Mentors' Blackboard site as well.

I suggest that by Friday of this week you send them an email telling them that they need to do the survey and also letting them know what the topics are for the team project. Each student should think about the list of topics and know what two or three they are interested in. You need to get the students into no more than 4 teams (there is only enough time for 4 teams to present on presentation day, which is November 18). I will also draft an email message that you can use or not use.

Perhaps at the beginning of the library session you can have them turn in to you their list of three. By the time the librarian is ready for them to begin their research, you can have the list of teams ready.

Our goal is graphically depicted by this cartoon (found on the North Myrtle Beach High School Website):