The assignment was created by Librarian Paizha Stoothoff in collaboration with a Professor teaching Literary Los Angeles. In lieu of a physical tour, students worked on a 3-week project to create digital maps (see assignment attached for details about what maps included).
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Posted on March 11, 2021
Author: Paizha Stoothoff
Posted on March 11, 2021
Author: Paizha Stoothoff
This assignment was created in lieu of a physical tour of Literary Los Angeles (for a Literary L.A. course). Students worked on a 3-week project to create digital maps (see assignment attached for details about what maps included). The library workshop occured in week 1, after students formed groups and shared to a discussion post in Canvas what author/region/text they would focus on. The Liaison Librarian and Archivist led the library session.
Posted on February 17, 2021
Author: Paizha Stoothoff
Digital timelines enable us to tell stories visually by connecting non-linear moments: events, reactions, and experiences. This assignment includes a lesson plan and worksheet for teaching with timelines. Timelines work best when they are created as a project for a course, since they take time to develop.
Discipline: English, History, Library and Information Science, Multidisciplinary
Posted on February 15, 2021
Author: Jennifer Masunaga
Collaborators: Paizha Stoothoff
This is a lateral reading 75 minute long lesson plan and worksheet assignment that introduces online source evaluation to undergraduate students, preferably first years. Lateral reading involves researching the content of a source as one reads it and this technique is popular with online fact checkers and journalists. The lesson plan calls for instructors to demonstrate lateral reading live (or via recording if asynchronous) using resources found on Google.
Discipline: Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing
Information Literacy Concepts: Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1)
Posted on February 8, 2021
Author: Kelleen Maluski
This is session 1 of 3 sessions that I do for Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine in Pharmacy. For this session I had about an hour so the majority of the session is group work. Included are the materials to build the activity, an overview of the lesson (since so much was group work, I wouldn't call it a lesson plan), and the rubric for assessing /grading the activity. This was designed for Zoom/online synchronous teaching. A guide was created to assist with the work in the class (with links to all class activities) and be a place for students to refer back to later.
Discipline: Health
Information Literacy Concepts: Defines Information Need (ACRL 1, SCONUL 1&2, ANZIL 1), Research as Inquiry (Frame 4)
Posted on December 10, 2020
Author: Keely Kiczenski
This lesson is intended as a one hour, single-session overview of one aspect of information literacy: evaluating the trustworthiness of resources, particularly online. The lesson is designed for a group of 10-25 adults in a public or academic library, or is also suitable for high school students. Instructor will teach students how to investigate a source and apply three small but powerful information literacy tools to evaluation: SIFT, PIE, and SMELL.
Discipline: Communication Studies, Library and Information Science
Information Literacy Concepts: Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5), Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Information Has Value (Frame 3)
Posted on October 22, 2020
Author: Justin de la Cruz
Background information, assignment, and reflection on analyzing popular information.
Discipline: Library and Information Science
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)
Posted on October 22, 2020
Author: Justin de la Cruz
Background information, assignment, and reflection on analyzing information received from the news.
Discipline: Library and Information Science
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)
Posted on October 21, 2020
Author: Kelleen Maluski
This video was put together to offer health sciences students a brief introduction to critically thinking about their resources in order to evaluate how appropriate they are for use in their work. It was important that the learners understand the complexities of using specific resources and why it is important to always critically evaluate materials. This includes a discussion of critiques of gatekeeping surrounding peer review, how damaging and discriminatory research can still get published, and how to ask crucial questions to subvert dominant narratives.
Discipline: Health, Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7), Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1)
Posted on October 16, 2020
Author: Alexandria Chisholm
Collaborators: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future. The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to e
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Information Has Value (Frame 3)