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Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: An Active-Learning Exercise for Studio Art Students

This article describes an active-learning exercise intended to help teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licenses. In the exercise students use a worksheet to draw original pictures, create derivative pictures on tracing paper, select Creative Commons licenses, and explore commercial usage, fair use, and copyright infringement. Librarian-instructors may find the completed worksheets to be useful aids to supplement copyright lectures; student perspectives will be integral because they are generating the examples used in discussion.

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Project TRAILS (Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy)

TRAILS, developed by Kent State Univ.,  measures IL skills related to standards for 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grades.

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Beile Test of Information Literacy for Education (B-TILED)

The B-TILED is a test of information literacy for Education students in postsecondary institutions. Includes 22 multiple-choice items and 13 demographic and self-perception questions.

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The Information Literacy Test (ILT)

Standardized 1-hour IL test based on ACRL's IL Standards for Higher Education. Internet-based and includes 60 multiple-choice questions. The test demonstrated both reliability andvalidity.

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Streamlining LIS Research: A Compendium of Tried and True Tests, Measurements, and Other Instruments

This book by Amy J. Catalano houses the leading library research instruments in use for the past 15 years, providing one-page evaluations to help expedite your research validation.

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Four Moves: Adventures in Fact-Checking for Students

The Four Moves blog is maintained by Mike Caulfield, who has been helping teachers integrate digital citizenship skills into the classroom for over 10 years.

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ArcGIS StoryMaps

This is an introduction to the classic version of ArcGIS StoryMaps. It provides a walkthrough of the website functions and has tasks listed for students to build their first story map.

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Journal Prestige

This lesson on journal prestige could be taught by itself, as part of a series on scholarly communication, or as a small part of a larger lesson on information prestige.

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Researching a Controversy

This is an activity to get students to think critically about the sources and information presented in a Wikipedia article.

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Education Northwest

Education Northwest provides high-quality research, technical assistance, professional development, and evaluation services that address the most pressing education and youth-services needs in their region and across the country.

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