Communication Teacher is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. Communication Teacher publishes original scholarship that considers the practice and assessment of the teaching of communication across K-2, university/college, and other educational contexts. Includes activities that can be implemented in any communication course, across single classes or units.
Interactive lesson planning tool for identifying the skills and competencies necessary for reading, writing and participating on the web. While it includes basic information evaluation, it goes a lot further to examine the unique aspects of information on the web (e.g. remixing, coding, web design, accessibility, open licensing, etc). There are also a lot of associated lessons that you can use. Many are oriented towards K-12, but the lessons can be remixed and are certainly relevant to higher ed.
The web is a unique terrain, substantially different from print materials. Yet, too often attempts at teaching information literacy for the web do not take into account both the web’s unique challenges and its unique affordances. This book is a practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.
The ETD+ Toolkit is an approach to improving student and faculty research output management. Focusing on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student’s research trajectory, it provides in-time advice to students and faculty about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the ETD and all of its affiliated files. Free training resources on crucial data curation and digital longevity techniques are included across 6 modules.
Author Carpentry is a researcher-to-researcher training and outreach program in open authoring and publishing. It was initiated at the Caltech Library to enhance scientific authorship and publishing in the digital age. The aim of Author Carpentry is to promote and support good information handling tools, practices, and skills that help researchers prepare, submit, and publish contributions that add value to the scholarly record and invite others to adapt and build upon.
Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.
The BEN Portal provides access to education resources from BEN Collaborators and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Over 20,601 reviewed resources covering 77 biological sciences topics are available. BEN resources can help you engage student interest, shorten lesson preparation time, provide concept updates, and develop curricula that are in line with national standards for content, use of animals and humans, and student safety.
The Teaching Tools section of the journal Cultural Anthropology provides resources and reflections on how to teach, including lesson plans, in-class activities, media tips, and pedagogical tools.
A place to discover ways to use the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in instructional settings, as well as share your own activities and teaching resources related to the Framework. Resources include activities, assessment, assignments, bibliographies, blog posts, learning objects, and practitioner reflections. Results can be filtered by discipline, information literacy frame, institution type, license, and scope.
Blog with activities and assignments from the Oregon State University Libraries' Effective Research Assignments workshop. Categories include Audience, Topic Selection, Exploration, and Critical Reading & Evaluation.
Collection includes assignments, class activities, and syllabi.
Quarterly newsletter from the Education Directorate with a section on teaching activities.
More than 50 classroom-ready exercises to teach ACRL's "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education."
The Information Literacy Assignment Bank is designed to support collaboration between librarians and faculty at College of the Holy Cross by providing a framework and a repository of concrete, but flexible, examples of the ways that information literacy and librarians can be integrated into the academic curriculum. The Assignment Bank project was initiated in Spring 2016 by the Libraries’ Teaching & Learning Team.
Offers a diverse range of free K-12 classroom resources intended to complement teaching and encourage lifelong learning. Includes materials on interactive games, lesson plans, puzzles, videos, and contests.
This title is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lessons.
ABLConnect is an online database of active learning efforts in post-secondary classrooms. It caters to faculty, graduate student teaching assistants, post-doctoral students and anybody else teaching undergraduate, graduate, or professional students across every discipline. The site provides activities, lessons, and projects along with downloadable materials in a searchable online format. It also has video tutorials, interviews with instructors, links to valuable technology resources, and academic research summaries to back up various active learning approaches.
The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
