I recently presented a lightning talk on CORA at the California Conference on Library Instruction (CCLI) at the University of San Francisco.
Last week, I presented a poster about CORA at the ACRL 2017 conference in Baltimore. Thanks to all the librarians who stopped by to say hello!
Students will be exposed to various entry points of a sustainability topic in various formats. They will take notes as they experience those expressions on the Elements of Thought evidenced throughout. This in-class, two-part lesson includes an independent guided activity and a Think-Pair-Share activity for further reflection on source/ claimant evaluation. Prior to this lesson, instructor will have chosen a topic relevant to their subject area or course content – Possible examples: food deserts, clean water in US, bee colony collapse.
We recently added 20 new resources to the Teaching Toolkit section of CORA! In need of new information literacy activity ideas this semester?
This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century.
This book is intended to help widen and deepen the conversations between librarians and compositionists. How can we further build and strengthen teaching partnerships that invite students to engage in writing and information seeking and use as processes of inquiry, critical reflection, and meaning making? And what sometimes stands in the way of doing so? Written for both librarians and writing instructors, this publication considers these questions from multiple angles, including an explorations of:
Two dozen teachers, librarians, administrators, and writing center professionals share their expertise and insights on successfully utilizing the frameworks for writing and information literacy.
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.
Rewired: Research-Writing Partnerships within the Frameworks highlights the clear connections between two important disciplinary documents—the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (CWPA, NCTE, and NWP, 2011) and the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (ACRL, 2016)—and examines partnerships between librarians and their colleagues who are teaching information literacy in new and impactful ways.
More than 50 classroom-ready exercises to teach ACRL's "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education."
I presented on CORA at the 2016 Library Assessment Conference in Arlington, VA. Recurring themes at the conference included
"Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication" presents concepts, experiments, collaborations, and strategies at the crossroads of the fields of scholarly communication and information literacy. The seventeen essays and interviews in this volume engage ideas and describe vital partnerships that enrich both information literacy and scholarly communication programs within institutions of higher education.
The Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL) is a new multiple-choice test based on the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The test is still in beta, with four modules currently being field tested.
Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think About Information explores how librarians and faculty work together to teach students about the nature of expertise, authority, and credibility. It provides practical approaches for motivating students to explore their beliefs, biases, and ways of interpreting the world. Examines how academic libraries assess liaison activities and offers recommendations for documenting the impact of programs and services.
A two-credit online graduate information literacy course.
Donna Witek blogs about libraries, teaching, technology, academia, home life, working motherhood, gentle parenting, school, and how all these things relate to one another.
A blog about philosophy and librarianship written by Lane Wilkinson.
The Information Literacy Assessment & Advocacy Project (ILAAP) is an assessment tool designed to investigate the information literacy skills of first and second-year post-secondary students.
Resources related to the ACRL Information Literacy Framework, including readings and webcasts.
