Information Literacy News from the 21st Century Information Fluency Project
(21CIF) at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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News for October 14, 2003:
1. IMSA 21CIF ****tal Adds New Guide: How to Create a 21CIF Program at Your
School
2. 21CIF Fall Conference Appearances
3. New ****tal Feature: Tip of the Week and Training Materials
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1. IMSA 21CIF ****tal Adds New Guide: How to Create a 21CIF Program at Your
School
This HOWTO guide has been written to address requests from teachers and
librarians who have wondered about how to put a program together for their
school to share their 21CIF skills and resources.
In the site you will see some recommended steps and specific examples of
well-established programs. There are examples of lesson plans, ideas, web
sites; other resources will continue to be added to in the future. Our
goal is to show a complete program with examples of the component
parts. Current program examples are provide by Dr. Elaine Buch, Addison
Trail High School, Chris Balsano, Downers Grove High School, and Jane
Sharka and Tom Bohdan, both of Naperville Central High School.
We know that every school and every situation is different and think of
these steps as an outline. Individual components may or may not apply to
your situation. We hope that this will give you a good start, a place to
see live examples and where you can ask questions of those who have
already
blazed this trail.
This new section may be found at http://wizard.imsa.edu/howto
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2. 21CIF Fall Conference Appearances
Members of the 21CIF team will be speaking and hosting booths at several
fall conferences and meetings. We hope that you will be able to pay us a
visit.
Lora K. Kaisler, Coordinator of Online Learning for the IMSA 21st Century
Information Fluency Program, will be presenting at the LearningTimes
Library Online Conference, scheduled October 20-24, 2003. Registration is
available at http://www.libraryconference.com/register.shtml.
Lora will be
facilitating a discussion on the "Obstacles to Learning to Evaluate
Resources in an Online Environment", research conducted over the past few
years. The community will open October 13th for preliminary reading of
discussion materials. This is an international conference sponsored by the
ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) among others.
Dr. David Barr, Director of Online Learning, will be speaking at the
Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) on Friday, November 7 in
Decatur, Illinois. David will be presenting a session on 21st Century
Information Fluency at 8:30. The 21CIF team will also be hosting a booth
in the vendor area on both Thursday and Friday. Please visit us during the
User Group Time on Friday November 7 from 4:15 to 5:15 in the Platinum
Room. Conference information is available at http://www.islma.org.
Dr. David Barr and 21CIF Project Coordinator Bob Houston will be giving a
presentation the following week at the Illinois Education and Technology
Conference (IETC) in Springfield, Illinois. They will be speaking Thursday
at 11:45 on "21st Century Information Skills." Members of the team will
also be staffing a booth in the vendor area on Wednesday night and all day
Thursday. Conference information is available at
http://www.il-edtech.org/conference/index.html.
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3. New ****tal Feature: Tip of the Week and Training Materials
Each Week IMSA will post a new tip related to 21st Century Information
Fluency. These Tips are accompanied by training materials that can be
downloaded in PDF format. The tips are available online at
http://wizard.imsa.edu/inform/totw.
Recent items include:
Tip #1: What is a Query?
Tip #2: Reliability of Information
Tip #3: Using Keywords Effectively
Tip #4: Search Engines
Tip #5: Ranking of Search Results
Tip #6: How Fast is the Web Growing?
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The 21st Century Information Fluency Project is funded by the US
Department
of Education and the State of Illinois. Information is available at
http://wizard.imsa.edu.
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G. Kolar
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Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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