Information Literacy Guide (Literacy Guide for College Students)

Literacy Guide

For College Students

Information Literacy Definitions

ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency

ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/visualliteracy

Information Literacy Glossaries

Information Literacy Glossary

http://www.farmingdale.edu/library/information-literacy/info-literacy-glossary.shtml

Information Literacy Skills List

List of Skills for Information Literacy

http://windward.hawaii.edu/CIL/Information_Literacy/Skills.php

Information Literacy Tools

Information Literacy Building Blocks of Research: Overview of Design, Process and Outcomes

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/1over/infolit1.html

Information Literacy: Gathering, Analyzing, Evaluating Information: Web 2.0 Teaching Tools

http://www.web2teachingtools.com/information-literacy.html

Recommended Search Strategy: Analyze your topic & Search with peripheral vision

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html

Information Literacy Explorer (tools)

http://infotutor.sdsu.edu/ILexplorer/ILexplorer.html

Information Citation Tools

APA Guide (OWL at Purdue)

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

MLA Guide (OWL at Purdue)

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

NoodleTools Express (MLA/APA/Chicago citation generator tools)

http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/express.php

Meta Literacy Tools

Metaliteracy MOOC

http://metaliteracy.cdlprojects.com/what.htm

Metaliteracy Learning Objectives

http://metaliteracy.org/learning-objectives/

Digital and Media Literacy Tools

Media Literacy Tools

http://mediactive.com/resources/tools/

Media Smarts (Digital and Media Literacy)

http://mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-literacy

Making sense of the 8 Elements of Digital Literacy

https://digilitpride.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/making-sense-of-the-8-elements-of-digital-literacy/

Digital literacy across the curriculum: a Futurelab handbook

http://www2.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf

Knowledge management tool (Diigo)

https://www.diigo.com/

Notetaking (Evernote) digitally to reduce boredom

https://evernote.com/

Google Docs (for collaboration with other students)

https://www.google.com/docs/about/

Mindmeister concept mapping (for creating and testing a project outline)

https://www.mindmeister.com/

Twitter for research and finding links to web sites (from professionals and academics)

https://twitter.com/

YouTube (for tutorials, background information, lectures, and more)

https://www.youtube.com/

Stormboard (for student-group brainstorming)

https://stormboard.com/

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course list)

https://www.mooc-list.com/

Khan Academy (free video libraries for learning and assessment)

https://www.khanacademy.org/

TED (talks on ideas)

https://www.ted.com/

Screencastomatic (screen casting tool to create a screencast -- very inexpensive)

http://screencast-o-matic.com/

Invisible Web Tools

Invisible or Deep Web: What it is, How to find it, and its inherent ambiguity

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

Scholarly Literature Tools

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

http://doaj.org/

Google Books (not all books are scholarly here)

https://books.google.com/

Project Gutenberg (free ebooks)

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Great Books Online

Bartlby.com (free classic works)