These are the Information Literacy Things that all teachers and media specialists must complete. To reach your 23+1 Things, you choose from the optional Things. Click on the links for the details for each Thing. Remember, once you have done Things 1-3, you can do the Things in any order that works for you.
Thing 1. What Are You Talking About?
Understanding Information Literacy
- Begin the project by thinking about information literacy & what it means to you and your students.
- Check out the Standards we keep talking about and learn our vocabulary.
Thing 2. Create Your Blog & Post About It
- We want to know about your discoveries, your ideas, your thoughts on the project, and more.
- Weekly posts will do all this. And remember--at least one post a week will get your name in our monthly drawing for door prizes!
Thing 3. RSS & Newsreaders
- Keep up with your fellow MILI bloggers by setting up a Bloglines account.
- Add a feed to your blog.
Thing 4. Get to Know Your Public Library
- Public libraries are a wealth of information resources both in person and virtually. And they are there when you can't be. Take time to learn more.
- Introduce your students to the world of the public library. That library card really is a key to knowledge.
- Teacher Web pages offer a way to provide students with "one-stop shopping" about your curriculum, assignments, resources, and more. Your Web page is one more way to introduce information literacy and the 3Rs to your students.
- SPPS offers Urban Planet as an easy, template-based Web page builder. If you don't know how to use it, take a class or arrange for trainers to come to your building.
Thing 6. Use the Teacher Guide to the Research Project Calculator (RPC)
- This new feature of the RPC helps teachers easily integrate the steps of the research process.
- Take time to review the RPC steps and all the features of the Teacher Guide.
Thing 7. Get to Know the Research Project Calculator (RPC)
- Introduce the RPC to students to teach the research process and develop their information literacy skills.
Thing 8. Dribbling Lessons for Information Literacy
- These quick lessons can be dropped into any class to introduce information literacy skills. Browse the lessons by RPC step.
- Lots more available, too, including lessons by subject area and a bibliography for a more in-depth look at information literacy.
Thing 9. Streaming Video
- Use those projectors by finding and using streaming video in your classroom.
Thing 10. Copyright & Plagiarism
- Responsible Use addresses the issues of copyright, proper citation of resources, discussions of plagiarism, and more.
Thing 11. All About Google
- There's more to Google than "Googling." Take time to explore the features of Google.
- Google reaches out to teachers and librarians with newsletters and more. Check it out!
- And there are search engines beyond Google. Take a look at various search engines, including metasearch engines that search multiple engines simultaneously.
- Visual search engines offer a different presentation of results.
- Reliable Resources are rich and deep on the subscription databases that school districts, ELM, and local public libraries offer. Much more targeted and reliable than a typical Internet search.
Thing 14. Reliable Online Resources
- There are reliable resources available free on the Internet--the challenge is finding them. Use these expert-created sources to find authentic Web sites, obscure documents, and interesting resources.
Thing 15. Collaboration
- Teacher/media specialist collaboration gives students the best of both worlds--subject specialists combined with research and information specialists.
- Plan a collaborative lesson incorporating both sets of skills.
Thing 16. MnLINK
- More resources at your fingertips. MnLINK offers the ability to search hundreds of Minnesota library catalogs at once, find items not available locally, and create requests for journal articles and more.
- We know you will discover new "Things" as you learn about the Things on the list. Take time to share what you find!
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