I’ve long admired the creative work done by IMSA’s 21st Century Information Fluency initiative. Their performance-based learning and assessment tools make information fluency seem like fun, even if you weren’t born a librarian.Â
Don’t miss IMSA’s Full Circle Resource Kit–chock full of curriculum, interactive challenges, and assessment. Their tutorials and wizards–which include thesaurus, spell check and citation tools–are well worth linking students and teachers to.
Next week, I look forward to attending IMSA’s Game Based Approach to Website Evaluation Webinar. To register, and for further information visit the Keyword Blog.
Join Dr. Carl Heine and Dennis O’Connor from the IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project for a webinar presenting game based methods for learning digital resource evaluation skills. You will have a chance to preview and play several flash based online learning games including a new website evaluation simulation. A discussion of how to teach evaluation of digital materials will follow. Participants will be given access to free online games about Information Fluency as well as other professional development materials. Â Â An educational gaming pre-session will be available one half hour before start-up.
This session will be particularly valuable for K-12 teachers, librarians, and administrators who are teaching information fluency. It will also benefit anyone implementing information fluency programs in higher education and corporate training. Invite your colleagues and join us for an interactive webinar on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 4:00 pm EST.
This live online session - which is sponsored by LearningTimes.org - is free of charge, but seating is limited. Please register now to reserve a virtual seat.
