Using Technology To Teach Information Literacy

Innovative. Collaborative. Tools for teaching with technology that work! Why teach information literacy, technology literacy, and discipline-specific research skills separately when teaching them together fires students imaginations, improves learning, visibly demonstrates the value of your library s unique services and expertise to faculty, and lets you reach students who might never otherwise walk through the library s doors? The first book on teaching information literacy with technology across the curriculum is full of case studies and lesson plans that will help you put together a cutting-edge, technology-based course for your institution. Each chapter is co-written by a librarian-faculty member team involved in a collaborative teaching-with-technology project. An overview of the literature will help you explain the value of this dynamic approach to faculty and administration. Every academic library will want to have a copy of this book, as will any faculty member involved in teaching information literacy.

The instructional models exampled in this work will educate, enlighten, and influence... --Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2009

The instructional models exampled in this work will educate, enlighten, and influence faculty and librarians to incorporate new methodologies of teaching information literacy to a student population already accustomed to a variety of online environments. --Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2009

Written for educators and librarians alike, this book explains how the web can be a more collaborative medium... --Reference and Research Book News, February 2009

"The experience and knowledge shared by the various authors will be invaluable to any academic librarian involved in online delivery of content and services and to those involved in teaching information literacy." --The Australian Library Journal, February/May 2010

Written for educators and librarians alike, this book explains how the web can be a more collaborative medium... --Reference and Research Book News, February 2009

"This should be of high value to librarians interested in information literacy and to administrators interested in concrete examples of how technology is changing the library and higher education." --Portal: Libraries and the Academy, July 2009

Written for educators and librarians alike, this book explains how the web can be a more collaborative medium... --Reference and Research Book News, February 2009