If you're a teacher, librarian, student or parent in my district, you may be interested in checking out our newly updated library department web pages. I/we will be adding more content over time, but for now, the basics and some interesting other resources have been updated and added---student resources, parent resources, teacher and librarian resources. …
Category: Information Literacy
Parents/Teachers, this is for you
Common Sense media is a great site for reviews of books, movies, TV shows, and music for your kids. Parents can review and give info to help you make wise decisions about which media your kids consume and what might be age-appropriate for them. Find the website here. I often go to this site if …
Research Help!
Are you working on a research paper or project? Is your teacher asking you to find information on a topic? Do you need help coming up with a topic? Evaluating information to see if it's quality? Citing your work? Proquest (a large database company) is making their Research Companion resources freely available for students until …
Information Literacy Videos
Something I'm now working on, and will continue to work on, during this pandemic, is creating information literacy videos. Basically, I'll be working on research topics. Today I made my first one, by taking a PPT slideshow, making it into a video, then uploading into Moviemaker, narrating it on my cell phone to match the …
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