Resources:

Big6, an approach to teaching information skills, web site provides a description of this model, lessons, resources and a chart correlating the Big6 skills with the national Information Literacy Standards developed by the American Association of School Librarians and the National Educational Standards for Students (NETS). At: www.big6.com

Buddy2 Teaching and Learning Center in Indianapolis offers two all day workshops for IN educators on information literacy: “Learning to Learn: Making Effective Use of Student Research” and ‘Information Literacy Skills for Today's Students”. There is no charge for these courses. At: www.btlc.org

CyberTours, created by Pam Berger InfoSearch editor, is a series of activities designed to provide a hands-on exploration of search strategies, information sources and issues. At: www.infosearcher.com

From Now On, a free educational technology journal, published by Jamie McKenzie, provides on going information about information literacy. An example is “Winning with Information Literacy” (Summer 2000) describes how moving past technology to literacy will improve student achievement. At: www.fno.org

Indiana State University delivers many courses via distance learning. Titles include “Reference Sources and Services for Library Media” and ‘Instructional Media for Elementary Teaching.” At: http://soe.indstate.edu/cimt/

Indiana University School of Library and Information Science at Bloomington and Indianapolis offers graduate courses and special workshops on information literacy topics including; “Information Inquiry for School Teachers”, “Information Sources and Services,” and Education of information Users.” At: www.slis.Indiana.edu/

TILT, Texas Information Literacy Tutorial, is an educational web site designed to introduce users research sources and skills. A good beginning to understand information literacy, selecting sources, searching skills, and criteria for assessing credibility of sources. At: http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu

“21st Century Literacies” Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiatives for 21st Century Literacy, 2002. - Contains resources both bibliographic and web-based to assist library media specialists in their quest to learn and/or teach literacy skills. Contains many lessons for information literacy, media literacy, multicultural literacy, and visual literacy. At http://www.kn.pacbell.com/