The Information Fluency Journey

Task Definition

• Research Assignment Organizer
• Big6 Organizer - Secondary Level & Elementary Level

Information Seeking Strategies

• Example (created using Inspiration)
• Brainstorming Organizer (government example)
• Brainstorming Organizer (weather example)

Locate, Validate, & Access

• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Or why its good to evaluate web sites.
• The Web-Teaching Zack to Think - The Alan November story makes us realize that unreliable and false information on the web does affect our students. Some good techniques to teach secondary students (and teachers).
• S.N.A.P. - tool to help validate resources
  (NEW: Checklist for students to evaluate web sites)
• Sample lessons on validation
  • Great Wall of China (example lesson for teaching triangulation)
  • Columbus Day Decision (example lesson for teaching bias & point of view)

Use of Information

• Trash & Treasure - helping students sort & sift for relevant information
• Project Data Sheet - a sample student organizer for collecting data

Synthesis

• Product Ideas

Evaluation

• Rubric to Evaluate Project
• Another Rubric to Evaluate Project
• Rubric to Evaluate Process
• Another Rubric to Evaluate Process
• RubiStar - a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch