Library Skills 001   Tags: library skills 1, libs 1, media issues, media literacy  

Become your own Fact Checker with Library Skills 1!

Searchpath (the course's "textbook")

Assignments

Library Catalog

Databases

Films to Watch for Media Literacy Project

Noodle Tools

Take Home Final (through Blackboard)  DEADLINE: MARCH 28, 5 p.m.

Take-Home Final or Term Project Diversions!

Welcome to Library Skills 1! 
Course Syllabus

In this course you will learn to become information literate--

you will learn how to:

• find information
• search information (in Library Catalog, databases such as EBSCOhost, World Wide Web and more)
• select and evaluate information
• organize information effectively

as we learn tips and tricks to become better researchers.   Throughout the course, you will gain research skills while you pursue a topic-- either on traditional or social media, a separate topic of your choice, or a topic you are pursuing in another class. 

To make sure you are exposed to as much skills and continue to practice between every class:

• there will be at least one brief assignment due every class,
•  a research project you will be pursuing throughout the class
• a media literacy project of which you will have seen a film (or two to four episodes of an approved TV show),
• and a final take-home examination. 

Be sure to look at the syllabus for more details.