Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills.

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  • Debra Kolah
  • Michael Fosmire

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https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2509

Abstract

Librarians at Rice and Purdue Universities created novel assignments to teach students important information literacy skills. The assignments required the students to use a third-party web site, PageFlakes and NetVibes, respectively, to create a dynamically updated portal to information they needed for their research and class projects. The use of off-the-shelf web 2.0 technology to enable students to discover the latest information in their subject areas of interest provides an engaging, hands-on environment with immediate feedback on the quality of their searching. The authors provide a basic introduction to the use of the 'portal' web site. Then, the results of using this technique, for graduate students in physics in one case and junior/senior level undergraduates in the other, are analyzed, and recommendations for the integration of this type of assignment in other courses are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2010-03-01

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Kolah, D., & Fosmire, M. (2010). Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, (60). https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2509

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