Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills
| dc.contributor.author | Kolah, Debra | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-25T20:25:11Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2010-05-25T20:25:11Z | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kolah, Debra. "Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills." (2010) Association of College and Research Libraries, Science and Technology Section: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/27536">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/27536</a>. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1092-1206 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/27536 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Association of College and Research Libraries, Science and Technology Section | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en_US |
| dc.subject | information portals | en_US |
| dc.subject | information fluency | en_US |
| dc.title | Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |