I.  Sign-in and Session Starter  5 Minutes

•  Icebreaker  http://region6.mainelearns.org/icebreaker.html
"How is researching and writing a report today different from when you were a student?"
"What challenges do students face when researching and writing reports?"

•  Reprise

Archie & Edith - Those Were the Days  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUeAAHmwR8
Face over Time   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDJq_5yle0
Frustrated Farmer  http://www.aimsedu.org/aimskids/ipuzzles/farmer/farmer.html
Singing Horses  http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/horses.htm
Father Guido's 5 Minute University  http://videosrv6.cs.washington.edu/general/5minuteU.wmv

•  Organize State Conference Days  

• Register for Maine Math and Science Alliance Conference  http://www.mmsa.org/digitalresources/index.php

• Register for ACTEM Conference  http://www.actem.org/Pages/ACTEM_Conference/index

• Register for MAMLE Conference  http://www.mamleonline.org/conf.html


II.  Establish Session Goals  10 Minutes

•  Learners will broaden their understanding of information literacy in the
contemporary world.

•  Learners will understand how information-literacy skills can improve their
use, and their students’ use, of information sources.

•  Learners will develop effective skills for evaluating Internet resources.

•  Learners will work on Web Pages and/or WebQuest

Summarize and Question


III.  Defining Information Literacy  30 Minutes

Online Quiz:  http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=181&parentid=56


IV.  Locating and Accessing Information  30 Minutes

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech222.shtml (search engines)

http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/2.html#directories (search engines)

http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/2.html (search engines, directories, metasearch engines)

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech225.shtml (Boolean operators)

http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/4.html (Boolean operators)

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm (Four NETS—search tips)

http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/6.html (proximity: the “near” operator)

http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/5.html (phrases)

http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/9.html (truncation and wildcards)

http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/11.html (field searching)

http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/lesson9.shtml (field searching)

http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml (“Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web”)

Taking Apart a URL from participant module (p. 10)

Research Links:  http://region6.mainelearns.org/researchlinks.html

MARVEL: Maine's Virtual Library  http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/

Advanced Google  http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html


V.  Evaluating Information 
60 Minutes
http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=160 (November
Learning: Information Literacy)

http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/%7Espjvweb/evalwebteach.html
(Evaluating Webpages: A WebQuest)

 http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=179
&parentid=56 (November Learning: Websites to Validate)

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html (Kathy Schrock’s
Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers—Critical Evaluation Information)
Community Schools: Evaluation Rubrics for Websites)

http://www.cyberbee.com/content.pdf (Adventures of Cyberbee:
Cyberguide Ratings for Content Evaluation)
Evaluating Information Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/evalinfo.html
Website Validity  http://www.whois.net/
Old Pages  http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

VI.  Web Work

NoteShare Intro  http://region6.mainelearns.org/noteshare.html
Website & WebQuest 60 Minutes


VIII.  Closing  15 Minutes

http://region6.mainelearns.org/maineteachers.html