Faculty Resources: Teaching Literacy

Promotes and shares Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Onine, created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments.

Allows users to upload slide presentations. The presentations can then be viewed over the net, even without PowerPoint. The original PowerPoint file is available for download for most presentations.

TeacherTube is the educational alternative to YouTube. The goal of the site is to: "provide an online community for sharing instructional videos."

College and University Faculty

A clip from an older Nightline program. The images are dated, but the concept is still dead-on. A decent video for introducing the concept of information overload. YouTube - 3:45

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. YouTube - 5:28

This video is a great intro to information literacy! I've began classroom discussions about information literacy by using this video.YouTube - 8:54

How not to treat rare essay papers! (just for fun.) YouTube - 9:13

YouTube - Classic Sesame Street

"I don't trust books. They're all facts, no heart." Colbert instructs us on the nature of truth! 2:40 - 10/17/05 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

The instructional uses of these comic strips are endless! All aspect of library issues.

Produces documentary films that challenge "norms" of how information is shared and distributed via marketing tools.

"CML works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture."