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ENG 111 Library Instruction (2021) Intended for students to learn how to use basic library research services, like how to find instructional videos and relevant resources for their current assignment. -
English 119 Library Instruction Session -
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article This lesson presented on a Google Site, works with students on how to break down the scholarly article into manageable parts. Students are provided techniques on how to read a scholarly such as looking first at the abstract, introduction, and conclusion to discover more about the article before diving in further. -
Know Your News This series of activities presented with Google Sites, has students distinguish between real and fake news. -
Scholarly, Popular, and Beyond! Presented on Google Sites, this activity can be used synchronously or asynchronously that helps students differentiate between scholarly and popular sources. -
Memorable Making Experience Activity (Adapted from Agency by Design) This activity gets students thinking about how they are makers and showcases that everyone can be a maker no matter their experiences or discipline. -
MBI 147 Lesson Plan -
UNV 101 King Library Exploration This in-class handout introduces students to library resources and services through the university libraries’ website by doing a scavenger hunt type activity. Students learn about such things as how to find databases and subject guides, how to search books and articles as well as how to use the library’s chat service and where to find the Special Collections website. -
Lateral Reading Workshop and Online Activity Included is a PowerPoint presentation to do an in-class activity with students on lateral reading as well as an online activity for distance learning students. The following link leads to the online activity: -
Focusing Your Topic This activity gets students brainstorming their topics before they decide what keywords to use for research. Students are asked to think about the who, what, where, when, and why of their topics. After students brainstorm, they will define three major concepts and synonyms for those major concepts to use as keywords in their database research. -
Rating Websites with the CRAAP Test (and Using Lateral Reading) This activity can be done with an example website or with students’ own website they found. It takes about 15-20 minutes to allow enough time for students to rate their articles and participate in a group discussion. The library instructor should introduce the activity by discussing the basics to evaluating resources and highlighting the importance of fact-checking the author and their credentials. Students should be encouraged to fact-check the webpage by Googling information about the site. After students are given about 15 minutes to rate their webpage, the library instructor will ask for participation from students about how they rated their webpage using the different criteria. -
Choosing "Good" and "Bad" Resources Activity This is a 10-15 minute active learning activity that has students look at the varying context of information sources. It hopefully sparks a conversation among students so that they can reflect on what kinds of sources they need to best match their information needs.