Scottish Information Literacy Project

Couple of blog postings that people might be interested in that relate to an Infolit iSchool Second Life event on 23rd April:

Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 Peter Godwin and Jo Parker

Impressions from the LILAC (information literacy) conference Vicki Cormie talking about Andrew Walsh’s session on using mobiles, Marshall Dozier talking about Peter Godwin’s, which also focused on mobiles.
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The project has been working with Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS):
North Lanarkshire Council, Education Resource Service
City of Edinburgh Council, Children and Families Department, Information and Learning Resources,
North Ayrshire Education Resources Service 
 
to  identify exemplars of good practice / case studies within the cross curricular area of information literacy for dissemination through the LTS (Learning and Teaching Scotland) [...]

I reported in my first posting on LILAC 2009 about Moira Bent and Elizabeth Stockdale’s presentation Integrating Information Literacy as a habit of learning: Assessing the impact of a golden thread of IL in the curriculum  for anyone who is interested the presentation is now on slideshare.

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The Scottish Information Literacy Project has been awarded funding by Learning and Teaching Scotland to work with Learning and Teaching Scotland in an area which is a key area for both Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Information Literacy Project. One of the Project’s ‘products’ is the first draft  of the National Information Literacy [...]

I only managed to attend one of the sesions on emerging technology Are we sharing our toys in the sandpit? A discussion on issues surrounding the re-use and re-purposing of electronic information literacy learning objects in the UK. where there emerged lots of the issues surrounding this area and the possiblity of interested parties coming together.
The use of mobile [...]

 
This year’s LILAC, held at Cardiff, was yet another administrative triumph for the organising committee with all the components of a successful international conference present including two superb evening events. I shall certainly be going back to Caerphilly Castle again. With the 5th year completed a pattern is now established with the continuing predominance of [...]

Bill Johnston is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement at the University of Strathclyde he has experience in first year experience as well as information literacy and is a member of the project advisory group and spends quite a bit of time in Australia speaking at conferences. In a recent [...]

Although Linda Jones and Greta Figgens (University of Portsmouth) ’Destination information!: taking staff on an information literacy journey’ was about library staff development some of the resulting activities did include transition for new students to HE.
Destination Information is the name of a successful staff development day held to introduce staff to information literacy (IL) and make them [...]

Transition is an area of interest to the project and I attended a couple of parallel session related to this topic
 
Michelle Schneider, University of Leeds – Reach for Excellence: Information Literacy supports widening participation
 
This scheme supports academically able young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, who for a variety of reasons feel higher education is out of their [...]

Clarissa Hunt (Open University)
Investigating the perceived value of information literacy skills for social workers 
 
Clarrisa’s presentation was about the OU’s Social Work degree and the IL strand within it which targeted 3 strands of practice learning. Of the students that took the stands (compulsory in Wales but not in England or Scotland) 60% of the 1st [...]