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Information Literacy at Guttman: A Faculty Toolkit
Use this guide to locate information literacy lessons you can adapt for your courses.
Six minute video explains how to evaluate information using the CARDIO criteria: Currency, Authority, Relevancy, Depth of Documentation, Information Type, and Objectivity. Use in conjunction with CARDIO handout listed under "Evaluating Sources" in this guide.
Three-minute video showing users how to access Opposing Viewpoints which has essays, scholarly articles, news, reference materials, overviews, and videos on current event topics.
Created by the New Literacies Alliance, this self-paced, interactive tutorial explains how scholarship is conversation between scholars in a field. Students investigate ways they can become part of the scholarly conversation.
Created by NC State University Libraries, this 3-minute video is a quick way to introduce the research process. Topics covered: research as iterative process, pre-searching, narrowing topics
Created by Auburn University librarians, this tutorial is intended for novice researchers who need to search a library database. The tutorial includes written instruction, videos, and hands-on practice. It incorporates assessment through a flashcard sorting activity and uses embedded forms to capture student responses on an activity asking for their research questions and potential keywords. Topics covered: choosing keywords from a research question, brainstorming synonyms and related terms
Created by librarians at Dickinson College, this short, interactive tutorial teaches students how to evaluate the quality of sources in the context of a particular research topic. It combines visual instruction, narration with closed captions, and interactive quizzes to help students learn at their own pace. Topics covered: primary and secondary sources, popular versus scholarly, source evaluation demonstration
Created by University of Maryland to support its global campuses, use this video to introduce APA style. Topics covered include in-text citations, references list. Use in conjunction with the Excelsior Writing Lab also linked in this list.
Also created by the University of Maryland, this tutorial covers the basics of MLA citation. Use in conjunction with the Excelsior Writing Lab also linked in this list.
3-minute video succinctly and clearly explains the difference between formatting endnotes and a bibliography. Use in conjunction with the Excelsior Writing Lab also linked in this list.
