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Material:
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TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
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| Submitted by: |
Cheryl Devenney on Mar 06, 2003 |
| Date Last Modified: |
Mar 06, 2003 |
| Title: |
Using TILT to effectively employ online databases for research |
| Description: |
This is on online interactive assignment consisting of 3 tutorial modules. |
| Type of Task: |
Individual,
Unsupervised
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| Time Required |
approximately 2 hours |
| Topics: |
Selecting, searching and evaluating information sources |
| Course: |
Introduction to Online Learning |
| Audience: |
College General Ed
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| Categories: |
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| Prerequisites Skills: |
basic computer skills |
| Learning Objectives: |
1. Identify a variety of information sources
2. Identify characteristics of information on the Web
3. Distinguish between popular and scholarly
periodicals
4. Identify appropriate strategies for selecting
search terms
5. Combine search terms effectively
6. Describe when to cite a source
7. Recognize different parts of a URL |
| Technical Notes: |
User's computer needs, Netscape 3.0 or Explorer 4.0, a browser that accepts cookies, and Shockwave Flash 3 |
| Text of Learning Exercise: |
*Register with TILT and proceed to Module 1 (selecting), complete it and take
the quiz, follow instructions at the end of the quiz to e-mail results to
instructor.
* Do the same for module 2 (searching), and module 3 (evaluating).
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