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General Ed info lit tutorials

animated, interactive tutorial that introduces undergraduate students to some basic concepts of online searching. These concepts include: 1) Using the search term AND 2) Identifying keywords 3) Thinking of synonyms and related terms 4) Examining a citation and 5) Putting it all together. Concepts are illustrated interactively through a series of highly visual modules/games. Whenever possible, concepts and instructions are explained with a minimum amount of text. The tutorial is not resource or university specific in any way. Rather, any university (or high-school) student could complete it to gain an inderstanding of basic information literacy skills.

Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2008
Created by:: Nancy Thomas
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College Level Research (Tutorial)

Web-based, multimedia tutorial developed by the campus Library & Information Literacy Instruction Program and funded in... More

Web-based, multimedia tutorial developed by the campus Library & Information Literacy Instruction Program and funded in part by a DoIT Adaptation Grant. The tutorial was designed to be part of a required information literacy module for the campus Communications Requirement courses but can also be used by anyone who wants to learn the basic information-seeking skills and strategies. This particular module is designed to explain to freshmen the differences between doing research for high school and research for college courses.