So far, we've covered what information literacy is and its importance for the success of your students. Our discussion and assignments have reviewed library and free-Web resources and how they can be integrated into your course content in order to reinforce information literacy objectives. The sample assignments module contains a variety of assignment examples, to give you ideas as you design your assignment.
For your Final Deliverable in this workshop, please design an assignment, either a completely new one that you have never used before, or a revision to an existing assignment. The assignment you design should integrate and reinforce one or more information literacy objectives. (You can review UMUC information literacy skill requirements and UMUC information literacy objectives.)
As you create this assignment you may want to refer back to the library's Information Literacy and Writing Assessment Project: Tutorial for Developing and Evaluating Assignments and UMUC Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory's Preventing Plagiarism Resistant Assignments: Best Practices. Section 4, Designing Assignments that Contain Writing and Research, of the Information Literacy and Writing Assessment Project: Tutorial for Developing and Evaluating Assignments includes Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as well as a Dos and Don'ts list in creating assignments.
Please post your Final Deliverable in the Conferences section, under Days 7-10: Submit Your Final Deliverable and Comment on a Colleague's.
In that same conference, besides posting your own assignment, please offer comments on at least one of your colleagues' assignments. You might have words of appreciation as well as ideas for changing the assignment in some way. This is a chance to workshop the assignments you are developing and make them as relevant as possible to our students' learning needs.