Library Class and Subject Guides: Information Literacy Toolkit: All Resources

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Activity Item can be used as a class activity; examples include group discussions and student peer review
Video YouTube video explaining a process, concept or task
Assignment Item that can be used as a graded assignment
Step–by–Step Instructions Text and visuals explaining a process, concept, or task
Teaching Resource Support material for an assignment, activity, etc.
DIY Tutorial Instructions and questions inserted into an actual webpage. Guides user through a process,concept, or task.
Presentation Slideshow explaining a process, concept or task

Activity Activity items can be used as a class activity; examples include group discussions and student peer review

Activities

CABLES Problem-Based Learning Activity
Activity Assignment This worksheet can be used as a small group activity considering websites.Change the highlighted areas to designate how many sites to evaluate.
CABLES Source Credibility Worksheet
Activity Assignment This worksheet will help students evaluate sources using the CABLES method.
Characteristics of Academic Information
Activity Assignment In this activity, students compare academic and general information
Citation Mapping
Activity Assignment This activity will have students identify citations in an article, make connections, and use Google Scholar
Citation Swap Worksheet
Activity Assignment This worksheet encourages students to understand the different parts of a citation by translating APA-styel citations into another citation style.
Create Evaluation Criteria
Activity Assignment This activitiy lets students creat their own website evaluation criteria and test it on a site of their choice.
Developing Your Research Question
Activity Assignment Includes a "How do I create research questions" worksheet and instructions for a small group discussion

Developing your Research Topic Worksheet
Activity Assignment A worksheet to help students develop a research topic by Project CORA

Finding Articles
Activity Assignment 10 point activity to help students:
- Understand the purpose of subject-specific library databases
- Access fee-based/subscription information
- Use different searching language types (e.g., controlled vocabulary, keywords, natural language)
Filter Bubbles Video Discussion
Activity
After watching Eli Pariser's TED Talk on Filter Bubbles, students will reflect on and discuss the limitations of search engine results.
Information Think Pair Share
Activity This think-pair-share activity helps students to reflect on how information is used in coursework and in everyday life
Literature Review Template
Activity Assignment A fill-in-th-blank handout to help students organize their literature review.
Narrowing your Topic Worksheet
Research Ethics Activity
Activity Students reflect on and discuss real-life instances of plagiarism, violating participant rights, and research misappropriation.
Research Interest Worksheet
Activity Assignment This worksheet helps students generate topic ideas
Search Worksheet and Concept Map
Activity Assignment This worksheet will help students organize research concepts and find and refine research terms.

Synthesis Matrix
Activity Assignment Will help students articulate main points of a source, look for common themes, and differences, among sources and manage sources. From St. Mary's University of Minnesota Writing Center

Telephone & the Information Cycle
Activity This in-class group activity uses the elementary school game telephone to represent the diffusion and possible misinterpretation of research in our information society. The goal for students is to understand the importance of seeking the original source of information especially in academic research.
Trust in Research TED Talk Discussion
Activity Assignment This assignment discusses the TED Talk Trust in Research: The Ethics of Knowledge Production.

Video Videos explaining a process, concept or task

Videos

Assignment Items that can be used as graded assignments
Teaching Resource Support material for assignments, activities, etc.

Assignments AND Teaching Resources

Annotated Bibliography Assignment
Assignment This assignment helps students summarize the main points of a source, describe a source, work with evidence, and create citations.
CABLES Problem-Based Learning Activity
Activity Assignment This worksheet can be used as a small group activity considering websites.Change the highlighted areas to designate how many sites to evaluate.
CABLES Source Credibility Worksheet
Activity Assignment This worksheet will help students evaluate sources using the CABLES method.
Characteristics of Academic Information
Activity Assignment In this activity, students compare academic and general information
Citation Mapping
Activity Assignment This activity will have students identify citations in an article, make connections, and use Google Scholar
Citation Swap Worksheet
Activity Assignment This worksheet encourages students to understand the different parts of a citation by translating APA-styel citations into another citation style.

Confirmation Bias Assignment
Activity Assignment This Assignment will help you discern your own confirmation biases.

Create Evaluation Criteria
Activity Assignment This activitiy lets students creat their own website evaluation criteria and test it on a site of their choice.
Developing Your Research Question
Activity Assignment Includes a "How do I create research questions" worksheet and instructions for a small group discussion

Developing your Research Topic Worksheet
Activity Assignment A worksheet to help students develop a research topic by Project CORA

Finding Articles
Activity Assignment 10 point activity to help students:
- Understand the purpose of subject-specific library databases
- Access fee-based/subscription information
- Use different searching language types (e.g., controlled vocabulary, keywords, natural language)
Information Expert Reflection Paper
Assignment For this assignment, students learn people are also information sources. Students are required to meet with an information expert and then write a five page reflection describing what they learned and how the interaction impacted their leadership values.
Literature Review Assignment
Assignment This assignment will help sutdents synthesize and use sources to build a cohesive argument.
Literature Review Template
Activity Assignment A fill-in-th-blank handout to help students organize their literature review.

Reading Scholarly Articles for Research
Activity Assignment This Assignment walks students through reading difficult scholarly articles.

Reading a Scholarly Article Assignment
Assignment This assignment sheet has students selecting and evaluating a single article. Easily modified.
Research Interest Worksheet
Activity Assignment This worksheet helps students generate topic ideas
Search Worksheet and Concept Map
Activity Assignment This worksheet will help students organize research concepts and find and refine research terms.

Synthesis Matrix
Activity Assignment Will help students articulate main points of a source, look for common themes, and differences, among sources and manage sources. From St. Mary's University of Minnesota Writing Center

CABLES Assessment Rubrics
Teaching Resource Multiple CABLES rubrics for evaluation worksheets, annotated bibliographies, or adapt them for other assignments.
Information Expert Reflection Paper Rubric
Teaching Resource
Literature Review Assignment Rubric
Teaching Resource A rubric for the Literature Review Assignment
Rubric for Annotated Bibliography Assignment
Teaching Resource Rubric for the Annotated Bibliography assignment above.

Signal Phrases for Summarizing, Paraphrasing, & Quotations
Teaching Resource This handout lists potential signal phrases students can use The handout's information comes from the book They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing.

Trust in Research TED Talk Discussion
Activity Assignment This assignment discusses the TED Talk Trust in Research: The Ethics of Knowledge Production.

Step–by–Step Instructions Text and visuals explaining a process, concept, or task

Step-by-Step Instructions

Determining Peer Review
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help you determine if a journal is peer reviewed or not.
Find Articles by Topic Instructions
Step–by–Step Instructions Walk through the process of finding an article
Finding a Specific Article Instructions
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help you find a specific article
Get Articles from Other Libraries Instructions
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help you request materials from other libraries.
Get Books from Other Libraries
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will show you how to request books from other libraries.
Locating Books at Memorial Library
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help you figure out how to find books on the shelf in Memorial Library.
Renew Books Instructions
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will walk users through how to renew books.
Requesting Library Materials for Distance Students
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help distance learners request materials from MSU.
Searching for Books at MSU
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help you search for and access books at MSU.
Text Instructions - Reading Scholarly Articles
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help readers approach difficult-to-read articles
Using Google Scholar Off Campus Instructions
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help people off-campus use Google Scholar effectively!
Using Textbook Reserves
Step–by–Step Instructions These instructions will help you find textbook course reserves and answer some frequently asked questions about the program.

Presentation Slideshows explaining a process, concept or task

Presentations

Academic Honesty Slideshow
Presentation This Slideshow defines what academic honesty at MSU.
CABLES Presentation
Presentation This resources walks students through the acronym CABLES and how it can help evaluate sources.

Citation Styles PowerPoint
Presentation This PPT presentation introduces students to the basic concept of citations. It may be paired with Citation Swap Worksheet.

Information Literacy Toolkit