user education

"A [handbook] outlining the theory and practice of using active learning techniques in a library setting..."--amazon.com.

A ring-bound, tabbed system which guides working librarians, teachers and trainers through the process of teaching others how to access and use electronic information resources, discussing how to introduce new users to Internet culture, how to design effective written guides, and how to coordinate a successful workshop.

Presents the Big6 Skills approach to information problem-solving in schools. Shows how to teach information and technology skills. In excerpts from teacher inservice sessions and classroom sequences, Mike Eisenberg explains the Big6 Skills students need in the information age: task definition, information seeking strategies, location and access, use of information, synthesis, and evaluation. Graphics, commentary from narrator, and segments of students at work demonstrate use of the Big6 Skills.

Lessons for teaching library media skills incorporating junior high and middle school subjects.

Presents fifteen thirty- to forty-five-minute library lessons for fourth through eighth graders based on books featuring magic, including "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and provides evaluation tips and extension activity ideas.

Contains fifteen lessons designed to improve the library, research, and literature skills of students in fourth through eighth grade, created for use in a library setting, each including visuals, activity sheets, an evaluation, and extension.