How can you help Tom? A school librarian's guide to preparing students for university

How can you help Tom? A school librarian's guide to preparing students for university
Jo Alcock
Evidence Base
Birmingham City University

Who is Tom?

How can you help Tom?
Digital literacy:
What is digital literacy?
How can you support digital literacy?

What is digital literacy?
Helen Curtis, University of Wolverhampton

Fresher’s Week
Tom’s Experience
Busy social calendar
Making new friends and keeping in touch with old friends
Online social networking to supplement face to face socialising

How can you help?
Responsible social networking
School policy?
Support appropriate use (e.g. privacy)
Digital identity
This Is Me resource
Protecting reputation online
CommonCraft video

Lecture 1
Tom’s Experience
Multiple module guides to understand
Learning outcomes
Module requirements
Reading and resource lists to support studies
Different types of resources
Required vs. recommended reading

How can you help?
Using the VLE
School VLE/intranet
Online tools
Familiarisation with module guides
Copies of subject guides in the library
Exam board specifications
In house module guides
Using resource lists
Topic resource lists, even with fiction

Visit to library
Tom’s Experience
Using catalogue
Searching for reading list items
Browsing shelves and locating items
Online resources
Finding e-books and e-journals

How can you help?
Library activities
Quizzes
Rewards and certificates
Searching for known items
Using the catalogue
Treasure hunts
Understanding classification schemes
Order in the Library game

First assignment
Tom’s Experience
Lots of time spent finding resources
Needs to find a way of filtering out some of the resources
Need to incorporate research into assignment

How can you help?
Time management
Assignment Survival Kit
Constructing effective searches
Keyword activities
Evaluating information
5 Ws Information Source Evaluation Matrix
Spoof websites
Internet Detective
Referencing and plagiarism
Fundamentals of referencing

Your homework
3 things you are going to investigate or implement to improve the digital literacy skills at your school

Foundations to success

Thank you for listening
Jo Alcock
http://www.joeyanne.co.uk
@joeyanne
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How can you help Tom? A school librarian's guide to preparing students for university

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