August: Blogs and Courses
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If you haven't already seen our two new blogs, please check these out:
Internet Search Challenge Blog Challenge creator Carl Heine provides the back story for new search challenges, including tips to save you and your students time and frustration in locating and evaluating information.
Keyword Blog Dennis O'Connor shares news and insights on information fluency, Web 2.0, emerging technology and much more, including bloggers you need to know.
There's still time to squeeze in a dynamic course experience with educators around the globe before school starts:
Power Searching in a Web 2.0 World Improve
your ability to locate and evaluate information in an increasingly Web
2.0 World. In
only 4 weeks you will be searching more
efficiently, evaluating more effectively and developing new
applications for your classroom or library settings. Course starts Aug 4, 5 CEUs or 25 CPDUs. $99. Register by Aug 4.
Web Site Investigator Show your students how to apply information forensics to online searching. Finding the author, publisher, references, date and other evidence is critical to determining the worth of information and citing it. We'll help you master investigative searching in this two week course and explore ways students can safely become skilled investigators. Course starts Aug 11, 10 CPDUs. $68. Register by Aug 11.
Anyone looking for proven ways to teach 21st
Century Information Skills to students or staff is strongly encouraged to complete one or both of these courses. Our modular training materials make building an inservice workshop a snap!
Sign up today!
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