Online Information Literacy Tutorials
Springfield College:
Babson Library has developed its own set of online tutorials called Searchpath. Searchpath (based on the Searchpath tutorial created at Western Michigan University) is a set of six online literacy modules available from the Babson Library homepage. The six modules are:
- Starting Smart: This module covers types of information sources you can use for your topic.
- Choosing a Topic: This module covers topic selection and how to identify keywords to search your topic.
- Voyager: This module covers how to search Voyager, the Babson Library catalog.
- Finding Articles: This module covers how to use article indexes to identify articles on a subject.
- Using the Web: When you have completed this section of Searchpath, you should be able to: understand the organization of the Internet; identify the major types of Web sites; use search engines and metasearch engines to search the Web; interpret and evaluate Web search engine results
- Citing Sources: This module covers citing sources, plagiarism, and copyright.
Babson Library has newer formats and material on Using the Web, as below. These tutorials work best on high-speed Internet connections.
- Understanding Web Addresses, Using Search Engines, and Interpreting Results: from Babson Library. How much do you really know about using search engines and reading your results? Test yourself with the updated tutorial. Run time: 7 minutes, 45 seconds, plus quiz time. Created: 2/5/2007.
- Using Subject Directories & Evaluating Websites: from Babson Library. When would you use a subject directory on the web? And how can you tell if that website is going to meet your professors' approval? Run time: 5 minutes, 30 seconds. Created: 2/5/2007.
Send your students to use additional tutorials, such as how to avoid plagiarism, search for tests and measurements, use RefWorks and use advanced search tools in EBSCO databases: From the main library page, click on tutorials.
SEE ALSO our Information Literacy Topics page for a list of mix-and-match modules for various InfoLit needs.
Other Institutions:
There are also a number of other tutorials used at other institutions. Here is a sampling of some of them:
- The 21st Century Information Fluency Project: From Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Provides professional development, tools and resources to develop the digital information fluency skills of educators and learners in Illinois and beyond.
- OASIS: Online Advancement of Student Information Skills from San Francisco State University. OASIS is a set of eight online lessons designed to help improve a student's skills finding, using, and evaluating information.
- TILT: Texas Information Literacy Tutorial. From the University of Texas System Digital Library. TILT is designed to introduce first-year students to research sources and skills. The tutorial offers an introduction and three modules.
- UW-Parkside Information Literacy Tutorial: From the University of Wisconsin Parkside. Five modules on the research process, research skills, finding and selecting material, evaluating resources, and using sources responsibly.
- Information Literacy Tutorial: From the Five Colleges of Ohio. Individual tutorials organized under three categories: Getting started; How to find information; Putting it together.
- QuickStudy Library Research Guide: From the University of Minnesota Libraries. A series of eight modules to help with strategies for approaching research and to introduce some of the computer resources to use.
- Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University: From Rutgers University. A multimedia presentation.
- Information Literacy & You: From Penn State University