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1. "5 Components of Information Literacy" Video Tutorial
2. Week 1 Discussion Board Assignment: Getting to Know One Another and Building Community
3. The Danger of a Single Story
4. Week 1 Journal Assignment: "The Danger of a Single Story"
5. Week 1 Supplementary Content
6. Effective Reading
7. Week 2 Journal Assignment: Exploring Your Background as a Reader
8. Determining Information Needs Tutorial
9. Field Trip and Discussion Board Assignment: Exploring Your Local Library
10. Week 3 Discussion Board Assignment: Your Reading Comprehension Strategies
11. Reference Information Seeking Assignment
12. Using Reference Sources Tutorial
13. Week 3 Research Activity: Using Wikipedia for Academic Research
14. Finding Books Assignment
15. Book Share Discussion Board Assignment
16. Using Books for Research (Tutorial)
17. Supplementary Content
18. Articles Exploration Assignment
19. Week 5 Discussion Board Assignment: Article Share and Research Update
20. An Introduction to Periodicals
21. Databases Overview
22. Implementing a Search Strategy
23. Reading Strategies for Scholarly Articles
24. Week 6 Journal Assignment: Reflecting on “Evaluating Information” Reading and "Culture and Information Literacy" Video
25. Internet Exploration Assignment
26. Week 6 Discussion Board Assignment: Open Access
27. Using the Internet
28. Evaluating Information
29. Evaluating Information Reading
30. Culture and Information Literacy
31. An Introduction to Open Access Reading
32. Supplementary Content
33. Week 7 Discussion Board Assignment: Intellectual Property and Citing Information Sources
34. Citing Sources
35. Definitions
36. Copyright and Intellectual Property Toolkit: Other Types of IP
37. Fair Use
38. Public Domain
39. Copyright and Intellectual Property Toolkit: Creative Commons, Copyleft, and Other Licenses
40. Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property – Background Brief
41. Week 7: Choose Your own Citation Adventure (Research Assignment)
42. APA Citation Guide: Welcome
43. MLA Citation Guide (MLA 8th Edition): Welcome
44. Developing a Research Question (Tutorial)
45. Final Culminating Project
“How Books Can Open Your Mind” by Lisa Bu (TED Talk)
Journal Assignment (based on TED Talk)
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