Teaching for Information Literacy

The Research Process: A step-by-step tutorial from the Oregon School Library Information System

Saskatchewan Online Library Orientation (SOLO)
provides guidance on all aspects of the research process, including defining research needs, developing a research strategy, searching for resources (including books, journal articles, and web sites), evaluating the quality of resources, and using material responsibly to avoid plagiarism.

OASIS: Online Advancement of Student Information Skills
This is an extensive site dealing with 8 chapters on defining research, locating information, using databases, using the Internet, how to evaluate, organize and synthesize information, legal and ethical issues, and media literacy.

Blogging the Research Process

Transparency and constructivism, etc. (Or five good reasons to blog the research process)

Joyce Valenza oulines five reasons for students to blog their research process

1. Blogging inspires reflection and focus on process.
2. Blogging helps learners organize and manage the process.
3. Blogging is transparent.
   
4. The best of these projects create pathfinders that might be shared by other researchers.
5. Blogging inspires interaction, social (constructivist) knowledge building, and the kind of intervention Carol Kulthau saw as critical in the information search process.