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Permalink Reply by Melanie on April 11, 2007 at 9:17pm

Interesting that you should ask this. For my LIS management class I did a search for some interactive online tutorials related to libraries. This is what I found. I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for but I thought these were very well done.

This is another great tutorial.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Clark on April 11, 2007 at 10:16pm

Do a google for Searchpath--it's a freeware tutorial template that you can personalize for your own library. not the most cutting edge thing out there, but it covers the basics.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Darrow on April 11, 2007 at 10:58pm

Here are some I have used/seen that may be helpful:
University of Washington Research 101: http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/
US Navy Info Lit Toolkit - http://www.doncio.navy.mil/iltoolkit/default.htm
Quality Information Quicklist - http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
Library Instruction Wiki: http://instructionwiki.org/Main_Page
Information Literacy Blog has some ideas as well: http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/

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Permalink Reply by Mark McBride on April 12, 2007 at 10:52am

Laurie -

I am part of an IL group on my campus, which is exploring ways to start an IL program on campus with very few staff and low teaching-faculty support. My responsibility is to pinpoint online tutorials we can use. Right now I'm focusing in on plagiarism and trying to find online tutorials and games which help the students.

Check these out:
http://library.uncg.edu/game/
http://www.fairfield.edu/x13870.html
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/
http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/plagiarism/selector.htm
http://www.umuc.edu/ugp/ewp_writingcenter/modules/plagiarism/

I have used Captivate, a software application from Adobe, to create some tutorials specific to our library and our students requests. We have only just begun. (The software,shamefully, does not work with Macs)

http://people.alfred.edu/~mcbride/Blackboard_print.htm
http://people.alfred.edu/~mcbride/LRC_tutor.htm

I find Merlot to be a great tool. Some of the tutorials above, I found searching through Merlot.

- Mark

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Permalink Reply by Kate Peterson on April 12, 2007 at 1:52pm

I helped work on this tutorial from California State University Long Beach--which still isn't quite finished (I am not sure if not finished counts as cutting edge...). We tried to incorporate the idea from LOBO2 with a research worksheet they fill in along the way and the Assignment Calculator from the University of Minnesota and other elements from other tutorials.

http://www.csulb.edu/projects/surf/

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Permalink Reply by Paul Betty on April 12, 2007 at 2:08pm

Here's another well know info lit tutorial:
Texas Information Litearcy Tutorial
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

The previously listed game/tutorial from UNC-Greensboro is another good one (and customizable too!)

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Parsons on April 13, 2007 at 4:50pm

Actually, as someone very unrelated to this discussion who is considering information literacy as a subject for her master's prospectus or independent study, I want to thank everyone for these links. This is awesome! Wow!

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