This community is designed to facilitate Information Literacy and writing integration. As members, you are invited to share ideas and resources, to pose questions, to investigate publications and research, and to mold the community to meet your needs.
The site moderators are Caroline Sinkinson & Diane Debella.
The site name is borrowed from: Norgaard, Rolf. (2003). “Writing Information Literacy.” Reference User Services Quarterly 43 (2): 124-130.
Diane Debella and Caroline Sinkinson will be hosting 2 workshops on the new RIOT and classroom integration this week. The workshops are part of the seven week colloquuim for new lecturers/ GPTIS run by Lonni Pearce and Kathryn Pieplow.
February 8th from 1-2
February 9th from 11-12
Room: Norlin Library Room E260B
Please contact caroline.sinkinson@colorado.edu with questions.
http://www.wdyl.com/#information+literacy
Check-out the portal search for information literacy using Google’s ‘What do you love’ search. The search retrieves results for a number of google services, including: Google books, YouTube, Google news, Trends, Maps and Google Groups.
Try your own search at: www.wdyl.com
This message provides highlights and updates about the first year writing course information literacy component.
RIOT v.2:
As you know, this semester we are launching a new version of RIOT which will be offered through the campus course management system, Desire2Learn.
I invite you to explore a demo version of the new tutorial, if you have not already.
Note: you should have access, but if you have any difficulty please contact me.
An introductory video for you: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/Instruction/R2help.html
Instructions for you: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/Instruction/d2linstructorguide.pdf
Instructions for your students: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/Instruction/d2lstudentguide.pdf
The live tutorial will be available to your students on 1/30/2012.
Seminars: The seminar is designed to build on the skills established in RIOT. There are three critical elements to a successful seminar:
1. The students have a research need at the time they arrive (e.g. a paper coming up).
2. The students have a specific research topic that they will be pursuing.
3. The students have already completed RIOT, since the seminar lesson plan builds on the material in the tutorial
To request a seminar, go to:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/reference/instructionform.htm
Research Center: The Research Center is conveniently located in the Writing Center (Norlin E111). The Research Center will be open beginning 2/6/2012 M-TH from 2-5. Please encourage your students to visit the research center for help with RIOT, research topics, library databases, keyword searching etc.
Please contact Caroline Sinkinson and Diane Debella with any questions.
The new 
Research Online Instruction Tutorial (RIOT) is set to debut in all first year writing classes during the spring 2012, pending final OIT issues. Two workshops have been scheduled to introduce the new tutorial. These workshops will be held on Tuesday, November 8th at 12:00 pm in Norlin E260, and Wednesday, November 9th at 10:00 am in Norlin E260. If you have any questions, contact Diane DeBella or Caroline Sinkinson.
habits of thought, reading, writing and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional cliches, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experiences, text, subject matter, policy, mass media or discourse
Shor, I. (1992). Empowering education: Critical teaching for social change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
Wallace, D. F., & Kenyon College. (2009). This is water. New York: Little, Brown.
You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. … You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress. (Burke 110-11)
Burke, Kenneth. The Philosophy of Literary Form. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941
