Information Literacy Is Going to the Dogs

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

• Kathy Albertson, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Copyright

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Location

Room 210

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

In this First Year Experience course at Georgia Southern, students who chose to take the 2-credit course on America’s Obsession with Dogs learned about and applied information literacy skills as they researched topics of their choices. This workshop will share the activities used to keep students interested in and recognizing the value of reliable sources.

Keywords

First year experience, Information literacy, Source evaluation

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Albertson, Kathy, "Information Literacy Is Going to the Dogs" (2009). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 25.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2009/2009/25