Abusing Our Human Rights: The Truth, the Internet and a Multi-Media Approach to Connecting Global Cultures

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Stefanie Frigo, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Location

Room 211

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

The author demonstrates how a multi-media approach can be used across disciplines to develop the information literacy skills of today’s students through a review of an assignment written for a first-year global awareness course in which students produce a group portfolio as their final project. Students choose one human right as it is described in the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and create a collection of material demonstrating their understanding of that right, their appreciation of how it affects them in their native cultural context, and their knowledge of how this right is being respected and abused around the globe.

Keywords

Human rights, Internet, Multimedia learning, Global competency, Information Literacy

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Frigo, Stefanie, "Abusing Our Human Rights: The Truth, the Internet and a Multi-Media Approach to Connecting Global Cultures" (2009). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 39.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2009/2009/39