Hi everyone,
Just wanted to tell you what I've got for the lesson plan:
Phase one: Library skills - involving an introduction of what the school library offers, a run-through of Dewey and cataloguing skills (how to use it). I thought I'd also start Ali's web skills idea here, with a guide to online reference sites (ie not wikipedia!!!!!).CILIP have defined the outcome of stage one as 'Accesses pictorial information with support' - handy. I've taken that to mean basic IL skills, but I thought an intro to the web should come as early as possible.
Phase two: Web skills - Looking at the difference between sources, examples of different search engines and techniques (toying with mentioning Boolean, but maybe it's too complicated for this stage?). Again, CILIP have the outcome as 'accesses and reproduces basic information. Scans text for specific information. Employs key words'. I like the idea of a test, I'm thinking about including a basic search and seeing how many different answers are available. I'll decide by tomorrow anyway, but let me know what you think.
Sean, I've just left everything pretty basic but if you want the third phase to be more advanced than I've allowed for, or if you want me to mention something that you want to reiterate, again just let me know.
Hope you're all getting on ok - not long now!!!
Eilidh
