Information Literacy

1. Finding

1.1. What sort of information do I want? Pictures? Interviews? Websites?

1.2. Where could I find this information? Library? Person? Computer?

1.3. Can I find this information using catalogues, computers, electronic resources?

2. Deciding

2.1. What is it I need to know?

2.2. What am I going to do with the info?

2.3. What do I already know?

2.4. What do I need to find out?

3. Recording

3.1. What do I need to make a note of?

3.2. Can I use layout, tabulation, punctuation, diagrams?

3.3. Can I organise my notes by indexing and filing them?

4. Using

4.1. What do these resources tell me about what I need to know?

4.2. Do I have the skills to extract the info using skimming, scanning, keywords?

5. Evaluating

5.1. How did I go?

5.2. Am I satisfied with the result?

5.3. Am I happy with the way I got there?

5.4. How might I do it differently next time?

6. Presenting

6.1. What tools can I use for presenting?

6.2. How am I going to pull this information together and present it so that the main points come across clearly?