Information Literacy

1. Deciding

1.1. What is it I need to know?

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

1.3. What do I already know?

1.4. What do I need to find out?

2. Using

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

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

3. Presenting

3.1. What tools can I use for presenting?

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

4. Finding

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

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

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

5. Recording

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

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

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

6. Evaluating

6.1. How did I go?

6.2. Am I satisfied with the result?

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

6.4. How might I do it differently next time?