Learning Objects, Learning Activities (LOLA): A Collaborative Referatory for Information Literacy Modules and Other Discipline-Specific Materials Michael Roy Director of Academic Computing Services Barbara Jones Caleb T. Winchester University Librarian Wesleyan University

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Catalog of learning object repositories using Merlot We will be using Merlot’s catalog to create a set of links to other learning object respositories.

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MORE LEARNING OBJECTS Long Island Sound - Ocean Tides Simulation

MORE LEARNING OBJECTS Connecticut River Tides Simulation

MORE LEARNING OBJECTS Turbidity Currents Demonstration Movies

MORE LEARNING OBJECTS Protein Synthesis

MORE LEARNING OBJECTS Music in the Afghan North - web site

MORE LEARNING OBJECTS See the Wesleyan Learning Objects Web Site…

List of Information Literacy Modules 1. Working with Special Collections: On the Sublime, Picturesque and Romantic Art History 2.Information Literacy for Engineering Students: Engineering 3.Chemical Literacy: A Role Playing Game (Group Project) Dept.: Chemistry; Project 4.Math for the 21 Century: Web Modules Dept.: Mathematics 5. Information Literacy for Education Majors 6.finding, reading, and displaying geospatial data ees 7.Bibliography and citation conventions using EndNote engl 8.Distinguishing primary from secondary sourcesengl 9.Working with reference sources phil 10.Qunatitative Reasoning and the Social Sciences 11.The information cycle 12.Evaluating (web) resources engl 13.Using the oed wesleyanengl 14.Reading Historical and political maps, history 15.Literature Review: Sociology 16.Making Web pages for collaboration, Sociology 17.Copyright and the legal use of information 18.Annotated bibliography 19.Information Literacy for English Majors Dept.: English; 20.Information Literacy in American Public Policy Program: Public Policy 21.First Year Program: Information Literacy Sessions Program: First Year

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Join LOLA

Why LOLA and not Merlot? Quality control Focus on Information Literacy Complete control over data model Complete control over user interface Will be federated with Merlot (and others)

LOLA Worksheet Name________________________________ ________________________________ Institution_____________________________ Do people at your institution make Information Literacy Modules that might be listed within LOLA? If so, what kinds? (URLs?) What would be an incentive that would get your institution to record and/or make modules within LOLA? What problems do you think we will have trying to get people to record their Information Literacy Modules within LOLA? Are there other initiatives that we ought to be aware of? Sign-up for the LOLA mailing list?

Contact info/additional info Barbara Jones, Mike Roy,

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