Season 2, Episode 6

We know this episode is coming fast on the heels of our last one and it’s not posting on our usual Friday, but we wanted to make sure we got this up before the end of the year! This week, Jen and Martinique talk to Tish Hayes, Information Literacy Librarian at Moraine Valley Community College and one of the organizers of the Information Literacy Summit, a day-long conference in the Chicago suburbs focused on information literacy. We discuss the history of the Summit, some of the challenges of planning it, what the organizers see for the future, what they are looking for in proposals for 2019, as well as how we all are grappling with the idea of news literacy (the 2019 Summit theme) at our own institutions. Jen and Martinique love this conference, and we thoroughly enjoyed hearing about what goes into planning it. Have a listen!

Click here to listen to Season 2, Episode 6

Want to find out more or see one of the resources mentioned in the episode? Click the links below.

Information Literacy Summit

The Summit will be held April 5, 2019 at the Moraine Valley Community College campus in Palos Hills, IL. The call for proposals is open until January 11, 2019. Get those submissions in!

Circulating Ideas 

Tish’s colleague Troy Swanson has been doing a series on the Circulating Ideas podcast about news literacy. All the episodes are worth a listen, particularly his interview with 2019 Summit Keynote Dr. Nicole Cooke.

Project Information Literacy

We discussed the PIL study on news literacy and how it helps us understand more about how our students view, use, and make meaning from news.

Process Cards

Tish mentioned using Kevin Seeber’s Process Cards to explore news and literacy with students at her College.