Members' Sharing Session presentation delivered by Emma Thompson at the 2009 BBSLG Conference hosted by the Irish Management Institute, 1-3 July 2009.

1. Emma Thompson

2. Context
• First semester, first year BSc e-Business (30 students)
• Low module grades for previous cohorts
• Dependence on free information sources

3. What we did
 Seminar 1 – (Librarian) Information Literacy (AKA
finding quality sources for your assignment)
 Seminar 2 – (Lecturer) How to approach academic
reading
 Hands on Workshop
 Introduction of the H2O Playlist tool

4. What the students did
• reading for the assignment
• creation of assessed Playlist
• written assignment
• and… continued use of H2O beyond this

5. http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/
“a shared list of readings and other
content about a topic of intellectual
interest”

6. Student playlist

7. Tutor comments

8. Analysis of each article found

10. Marks Comparison

11. Reflections
• Google Generation report
http://tiny.cc/f1U71
• Good IT literacy - poor
information literacy
• Information Literacy
teaching – best by stealth!

12. Any questions?
emma.thompson@liv.ac.uk