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 Looking for the Missing Piece: an exploration of the place for Visual Literacy Instruction in a Teacher Education Program  
Project Background:

 EDCI 2020 Seminar on Educational Technology and Information Literacy  
 Lynn Laakkonen, Instructor
2006-2007

>  1-hour course

>  offered each semester

 >  required for the Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education; students enrolled are usually preparing for admission to the  LSUA Professional Teacher Education Program.

>  addresses information literacy standards; instruction is incorporated into course

>  addresses INTASC Principles

> addresses (LCET) Louisiana K-12 Educational Technology Standards

>  is often students’ first encounter with college-level research, production software, with electronic resources (particularly the subscription databases,) and with education concepts. 

 Ms. Laakkonen designed an active learning experience that required students to work in groups to
1) explore a wide variety of electronic resources available for educators, particularly those available to teachers in Louisiana and 
2) use software to produce a visual format message (an "advertisement or commercial") for one or more of the electronic resources for the other students/ "consumers" in their class  and
3) to inform other students and demonstrate the producing groups' understanding of the content, purpose, and professional use of a particular electronic resource.

List of electronic resources prepared by Debra Rollins for  EDCI 2020	Assignment created by Lynn Laakkonen for EDCI 2020; (sample student products)
(some resources are only available by subscription with passwords)	Return to Main Page

Ms. Laakkonen invited me to collaborate on more effective ways to incorporate information literacy goals with other course goals to create a more effective learning experience.  Her subsequent assignment and her enthusiastic and innovative collaboration inspired her students' projects and this presentation.  More importantly, it reflects her appreciation of the importance of developing students' competence in Information Literacy. 

Debra Cox Rollins
Revised: June 21, 2007