Week 7 - Information Literacy Guide

Christen Lawicki

New Media and New Literacies

Information Literacy Guide

This information literacy guide is geared towards upper elementary students, for grades three to five (but could be used for older grades, as well).  The focus of the guide is to show students different tools they can use to create presentations for research they conduct.  It also explains how students can publish their presented work so that they can continue to share with other people on a larger scale (this is done along the lines of there being a classroom blog that students can access).  This guide offers a smaller list of choices for presentation and sharing tools, as it is meant for a younger audience.  The tools listed do not have any type of age restriction, as a number of online resources do.  The point of this is to help young students get their feet wet and start exploring different digital resources so that they can see there are many different ways they can create presentations.  (The only note to keep in mind is that some websites do require an e-mail address, so this would only work if the students had one set up with the school).

Elementary Presentation Guide

Sharing your work with others in different ways

Once you have worked hard, done your research, and have become an expert on a topic, how can you share your work with others? Instead of just telling others about what you learned, create an exciting presentation to show them! 

Here are some tools you can use to make a unique presentation and engage others in your work:

PowerPoint Presentation

• This allows you to create a slideshow with your information that you can customize in different ways.  You can use different colors, fonts, transitions, add pictures, audio, and even video clips!
• This is a program that is on the computer and you do not need to sign up for

Prezi

• Prezi is similar to PowerPoint, but creates a different looking presentation.  Instead of slides, you have a pathway that zooms around different parts of a larger picture.  There are different themes you can choose from to really add excitement and connect to your presentation topic!
• This is a website that you need to create a free account for: https://prezi.com

Powtoon

• Powtoon is a fun way to make a presentation that adds a little something extra and goes a step further than PowerPoint and Prezi…it helps you create an animated presentation!  Using the templates, you can create a short video presentation.  Instead of just slides, your whole presentation is a video with animation and music.
• This is a website that you need to create a free account for: https://www.powtoon.com

Video Presentation

• If you are feeling adventurous, another way to present information is to create your own video!  You can record yourself speaking, take videos of different places and things, and even interview others (with their permission, of course). 
• You would create this video using our classroom iPad and upload the video onto the computer.  

Once you have created your own presentation, you can share it with the whole class by adding it to our classroom blog!  This way, everyone in the class can see all of your hard work and you can go back and show others what you have researched.