In March 2007 I co-led a faculty workshop with the University of Redlands's Instructional Technology Services Manager. The workshop was titled Moving from Information Literacy to Media Literacy and was advertised as follows: With the introduction of various online video sites, including YouTube and Google Video, the resources our students are drawing on for course projects have evolved drastically in just the last few years. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to explore these popular video sites. Shana Higgins, from the Armacost Library, will guide a discussion of how we begin to re-imagine information literacy instruction to address media literacy issues.

My goal was to connect what librarians do in a traditional one-shot instruction session with media literacy (in particular, discussing the kinds of sources undergraduate students are using from the World Wide Web), while my partner demonstrated how to actually use YouTube. Here is a revised version of the accompanying PowerPoint presentation:InfoLitToMediaLit