welcome everyone to The Institute of Museum and Library Services information
literacy. goov training webinar I'm Cindy Landrum acting director of The
Institute of Museum and Library Services what brings us together today
is a shared goal to enable communities Across the Nation to enrich their lives
through resource and skills that help them to navigate an information abundant
world this is not just the mission of imls as a single federal agency in
2022 imls brought together more than 15 federal agencies with robust information
literacy programs and assistance to form a federal information literacy task
force as directed by Congress supporting local communities has been
the focus of the task force engagement and its work and by
extension local museums and libraries are uniquely situated as Community
Learning spaces that address their community's unique information literacy
needs information literacy. goov is a result of the collaborative effort of
imls and the task force to support you in your efforts to meet the information
literacy needs in your community it is my pleasure to hand off
to my colleague Katherine Moss I ls's Chief of Staff whose leadership brings
us to this point
Catherine thank you so much Cindy um for that introduction um my name is
Katherine moss and I'm the Chief of Staff here at imls I'm excited to be
here today to share what is currently on the site and how you can use it to
address Community Information literacy needs in a variety of ways I'm going to
start by sharing my
screen go and I want to build on Cindy's introduction um by starting with our
about page here uh which has more information about
information literacy. goov this initiative and also the task
force as Cindy mentioned um this inter agency task force is made up of agencies
that provide comprehensive and robust information literacy programs Andor
federal financial assistance like grants available to communities across the
country for doing this type of work can read more about them
here so so over the last two years um IMS has worked with the task force to
hold convenings and listening sessions to understand what type of resources and
toolkits are available for this work and how we might pull them together in a way
that makes sense and allows for multiple points of Entry we know that some of you
have been working on information literacy related work for a number of
years for others this may be brand new or you may not even talk about what you
do in terms of information literacy at all so with this site we aim to provide
an approach to building information literacy our journey to information
literacy page here here some shared definitions and we know that definitions
can be difficult to to come to so we have sh we are sharing our definitions
um so we're all starting in sort of the same place and then also resources and
tools which we'll go we'll go through all of this in more detail here um and
all of this is intended to empower people in communities across the country
to change how we understand analyze and use information about ourselves our
health our finances our use of the internet and the world around
us so currently the site is directed at Museum and Library professionals as
you'll see in the header here to support you all in this work in your communities
but the tools and resources available here can be used used by other community
leaders of other types tackling information literacy
needs the site currently focuses on four areas of
literacy information literacy health literacy financial literacy and digital
literacy and Now features over a hundred resources on these topics from lesson
plans and programs to training resources and unique offerings such as a graphic
novel about Miss and disinformation and Interactive about social media
manipulation we will be going through more of these tools and resources in
much more detail throughout the remainder of this webinar but I wanted
to start with a brief overview of the navigation and layout of the site so
from the homepage you can navigate to the journey to information literacy page
as well as training resources for professionals and Community engagement
materials more on those later the individual Pages for information help
financial and digital literacy as we already showed and Community spotlights
click on this one and these are intended to spark
ideas and allow you to make connections to other practitioners so the spotlight
page provides each page each individual page um provides details on successful
information literacy programs it has an overview and fast
facts here some details about funding size type of
community and reach there's a Q&A about addressing
Community needs the program's funding and
Partnerships measuring impact and also advice on implementing a
similar program as well as contact information as well so we're in the
process of developing and posting more Community spotlights very soon um you
may note when you look through these these current three um they are all
fairly large especially for those of you who are in the very small kind of space
small and Rural kind of space in particular um so we are collecting more
spotlights um to Showcase a wider variety of Institutions and programs um
sharing successful examples Lessons Learned and challenges faced from um
particularly those smaller and Rural institutions and
programs one last important area um before we dive into the indiv visual
literacy Pages um I want to draw your attention to the resource database sorry
resource database page here this lists all of the resources
available on the site um so you can scroll through I won't scroll down since
there's over a hundred um but you can scroll through the full list you can
search for all of the resources by keyword here at the top and you can also
filter um for different types of literacy and also by the language of the
resources throughout this work on the initiative um we have noted how vital it
is to have a foundation of trust and I know talking to some of you that is very
very important um in the the work that you do in community is absolutely
foundational and we wanted to reflect that that importance of trust and
trustworthiness on the site itself U by sharing here under resource
evaluation or just went um how we collect and evaluate resources
to be included on the site so you'll note here um a primary source of
resources is the task force and you'll see that today we have a guest speaker
from the CDC we also identify resources through
online searches and talking to practitioners um but we'd also love to
hear from you if you want to would like to recommend a resource um or ask for
particular areas um of of resources that we that you may not see that you're
interested in in having as well and so for all of our potential
resources uh we use five general sets of criteria here first is it from a
trustworthy source is the resource relevant to the
work is it based on objective evidence and is it tailored to its intended
audience and is it accessible
um all of the resources included Ed satisfy at least three of these five
criteria and regardless of of where they land with the criteria we talk about
them um and and carefully consider each resource and and whether it aligns
overall with the purpose um and even if it doesn't meet all the criteria and the
way that we would potentially like is it still worth including because it's of
high value in other in other areas and I want to note one important
item about the fifth Criterion here is whether it is accessible has a lot of
different meanings um to us and to you I'm sure um but I just wanted to note
the reference to open access and free resources here we have highly
prioritized making sure that the resources we link to are free and open
access but you will see a small number of resources that do require a free
account of some kind or a modest fee um and we are continuing to make sure that
we're minimizing resources that have those types of requirements um and also
identify when they do in the description I'll show you an example of a
description in a moment if the resource does require an account or does have a
fee so that you know before you even click on it um that that will be
required so to kick off our discussion of the more specific literacy pages I
want to share the information literacy page
here so you'll see here for all four of these Pages the basic layout um for
these pages about specific types of literacy there's a definition at the
top a discussion of why teaching these skills is important and the impact that
it can have on people's lives then featured resource
and um res more resources and toolkits organized roughly by type including
lesson plans and programs I wanted to click
on let's see yeah there's another one I want to click on further on so lesson
plans and programs here more resources including in this
case this is an EPA the game of energy choices um which
is a which is an interesting one I've got it open here um and it is a it is a
it is a resource about exploring energy choices and thinking about um
understanding better environmental challenges um and impacts on the
environment so that's one example of one of the maybe more unique
ones there are training resources for professionals on each on each of these
landing pages including data and maps in some cases to help understand literacy
needs in your community which can be really helpful
and interesting depending on what you're working
on I want to call special attention to the communicating science clearly
resource um from our task force agency the CDC you'll be hearing from Sarah in
just a moment um you'll see here an example of in the description where I
mentioned before about um if you need to set up an account you'll see an example
here um in the description of needing to set up a free account in order to use
this particular training and Sarah will touch on this as well um but here's just
an example of of that there are also on each landing page
evalu evaluation resources where applicable link to um funding
opportunities for particular areas if applicable and finally each page has
real world examples um with links to more about specific projects um that
have been undertaken by um by communities and institutions across the
country so with that I'm going to stop sharing and I'm going to turn it over to
Sarah Bedrosian from the CDC to talk more about the financial literacy uh
resources on the site Sarah go ahead thank you Katherine and I believe you
meant to say health literacy is that correct um I did my script from
yesterday I'm I'm not really prepared for financial literacy
to so thank you so much for that introduction I'm really really happy to
be here um my name is Sarah pzi and I am in the office of communications at CDC
and um um basically I've been a very proud member of the information literacy
task force for it might be over almost two years now but it's it definitely
feels like it's been a nice journey and um it's really been very exciting to see
the process behind the scenes in terms of and maybe you all have been part of
some of that process in terms of like the community engagement that went into
the development of this resource to make sure that it's useful and I think that
um that approach will continue so it's really great that you're here today and
that you're going to stay involved and let us know what we could do better and
what you need um so with that let me go ahead and share my screen if I can
figure out how to there we go um and I will share the information
literacy screen and hopefully you're now seeing
it um so basically here's our homepage and um there are many ways to get to all
the information that you might need as Katherine mentioned um there there this
is a really great site in terms of being able to you know if you don't know what
you're looking for it can help you find what you're looking for like lead you in
there with some recommended resources but you can also go right to the
resource section as well as the search feature if you're pretty sure you know
what you're looking for so um basically I'm going to go to the resource section
and I'm going to choose health literacy because that's what I'm going to be
talking about today um and basically just as Katherine said the um there's a
nice definition here and I would just add that for for CDC our definition of
health literacy and for HHS also the Health and Human Services which is our
our parent organization and the federal government um basically uh we look at
health literacy as a two twart definition so we're not just focused on
the ability of a particular group that we're trying to that we're trying to
reach or trying to communicate with in terms of their ability to be literate or
to understand what we're saying we also look at organizational health literacy
which is when the organization you know and in this case
CDC we really try to make things more clear and easy for people to understand
so that they don't necessarily we're not focusing on a deficiency we're also
looking at ourselves and trying to make sure we're very clear because we do know
that when when people especially in an emergency and CDC we're often involved
in emergency Health responses um you know basically people's ability
to take in information goes down and so as a result of that if we make our
information extremely clear if we use active voice and if we um put our main
message first and try to not have a complex message but rather a simple
message that that is what's going to help everybody understand our
information especially when they're panicked when they're rushed when
they're trying quickly to find the information that they can actually use
to make themselves healthy and and keep themselves safe so
um and um yes there there are many things that we're doing at CDC and at
HHS in terms of reaching people who are Ally underserved or who are in rural
areas perhaps people whose first language is in English um we've just um
been part of a launch of a language access plan that includes um ASL and um
basically like making information clearer for people so it's really this
is not only the law for us this is also like a a scientific imperative to make
sure that our information is as clear as it can be and we're it's work in
progress so anyway so U basically this is something that you can yourselves use
to make your messages clearer as well as helping people also to understand this
and to use some of these tools so I'll just um scroll down the page a little
bit um and I I just like to mention um that I wanted to thank uh Katherine for
highlighting our communicating science clearly course that is a three-hour
self-guided course course that um is free to anybody and um even though it
says it's focused on public health professionals we we really consider all
of you to be part of our um our team you're on our team in terms of um we
need you to to think of yourselves in the same way like you are all carrying
out the mission of helping the American public so we really thank you for that I
really encourage you to take that particular class it's self-guided and
it's it's very easy you could stop it and start it it's three hours long but
um you know it's it's it's an it's fun so I really do encourage you to take
that one and um and then I would just want to take a couple of looks here um
in terms of like some of the CDC resources that we have we have this
other course that is on um this is on um our site this is basically our health
literacy main health literacy site there are tons of tools on here the
communicating science clearly course you can find it right here there's also
health literacy for public health professionals as as as I said I do
consider you all to be part of our team of public health professionals because
you are on our fright lines working with the public and and you are just so
important um so so when you click on one of these you'll see that um it will take
you to CDC train and if you don't have an account you need to create one but
it's free free free and once you do this you don't have to keep logging in if you
set it up that way you can just go on in so
um basically uh there we go let's go back
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um though here's the other course the health literacy for public health
professionals um we'd love for you to take that one as well and I do think
that these courses are extremely empowering they will help you to feel
more confident when you're speaking to a person or in front of a group you know
they will help you to feel like you're your very best um so um I really think
that they will be helpful for you um but please let us know if there's anything
that could be um um done to make it better
um basically we also have a plain language resource site which is uh uh
basically has a lot of resources it has tools that you can use these are free um
there's everyday words which lets you kind it's like a jargon Buster it
basically is like a thesaurus for I'm I want to get rid of this jargon and all
of our but I don't know what's the appropriate word or wording to use to
replace this thing can help you it's really great we're always updating it um
we we have some examples of plain language materials including information
for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and care
providers so if you wanted to create some materials but you weren't sure that
you had ever seen something like that you can take a look um there's a nice
plain language checklist that helps you these are really the basics for health
literacy if you apply all these to all of your writings and your speaking you
will do really well so I will go back and um back again and then um this
is something that um this this is a John's Hopkins playbook for addressing
Health misinformation I know this is an incredibly important topic for all of
you um because Health misinformation does reduce trust people just don't know
what to believe when they hear all sorts of contradictory information so this
resource was actually funded by CDC and we worked closely with them to develop
this and um this I think this would be really really help helpful for you um it
has a lot of great information in it um so I encourage you to check that out as
well and um we also have a Visual Communications resource which um
basically gives you some help for figuring out the best way to make a
visual image that gets your point across and there's information here about
making data talk from the NIH um you know equity and awareness and
data visualization and teaching patients with low literacy skills so um I really
think this would also be a very useful resource um so that's why we wanted to
highlight it for you and then um at the end of the day you're like well this is
great but I don't know exactly what I need but CDC said they had something
well then you can just go up to the search button and you can ask for CDC
and then all the resources we just looked at are right there and I'm I know
that as time goes on um the task force will continue to change and add
materials as they become available so um I encourage you to keep looking at this
resource I think it's going to be a great one but we really do want to hear
how it works for you how it doesn't work and I think with that I will say thank
you and pass it back to Katherine correct yes that's right thank you so
much for going through all those great resources Sarah there's so much great
stuff out there from CDC in particular thanks for the opportunity yeah
absolutely absolutely so with that I'm going to
turn it over
to Ron howy from the FDIC to talk more about financial
literacy and some of the resources on the site
Ron okay thank you very much C Catherine well done and I'm going to no that's not
what I want to do what I want to do is take take the
um let's try it again let's try to share my
screen and let us let us actually share it so now you should see it right
Katherine okay so here we go um thank you for the opportunity by the way I am
LS and my name is Ron haigi and I'm with the FDIC you may have heard that uh
nomenclature before we're the ones who ensure your savings accounts at
Banks and uh you'll see us featured on this
website along with other resources so why financial literacy and
why is it a a component of this platform well the the market says there's for
every $15 worth of uh advertising on financial products and services there's
about a dollar is worth of real education that includes anything from
instructor-led curricula to posters um so there's a disparity in the
ratio what you'll find on this component of the website though you won't see any
propaganda you won't see any encouragement of one product over
another one service over another one company over Another One bank over
another um it is basically neutral non-biased information meant to
empower folks and to increase their financial
capability so FDIC um emphasizes these these resources as really much needed
unbiased information um for consumers across the country I'm going to go
through a few of them here um there is the money
smart program um which is a financial education curriculum designed to help
people of all ages enhance their financial skills and
create positive banking relationships um I believe that's nope I forgot to close
that one and that one there we go money smart um so there are there's a a
variety of products for an array of different sort of constituencies here um
you can learn how to teach financial literacy to others um for grade school
age uh to older adults some of the resources are geared towards teachers
who are trained to teach um and others are geared for people who are not
professional instructors or certified teachers um but still might want to to
to teach um teach people in their in their communities so that's one great
resource the sort of accompanying piece there's
an accompanying piece um which includes some more uh sort of games and other
other resources how money smart are you which is a suite of interactive games um
based on the money smart program that sort of accompanies
it there is also the mymoney.gov um which is a resource from the
financial literacy and education commission or Fleck which is made up of
more than 24 Federal entities that coordinate and collaborate to strengthen
Financial capability and increase access to financial services for all Americans
and this commission um includes several infolit task Force members including the
FDIC um and there is some great information um for researchers for
teachers for others looking to learn more um especially about empowering
youth um for for doing this work and trying to uh to help in this
space there is also fdic's consumer Resource
Center uh which complements sort of basic Financial literacy providing
information and resources to educate and protect consumers promote economic
inclusion and connect people with financial resources and their
communities that is right here consumer Resource Center so that is
fdic's and that has you know just even something as basic as how to submit a
complaint um or figure you know how to get help um you know as I mentioned they
are um you know we know that fraud is a is a a huge problem um and they are
committed to to helping in that space there is also FDI resource get banked
which is here on the consumer Resource page itself but is also right here on
our site it's a collaboration with financial
institutions local governments and Community organizations to raise
awareness about the benefits of bank account ownership um so that is
available in a couple of couple of different places
and back on our site that's all under resources to use and
share there are also under under training resources for professionals
there is also this it's a
survey it's a 2021 National survey of unbanked and underbanked households that
the FDIC held um and they this is also get banked here we go um this is really
interesting there's you can find the um the results and the key findings and the
implications of this uh this National survey from a few years ago um which may
help you to understand your community Better Community needs better um and is
a really interesting resource for being able to do
that and finally for this section under real world examples at the
bottom there's an example from the money smart newsletter about
friends against from a couple of years ago but it's about uh friends against
fraud which is a workshop created by the Elder Justice Committee in uh Guilford
County in North Carolina um and they work to to teach older residents how to
protect themselves and their friends from becoming victims of
fraud so that is the financial section going to now turn to the digital
literacy section so this is the final focused
literacy era um and I know many of you are are
involved in the digital literacy space um um this is the ability to use the
internet and other digital tools to find accurate information and apply that
information to our own lives and I know this comes up um overlapping with
sometimes with media literacy as we are confronted with more and more AI every
day um this is a very important and growing area as
well um so these digital literacy skills that were that are are highlighted on
the site um can help to give everyone the skills they need to navigate online
information so we have here same structure um lesson plans um to help
students teach students of different ages how to evaluate information online
um I mentioned earlier this is under resources to use and share I mentioned
earlier graphic novel about Miss and disinformation um which is available
here this is develop veled by the cyber security and infrastructure agency or
sisa which is another Task Force member agency and this can be paired with their
fact sheets got it pulled up here tactics of
Miss and disin tactics of disinformation fact sheet as well which is quite likely
um but it it does complement um complement the graphic novel and they
they sisa does a lot of work in the the miss and disinformation space
particularly online um so there's some great res sources here as
well back on the landing page training
resources and under real world examples I wanted to point to the digital
Navigators toolkit this is an imls funded uh project which many of you may
be familiar with um Salt Lake City Public libraries digital Navigators
program um that helps helps low-income older adults and families get set up
with devices learn basic digital skills um and this is a way that you can you
can adapt these apply these lessons um to developing your own digital literacy
programming and now now that we've looked through um all the different
literacy areas and types of resources available I want to draw your attention
to the last tab that we haven't delved into yet which is the journey to
information literacy tab here so this includes also training resources for
professionals as well as Community engagement materials which we'll get to
as we go through here so building on some of what we
heard during our convenings and listening sessions last year we wanted
to provide a bit of a guide for approaching this work if this is
something that is new to you um and or your institution or if you are just
trying to tackle something new even if you you have some um have done some work
already um in this kind of space so as we all know Journeys are
messy um and you may be inter entering this Journey at different points um so
the steps and guidance on this page are intended to be adapted for where you are
what you need and for what you are trying to do we also understand you may
be joining the journey at different points um depending on what you are
trying to do and the resources and toolkits available on the rest of the
site that we just looked over are intended to help you in each of these
steps so for those of you working continually in the sort of General
community in engagement space um the steps on this journey here on the left
the nav bar on the left um will not be unfamiliar so the first step is to know
your community learning about your community needs second is design and
approach third develop Partnerships and find funding and fourth evaluate and
sustain information literacy efforts so we go down the page you will
see that each step on the journey has details about how other institutions
tackled this work called real life examples and that shares a little bit
more detail about um how how different institutions um sort of addressed these
particular steps as they as they went through another important set of
resources on this journey page are these special additional resources um that you
can adapt for your own programming so I want to take a moment to talk about
these These are the tools to teach tools to engage these are the same from this
drop down up here so the tools to
teach you go tools to teach takes you to the training resources for professionals
page this page has sample lesson plans and accompanying worksheets
available as both PDFs and Word Documents the latter so you can edit
them according to what you need I've downloaded the examples of the financial
literacy lesson plan here so you can see it's about nine or 10 pages for each one
um with different lesson plans that you can that you can tailor um and then an
accompanying worksheet that includes um depending on the which type of resource
it is um which type of which area of literacy it is different um different
sort of checklist kinds of information um and
also each one has um has a sort of quiz with answers um that allows you to as a
partner to the uh to the lesson plan and again these are all also
available as Word documents that you can edit for your own
use there is also a partnership engagement Tip Sheet close these out
here at the bottom and this I want to take a moment
on this because um I know many of you I think engage with Partners all the time
um and so some of this is going to be uh of basic basic information that you may
already feel like you know there is also and if you don't then please use it um
there are also though unique to this particular um specific suggestions for
particular literacy types as well some of them connect to some of the resources
we've talked to talked about today um and some others um that are specific to
the site or included on this site I'm sorry um or suggestions of particular
types of partners that you might want to reach out to for example for under
financial literacy many banks have community outreach programs um because
Banks also want us to trust the financial system um so if you haven't
haven't reached out to Banks there may be some in your community that might be
helpful and the same there are specific suggestions for health literacy Partners
um and ways to reach out um and or suggestions for reaching out in
different different areas there at the bottom here of this Tip Sheet sheet
there is also a uh template for an email to reach out to to a potential partner
um if that's something that is helpful for you um to be able to have something
to start with to adapt to what you're doing so that is this Partners
engagement Tip Sheet at the bottom here the tools to
engage
here takes you to the community engagement materials which is this dro
down here this page has a wealth of items to
use in communicating about information and other literacy programming that you
might be doing so there's an information literacy project FAQ about this
initiative there is also this real versus fake information checklist and
how to spot trustworthy information online fact sheet those are
here so here is the factor fiction the fact sheet for spotting trustworthy
information and the the accompanying
checklist that's just a a sort of easy resource to be able to use so both of
those are available here and there are a lot more materials
that you can adapt for your own programming um including Flyers here uh
we know that not everybody is communicating about your programming um
only online um many people still need flyers paper Flyers to put up in your
institutions or around your communities um and that that's the best way to reach
your audiences so these are Word document Flyers that you can use and
adapt there's also a marketing email template um that you can adapt and draft
social media messaging uh which then accompany Graphics whole variety of
Graphics here for Facebook LinkedIn Instagram and x and I'm going to stop
sharing for just a moment so I can pull up some of those
examples they download as JPEG so I had to do that here we go so these are the
um different examples of social media Graphics um different types with our
branding and in information about information literacy duck
of um and I just want to note about all of those adaptable materials on that
Community engagement site are part of the site that they are all in the public
domain um so they are available for you to edit and use as you would like um
they all have as I just noted the uh information literacy. goov website and
the imls logo on them so you don't need to site your Source materials um or
acknowledge Us in any other way um you are just free to free to use them they
are they are for you to use so that's it for our um overview and
we now have time for some questions um I know some of you have been putting
questions into the Q&A and I'll turn to those now um if you haven't yet and
would like to please use the use the Q&A box to submit your questions and I'm
going to get started if there are ones related to Sarah we'll ask her to come
back um on but I'm gonna just sort of sort of get started um I see some
questions about um sort of what's coming next and what we might be what we might
be doing next or at least some questions that I can address by talking about what
we might be doing next um we've I talked quite a bit about different um age
groups at this time there is no way to filter
by age group somebody asked that question um but that is something that
we are actively considering I've heard that from a couple of different um
different people and places um that that is a useful thing so we're going to be
be looking into doing that because I think that's um I think that is as we
are um as we're moving forward and getting more and more resources that's
something that could be really helpful so we will be doing that um we are are
actively updating the site um when I was first preparing for this last week we
had fewer than a 100 resources when I checked again yesterday we have over a
hundred so we are adding um every month we are adding more um adding more uh
resources we are also actively working on adding non- language um both both the
content of the site and resources um that link from the site I'm going to
pull back up my screen so I can show that
again so going back to the beginning of the presentation under the resource
database may remember there are ways to um filter by resource languages so these
are the languages that what we are linking to are available in um you'll
notice a lot of English some Spanish and then some smaller numbers of other of
other items we are actively working to also include more non-english um
resources that we are linking to we are also close to having the site itself be
available in Spanish at the click of a button um and that would be everything
that that is on the site that we that we control on the site itself all of the
the language around um Journey resources Community spotlights all of that um will
be available in Spanish as well
um if people have if you have suggestions about resources please feel
free to to um to contact us about that I should I can note here con there's a
contact us form um that's available both in the header and also in the footer um
and as you can see here you can also directly email infolit at IM ls. goov
we'll share that again at the end but that is available um and as I as I
mentioned earlier all of the potential resources um go through this resource
evaluation um process um before we put anything on the site but if you have
something um something that you'd be interested in in sharing or think would
be good please do
that um some of the other areas that we're kind of interested in exploring
this gets again to kind of where where we think where we think we're going um
we have a lot of um we've had a lot of interest in in
science literacy um and you I the the EPA game of energy choices that I shared
at the beginning is one of those um that we already have on the s it um Beyond
health information sort of science literacy health literacy I'm sorry
science literacy more generally um sometimes that's getting Into Climate
literacy planetary literacy environmental literacy um but thinking
about science uh science literacy more generally is an area that we're actively
moving into um adding more resources and really focusing in on on a definition of
that and sort of um thinking about how we include that more um concretely on
the site we're also thinking in the sort of Civic literacy space um civic
education and Civic literacy um which gets to sort of foundational um ideas
around how we live in society right um and can address some of the the miss and
disinformation in that kind of space uh let me
see somebody asked about um whether the the URLs will be available after the
presentation they are all on the site um so we are recording this webinar we
had held another one yesterday afternoon that we also recorded we will be posting
those on our uh YouTube on ims's YouTube channel and then soon hopefully putting
them on the information literacy. goov site itself um so that you can review if
there are specific areas that you want to go back to what we talked about you
can see that um but they are also all available um on on the site itself
ah question about editing options for the lesson plans um that's a yeah
somebody doesn't have Microsoft Word good point um let we will be thinking
more about um what format might be helpful um in terms of all of those
resources that we are intending to have you use and edit um I will take that
we'll take that under consideration because that's that's a great point if
that's if that's the intention and you can't do it um we need to make sure that
we're addressing that
and I see some more specific questions about rural communities interesting
um I'm trying to let me to see if there's any
other I don't see any other questions that I haven't answered yet I hope um
let me see what happens for this rural question let me see what happens if I
type in rural let's see if there's anything there it's not a it's not a
checkbox yet and that's something else that might be a filter rather that might
be interesting um for uh thinking about Community types um it might get
complicated uh but I think that's uh but it is something worth considering um for
those of you who might be coming from a very specific type of community that
having that easily findable would be very good um ah yes I remember this one
so this popped up with a few different resources um and I know the person who's
asking worked for a history organization so I'm not sure that that will
necessarily help um but I know that there are a few different places where
rural is called out um and we will I'll inquire about you can also reach out to
us directly um and I'll see if there are are other rural resources particularly
for history organizations um that we could point you
to um since these are the only ones popping up here this uh leap into
science is one of the this is the community Spotlight um that I actually
talked about too um so this might be interesting it's it's not history
related not um sort of civics related potentially what you're depending on
what you're interested in um but this is this may have some connections to some
of those rural uh those rural uh particular rural
needs I'm GNA see I don't see other questions please ask them we have a few
minutes um we can also just wrap up as soon as we're ready um but I just want
to make sure we do get any anybody's questions answered
I'm seeing some questions I'm going to sort of start from the bottom but I'll
skip around a little bit um somebody has some questions about uh the ah the word
document for the like the worksheet and other things how do we give credit to
the original document that we provided that is a great question um and you are
absolutely allowed to adapt the resources I believe and perhaps um one
of my colleagues can can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that um if you
adapt it you can still include information literacy. goov at the bottom
um which still gives us sort of credit for or takes takes the user to um to our
site um which still sort of connects it to the overall adiss so I would say
that's a that's a that's a good one on that um couple that I pulled out already
I believe I answered the question about um open access and proprietary um so I
hope I answered that question let me know if I didn't um we're definitely
moving you know mostly in OB ACC say um see what else we've got we've
got some specific questions about ahome questions about uh translation great
question so um you may have noticed uh when I was sharing the resource database
go back to that for just a moment
there is a drop down for resource
languages um the so for the the resources that are linked on the site
that's what you're searching for here um or what you'd be seeing here I guess
really um and we are actively working to add more
non-english linked resources um because we know that that many communities need
English resources um so we are actively working on on that um in terms of the in
terms of the site itself we are close to having the whole content of the site not
just the links but but um all of the navigation the con the actual written
content on the site all of the U descriptions of the different resources
all of that available in Spanish at the click of a button um so we are actively
working on that and we are close um so being able to to have that um have that
going um the training materials uh that I've been talking about here here the
training resources and the community engagement materials um we are also
working on having those translated um into into Spanish I'm sorry into Spanish
um we are still exploring sort of how to uh get into non-english non-spanish um
languages um and are interested in hearing what kinds of of um what
languages might be useful for for a large number of people that we could
that we could make sure that that happens uh let me see and I see Ron
mentioned that your Suite of of resources can also be tailored do you
want to speak to that for a second while I search through some more of the the
chat questions sure thank you Katherine so um and on the latter many smart is
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thank you Katherine yeah thanks R that's really helpful I see a few questions
about um adapting resources and sort of how to give credit so we'll make sure
that that is um that is clear on the site as to how to do that um and what we
what we expect um and what is what is sort of required and um but you know
generally um as long as long as you're using it that's what we that's what we
really care about and you are absolutely allowed to adapt resources um whatever
resources you're finding on the on the site um I see a big question that I want
to hold on for just one second um I see some questions about sort of creating a
consider creating a library of images to use to describe the different types of
information literacy which is a really interesting question um you know Finding
finding images um can be a little bit little bit challenging just like
defining any of these things can be challenging but like that idea of sort
of a a library of possible images um I would consider thinking about that um
especially and especially as it relates potentially to some of the uh the visual
resources that we already have um that might be that would be interesting um
and I see a question about information literacy activities activities useful
for schoolage children um and I there are I think um a lot of the resources
that we see are are adult Learners at this point I think but I know there are
some for for schoolage children um I think we are because we've been
starting from the museum and Library space um we've been really starting from
a an informal education kind of standpoint
um which is not quite your question um but I there so I know that there are
are resources for different for varying ages but a lot of them are in sort of
the informal space not really about uh real um like in school curricular
development and things like that um but there are there should there are some
resources available for for uh for school AG children um if you can't find
them uh let me know um our contact yeah I did not click on our go to our contact
which hopefully is fairly obvious here but contact UM the contact form here is
available both in the header and down here in the footer as well um and we're
always happy to happy to get some question questions that we can that we
can answer
um so I I want to tackle the uh well tackle I want to address uh the big
question I mentioned a moment ago um how are we avoiding a deficit mindset um
with information literacy. goov um and building upon learner strengths um the
way that they are already thinking critically in their daily lives and that
is a great question um it is something that we are very mindful of um even the
use of of information literacy rate um Can imply that um that one is not
literate if one does not have this information literacy right and we don't
want that U we want people to feel empowered to learn um and to and to your
point to to build on what you already know um what what one already knows um
in in your day-to-day day-to-day work so we have been we have been actively
addressing that through the language that we use on the site um and back to
the homepage here um in the language that we that we use on the site or at
least trying to um and really thinking about uh thinking about that actively
and making sure that we are are building from a place of strength and how we
describe the problem right um and the the challenges um that it is really
about about not about making anybody feel like
they are in a deficit space um I'm not articulating it particularly well right
now but we are very mindful of that um and and thinking about different ways to
do that as we move forward and expand the resources on the site um and think
differently about um think differently about what we're what we're adding to it
um it's it's very it is top of mind um because I know it's a significant
significant challenge let's see
I want to address I had a c actually we'll stop screen sharing
now I want to address um so I just mentioned that we're thinking about um
some other areas of focus um and some other um other resources uh we are think
and I saw a question about sort of electoral literacy um and uh which which
is what made me think of it um we are actively thinking about expanding into
the science literacy space um and you will see as you peruse the
site you will see um some already some science literacy and there's a science
Communications um resource on there that I highlighted earlier um thinking about
how we are um how we can address science literacy more broadly than health um
Into Climate literacy environmental literacy planetary health literacy all
those that kind of Universe of of um possible resources and there is a lot
out there um and there are as I mentioned already a few on the site um
that is not really categorized as a separate thing yet um so we are actively
thinking about that and then the other area um gets to uh Civic literacy and
we're so we're actively thinking about Civic literacy as well um which allows
us to be in a supporting um supporting Civic engagement space without getting
into challenges around elections and politics directly which we cannot do um
and many of you may not be able to do either but being able to provide
um provide resources that allow us to build Civic engagement and Civic
literacy in our communities more broadly um so I hope that answers hope that
answers that question um and uh also thinking about how often we are updating
um we are adding resources um every month um actually when I looked this
morning I realized we had added um we are now over a hundred resources were
almost at 100 last week and now we are over 100 so we are actively adding uh
resources every month um and we are doing bigger updates um on a not a quite
as regular basis um thinking about new areas of literacy as I just mentioned um
and and making changes to to anything that doesn't quite work um all of that
is either on a rolling basis or the bigger stuff will be on a on a more sort
of quarterly basis all right I think somebody asked about having the site yes
we've got information literacy. goov in the chat we can probably pull up the
last slide too that has that in it as well as the email address information
literacy doov I'm sorry infolit IM ms.gov there
we go um and this presentation as I mentioned uh this recording is going to
be available on our site um we probably if there's a lot of interest in having U
more live webinars for engagement um we we will consider that um but we're
hoping that uh that this sort of training and and covering um covering a
lot of the the parts of the site will be um will be useful um for review we are
also planning to uh shortly be adding eight short videos just 30 second videos
um on particularly sort of highlighted part parts of the site um also on the on
the same same part of the site where we'll be posting these webinars um as
sort of training training opportunities and training ways to to sort of
understand the site better so hopefully that will be that will be helpful as
well so you see the the link here and you the email address infolet IM al.gov
with any questions or or suggestions or ideas and I think with that I don't see
any other and if I missed something I'm so sorry
um oh somebody's asking about uh tweaking the materials and resources yes
please tweak tweak away um to what you need um you know we know that uh
you may not be yeah there's a lot of different ways in which you you may need
to adapt materials that are adaptable here so please do that um and as I as I
mentioned it does um it has all of the materials that we've provided do include
the information literacy. goov website and I'm alessa's branding and that's
that's all you need to do just use it use it to your heart's content and
hopefully you'll find it helpful and we will be sending out the
the webinar recording um to everybody who uh registered to attend each of
these webinar sessions um so you will be able to to share that review if you want
to and um and share so thank you so much if I miss anybody's question I apologize
um thank you so much and um please have at it have a wonderful rest of your day
thank you so much