Updates, Weeks 6 & 7: InfoLit Course (EDT 110)

The quarter is drawing to a close so quickly, and we still have a lot of work left to do for Project READ. Week 6:  We spent most of our class time working individually with our students to improve their citations and annotations.  We also spent time on a pre-reflection exercise, since we were scheduled to help Project READ with a book sorting at the Look at a Book warehouse in Dayton that Saturday.  (The owner of Look at a Book regularly donates books to Project READ so they can distribute them to children and reading tutors in the area).  We issued three prompts for the students to start thinking about how their work at the warehouse would: 1.   tie to their coursework and 2. impact the community. Week 7:  We began class with a post-service reflection, and we prompted the students to write about how their service-learning experience thus far (their research and the book sorting activity) tied to their personal and academic growth.  Then, we challenged each of the students to find four sources, cite and annotate them and put them in the binder they will present to Project READ on March 6.  The sources could come from previous homework assignments.  They could use our comments on the homework we returned to them to correct and improve their citations and annotations.  Before the end of class, the binder contained at least a dozen or so sources.