Internet Research and Bibliography

Submitted By

Liz Pope, Adult Educator, Hay River CLC, Aurora College

Best Practices Supported

• Learning Materials
• Instruction

Curriculum Links

• ALBE English
• ALBE Introduction to Computers
• ALBE Social Studies

How It Works

Learners will identify a Northwest Territories community. The instructor and the learners decide on the parameters for choosing a community to research, such as a community within a specific region, or a community within a certain population range.

The first task in the assignment is for the learners to identify and frame a definition of the community. The ultimate goal is to generate an organized list of all the information available about the chosen community. This should include materials from a wide variety of sources: government documents; archival materials; newspapers or magazines; academic journals; scholarly and popular books; and videos, film or television productions. The learners determine the most effective way to organize the list. They will not be reading or evaluating all of this material. Their task is only to locate and list/organize the materials. While the smaller communities may not have comparable library services to the larger towns, learners are given the opportunity to access and utilize the NWT Public Library, the Legislative Assembly Library, Northwest Territories RWED Library, and the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. Internet research is the main component of this activity. Learners may utilize a spreadsheet program to organize and manipulate the data.