Info Lit Pre-College - via local newspaper?

How can colleges and universities use or influence information literacy efforts in K-12 schools and public media?

How do/can/should college and university information literacy programs build on what is being accomplished (attempted?) in pre-college information literacy activities? How do/can/should college and university information literacy programs influence pre-college information literacy activities?

How do/can/should college and university information literacy programs build on what is being accomplished (attempted?) in public media - e.g., Washington Post newspaper? How do/can/should college and university information literacy programs influence public media (e.g., Washington Post newspaper) information literacy activities?

Following is full text of brief inset excerpt from today's Wash. Post article How Can I Find Reliable Information on the Internet? - washingtonpost.com (p. c14 9/13/2007):

"Google includes a powerful way to filter Internet searches.

"Say you're doing a report on the F-15 Eagle jet. If you want to limit your results to military sites, type

"F-15 Eagle :mil ('mil' stands for military) in the search bar. All your results will have '.mil' somewhere on the page. You can do the same thing with 'edu' for education and 'gov' for government sites. Remember to include a space between your last search word and the colon.

'The site http://www.google.com/help/basics.html is an introduction to Google searching. It has a link for more advanced operators. Happy searching!"

The online version of this article also includes this list:

"There's More

"Kids.gov is a good source of online information.

"Here are a few others:

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/homework-- Useful information about animals, history, maps, arts, places and science.

• http://www.infoplease.com/homework-- Click on 'quizzes' and see how smart you are.

• www.howstuffworks.com-- Basic explanations of how lots of things work. A good place to start your project.

• www.scholastic.com/kids/homework-- This 'homework hub' is great for finding information about writing reports."