Research Guides: Information Literacy and Technological Agility Shared Competency (ILTA): Outcome 5: Technological Agility

Outcome 5: Technological Agility

Definition: Employ appropriate technology in context.

Indicators	Exemplary	Developing	Emergent	Not Evident
5.1 Uses a variety of technologies to complete academic and personal work.	Uses required technologies accurately to complete academic or personal work.	Uses required technology with minor inaccuracies to complete academic or personal work	Uses required technology inaccuracies to complete academic or personal work with major.	Does not use required technologies to complete academic or personal work.
5.2 Uses technological tool(s) to accurately analyze information.	Applies technological tool(s) to analyze information and/or to reach valid conclusions accurately.	Applies technological tool(s) to analyze information and/or to reach valid conclusions with minor inaccuracies.	Applies technological tool(s) to analyze information and/or to reach valid conclusions with major inaccuracies.	Does not use technological tools to analyze information and/or to reach valid conclusions.

Common Artifacts, Activities, and Tools: Citation software (such as Zotero); Discipline-specific tools

Collecting & Citing Sources
In this activity, students will learn how to auto-generate a bibliography in virtually any citation style, keep track of sources, and more! This workshop will show you Zotero can help save and organize research sources.
Get Started with Zotero
With Zotero, students never have to stress again about making a properly-formatted bibliography! Zotero makes collecting, organizing, and analyzing your research sources easy. This tutorial will help navigate the application and offer some neat tips and tricks for utilizing Zotero!
Understanding Data Visualization
In this workshop, learn the basics of designing data visualizations, selecting appropriate graph styles, and how to identify misleading data visuals.
ZotLog: Inspiring students to adopt structured methods in Zotero
The purpose of this activity is to inspire students to adopt structured methods when they explore and retrieve information. It is based on lab notebooking methods and on managing and documenting the flow of references in Zotero, a reference management software.