The Big6 Approach integrates information needs, search strategies, presentation skills, and evaluation skills, along with technology tools. This systematic process will help your students define information needs, then find, engage, organize, present, and evaluate information for specific needs and tasks.

* Big6 is a successful, tested approach that incorporates information and technology skills to strengthen your curriculum.
* Big6 helps your students to evaluate information, track their own progress during assignments and reflect on their completed work before it’s graded.
* Big6 stages allow your students to develop information problem-solving skills as well as become organized, proficient users of information technologies.
* Big6 ensures that your students learn the fundamental approach for success in an overwhelming information and communication age.
* Big6 approach develops the problem-solving capacity of your learners, including students who do not fit a traditional image of “successful learners.”

The seminar site will be: The Lodge at Woodcliff, 199 Woodcliff Drive, Rochester, NY on Sunday, August 1 and Monday, August 2, 2010. Sessions are: Sunday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Monday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Seminar check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday. Registration fee is $795. Group discounts available. Save 15% when four or more people from one district or one organization register together.