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LOEX 2006 Presentations
Moving Targets: Understanding Our Changing Landscapes
Changing Needs of Our Users | Working with New Technologies & Environments | Making Assessment Useful | Coping with Ethical Issues | Keeping Up with Change
Changing Needs of Our Users: Research & its Impact on Information Literacy
Full DescriptionsDancing with Problem-Based Learning: The Perfect Partner
Presenter: Celita DeArmond
Effective Methods for Incorporating Problem-Based Learning into Library Instruction
Presenters: Barbara Kenney, Susan McMullen
Finding Your Inner Gamer: Adapting Instruction for Digital Natives
Presenters: Robin Ewing, Justine Martin
Hitting a Moving Target: Curriculum Mapping, Information Literacy & Academe
Presenters: Kristen A. Bullard, Diana H. Holden
Is Google God? How do students look for information today?
Presenters: Gerri Foudy, Travis Johnson
Letting Go & Starting Over: Transforming an Information Literacy Tutorial
Presenters: Steven Frye, Nikki Busch, Abbie Loomis
Lost in Translation? International Students & Non-English Information Literacy
Presenter: Ethan Pullman
Our Transition Mission: Reaching Out to the High School Community
Presenters: Ken Burhanna, Mary Lee Jensen, Barbara Schloman
What Does First-Person Shooter Have to Do With Library Instruction?
Presenters: Ann Brown, Paola Ceccarini, Cathy Eisenhower
Zeroing in on Moving Targets: Strategies for Reaching Transient Teachers
Presenters: Susan Avery, Emily Rogers
Working with New Technologies & Environments
(Alphabetically by Title)
The Begetting of Information Literacy Tutorials: Third-Wave Tutorials for the iPod Generation
Presenters: Susan Metcalf, Meg Atwater-Singer
Two southern Indiana instruction librarians will share their collaborative efforts to incorporate some of the latest technologies in the creation of online tutorials for their users. The tools and technologies to be discussed will range from free to expensive, low tech to high tech, and easy-to-use to relatively complex. The first part of the presentation will include a brief discussion of Camtasia and Flash, but focus primarily on Macromedia’s Breeze Presenter software, which works in conjunction with Microsoft PowerPoint. The content and design of Pennsylvania State University's tutorial, The Information Cycle, will be used to measure the success of employing the more user-friendly Breeze software in place of Macromedia’s more sophisticated and expensive suite, including Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver. The second part of the presentation will trace the succeeding generations of online library instruction tutorials (TILT to Searchpath to inflite) and focus on how each tutorial has responded to evolving web standards, research on learning styles, and HTML editing shortcuts. The presenters will discuss issues of design, content, length, and interactivity, while highlighting accessibility, customization, assessment and usability issues. Librarians face a challenge in determining which technologies to learn and which technologies to disregard, because technology is a moving target that is constantly changing. After attending this session, you will be inspired by the tools and tutorials available to help non-techies (or tech-lites) reach students, wherever they are.
Connecting with AIM: The Search for a Virtual Reference Niche
Presenters: Lucretia McCulley, Olivia Reinauer
Launching virtual chat reference at the University of Richmond Libraries has been an interesting, multi-year challenge filled with "trial and error." After trying several different software programs and staffing options, librarians have finally selected AOL’s Instant Messenger service. Learning about the world of virtual reference has truly been a "moving target" experience for them as software, professional philosophies, and user preferences have changed rapidly in recent years.
This presentation will describe the development of virtual reference and experimentation with different instant messaging software at the University of Richmond Libraries. A brief history that includes early collaborations with the computing services help desk, a variety staffing patterns, technical and financial challenges, and marketing the service to students will be shared. The significant success of the service in the last year will be documented with statistics. Presenters will discuss other pertinent issues, including training, guidelines, advertising, and staffing. This data will touch on a number of themes and learning outcomes, including the value of experimenting with a variety of chat reference software programs, the need for library staff to stay current with new technologies, and a focus on integrating library services into "user technologies." Finally, the presenters will provide concrete examples of the usefulness of archived IM questions for data collection, through which librarians can discover common "point-of-need" queries, and can take action to respond to those needs.
Convening an Emerging Technologies Working Group in an Academic Library
Presenters: Debra Riley-Huff, Erin Ellis, Tami Albin
The Instructional Services Department at University of Kansas Libraries is a leader in combining technology literacy and information literacy into a cohesive skill set. Because emerging information technologies represent one of the fastest "moving targets" in the profession, librarians’ understandings and utilization of these technologies to enhance library instruction requires intentional, concerted and coordinated effort.
How best to identify and recommend specific emerging technologies to library administration and other potential stakeholders? The presenters will discuss how to convene an emerging technologies working group, with consideration for participants’ skill levels and interest areas, as well as the size of the group. They will review current research methods and tools for identifying technologies that are applicable to library instruction in classroom, distance, and courseware environments. With emphasis on discovery, they will suggest opportunities for testing and creatively expanding upon the usefulness of new technologies. Finally, the speakers will describe how to create an in-house proposal that garnishes administrative support and discuss the factors that affect the implementation of technologies into instruction, including realistic timelines, delivery methods, staff training, and course content enhancement. Attendees at this presentation will leave the session understanding how to convene a task group and how to research, test, and recommend emerging information technologies that can then be incorporated into their library instruction programs.
Grains of Learning: Learning Objects & Library Instruction
Presenter: Deborah Diller
This session will illustrate how new technologies assist instruction librarians in adding variety, interaction, and content into the information literacy curriculum. There will be a lively hour of exploration about a Grain of Learning and putting learning objects to work for students in the classroom setting, a correspondence course, and an online classroom. The classroom settings will focus on a teacher-led large group review, pretest, or small group activity and a learner-driven individual or partner review, pretest, or small group. The correspondence course looks at assignments and activities, and the online classroom includes a pretest, review, or assigned activity. Samples of learning objects and resources for developing learning objects will also be covered. Participants will develop an understanding of learning objects, their availability online, and their possible uses in the learning process.
H-ITT Me With Your Best Shot: Implementing Classroom Response Systems
Presenter: Debbi Renfrow
For the "traditional" college student today, technology has been an integral part of their life. They are not only comfortable with it but they expect it in everything they do. Librarians must look to new technologies as a way to engage and teach these students. In this session, participants will learn about the H-ITT classroom response system, an interactive electronic teaching system that can be applied to a library instruction setting. This system increases student participation by soliciting anonymous feedback throughout a library instruction session and immediately displaying the results graphically. This system actively engages students in the learning process, allowing them to visualize their own progress. The application of the classroom response system provides on-the-fly feedback. The librarian, in turn, is able to re-review and make adjustments to the instruction session. Implementation of this technology has impacted not only the instruction program, but also the interactions with students in the classroom. This presentation will examine the logistics of implementing the system, the use of the system and its impact on information literacy instruction and assessment, as well as any future changes that can be made as a result of using this tool. Participants will hear some of the advantages and disadvantages of this technology, along with lessons learned from using a classroom response system. Audience members will also get a chance to test the system first-hand.
How They Learn/How You Teach: Building Library Instruction Sessiosn for Multiple Learners
Presenters: Jeff Newman, Pia Russell
This session will introduce participants to a variety of cognitive and learning styles and help identify practical strategies for appealing to the broadest range of student learning. Particular attention will be given to the challenges inherent to teaching hands-on workshops in wired classrooms. Strategies for coping with these challenges will be introduced and then discussed in small groups.
Progressive educational reform movements that emphasize student-centered learning encourage librarians to challenge some of their instructional assumptions. Librarians are increasingly realizing both the importance of their teaching role and the imperative of undertaking a critical re-evaluation of their instructional practices. Simply providing information is not sufficient for satisfying the learning needs of users. Librarians must understand not only what students learn but also how students learn.
This session bridges the two LOEX conference themes of "Working with New Technologies and Environments" and "Changing Needs of Our Users" by suggesting that an understanding of current research on multiple learning and cognitive styles facilitates a learner-centered focus to information literacy in changing technological environments.
Participants will be introduced to the concepts of multiple learning and cognitive styles as well as current research in these fields as it relates to library instruction. A short demonstration will guide a group discussion of how these concepts can be applied to library instruction sessions. Finally, participants will receive tangible methods of how their new understandings of multiple learning and cognitive styles can be applied to their own instructional experiences.
Impacts of Mobile Computing and Communication on Library Instruction
Presenters: Sarah Bosarge, Karen Estlund
In his latest book, futurist Howard Rheingold defines the "smartmob," a new paradigm in social computing in which "people...cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities." The presenters set out to explore the implications of this paradigm for information literacy learning and instruction. They will present the findings of a pilot study conducted to investigate the use of mobile computing and communication technologies by undergraduates at the University of Utah. Technologies explored include handheld wireless devices, mobile audio devices, new cell phone features, and Internet communication software such as blogs, instant messenger, community forums, etc. The findings regarding students’ social and school-related uses of these technologies, and the impact our findings have had on developing new models of library instruction will be discussed. Comparison of the findings to national data in order to assess broader implications of the data, analyze local variances, and predict future trends will be shared. The discussion will emphasize the do-able aspects of creating and using mobile communication technologies for library instruction by providing examples from our program and other national efforts in this area. Participants in the session will leave with tips for conducting similar studies at their institutions and with suggestions for ways to stay abreast of how students are using technology in their lives. The conclusion will focus on a discussion of tools of the future and how to anticipate users’ needs and ways to connect with them through library instruction.
Let the Games Begin! Changing Our Instruction to Reach Millennials
Presenters: Bee Gallegos, Tammy Allgood, Karen Grondin
In fall 2001, Arizona State University at the West campus admitted its inaugural freshmen class. Previously, only upper-division and selected masters’ degree programs were offered. Librarians created a menu of information skills outcomes and a plan for delivering a common library curriculum to first year-students. The Information Skills Outcomes serve as a framework for teaching, learning and assessment. The first-year library instruction program is targeted, sequenced, and learner-centered, accommodating the different learning styles of Millennials. Instruction is presented in a series of short, focused mini-lessons interspersed with activities that keep students engaged, interested and stimulated. Student acceptance and enthusiasm for technology is used as a mechanism to promote student participation and encourage learning. The lower division instruction team created learning objects and interactive lessons that reflect changes in student expectations, are customizable, assist students in discovering and developing skills, and allow students to learn while having fun. Game-based learning was incorporated into activities that create an environment where learning about detailed and complex processes is engaging rather than boring.
This interactive session will provide attendees with practical ideas and strategies for working with Millenials that can be easily adapted and used in their own environment. Online tools used to support and assess student learning and evaluate teaching will also be presented.
Who Put That Column into the Middle of the Room? Designing Functional, Flexible, and Forgiving Spaces for Library Instruction
Presenter: Paul Glassman
What is the right space for library instruction? How do we propose a project of that magnitude? What happens if the architect doesn't listen to us? Can we do this on our own, without an architect? Do we want fixed seating? What type of equipment is needed? What should the capacity be? These and other questions will be addressed in this practical session for any participant with an interest in or need to create dedicated instructional spaces within or near a library. With the increasing demand for electronic classrooms and the measurable benefits smart classrooms have in effective information literacy instruction, librarians are being asked to provide improved learning environments for their students. The presenter will illustrate prototypes for shaping learning spaces to respond to changing learning needs. Participants will leave with practical guidelines for managing design and construction projects of this type.
Making Assessment Useful
Assessing the Foundation
Presenters: Gayla Byerly, Annie Downey
Assessment: Builds Strong Programs Eight Ways! It's Good for You!
Presenter: Tom Bickley, Kyzyl Fenno-Smith, Steve Philibosian
Creating Avenues: Partnerships in a Changing Library Environment
Presenters: Kate Jenkins, Judy Gaydos, Judy Pula
Online Knowledge Surveys as a Means of Library Instruction Assessment
Steven Baumgart, Elizabeth Hassemer
Coping with Ethical Issues
Exploring the Librarian's Role in Promoting Academic Integrity on Campus
Presenters: Candice Benjes-Small, Eric Ackermann, Kevin Tapp
A Tutorial With a Twist: How Plagiarism Advances Library Instruction
Presenters: Sandra Hussey, Mark Jacobs
Using Scenarios to Teach Undergraduates About Copyright, Fair Use, & Plagiarism
Presenters: Susan Ariew, Heather Runyan
Keeping Up with Change
Creativity & Personalization: Freshman Orientation for the Millennial Generation
Presenters: Ann Wheeler, Pam Harris
Myspace & Facebook: Reaching Our Students with Their Technology of Choice
Presenters: Yvonne Meulemans, Melanie Chu
Research on the Road
Presenters: Consuela Cline, Russell Palmer
Staying au courant: Resources for Instruction Librarians
Presenter: Jana Varlejs
