Session M: Information Literacy Assessment: Session 1: Program Assessment

The first part of a panel presentation regarding assessment and instruction. Carol Franck was unable to present.

Geneseo:
Bonnie Swoger
SAILS
www.projectsails.org

Incentive: $3 for café OR $3 donation to student group charities.. the second option was very successful.
The results from the survey help reinforce the amount of time and energy that SUNY Geneseo librarians are putting into instruction across the curriculum.

"Negatives:"
No access to individual student data.
Will not use in the immediate future,
Will do a new home-grown assessment for their Freshman writing class.

Walking backwards into Information Literacy Learning
Jim Nichols SUNY Oswego

Tutorial/worksheets
Rubric … meaningful learning
They don't believe in "skills" but rather in big conceptual tools as guideposts to continuing practice; meaningful learning, and care about what students learn "to be."
First year: Rubric applied to worksheets sample in 3 year gear cycle
Capston: Discipline-Specific rubrics applied to capstone project
Integrated into five year program review cycle
Both levels: Information literacy items in NSSE

Session B "Creating a Distant Roar: Virtual Hands-On, Information Literacy Workshops for Remote Campus Students

through a Library- Academic Support Collaboration

Dana H. Langley (librarian) & Linda Hamell (Academic Services) (Empire State College)

Dana.Longley@esc.edu

Linda.Hamell@esc.edu

www.slideshare.net/danahlongley

Link to Handout: http://tinyurl.com/5nct3c

Demo of Wimba Virtual Classroom: http://tinyurl.com/5unpp8

Collaboration between the library and the academic support department resulted in "live" information literacy workshops offered simultaneously across NY State. Students at remote sites had people there to help them with navigation and searching. Interest was quite high and response and attendance rates showed a strong interest in learning more about doing research effectively.

Introduction:

Empire State College offers all types of instruction: Online, blended, face-to-face

Offer more than 100 research databases.

ETS study found 87% of our students are information illiterate. (27 Oct. 2006)

Did a study using Historical Studies class --- examined papers to see if the papers met or exceeded research skills and discovered that students didn't know about or hadn't used library databases to access appropriate information.

Which would a student choose? Confusing library web page versus Google interface.

Collaboration:

Most students didn’t even know there was a library, let alone how to use it.

Were on Wimba, moving to Illuminate

Many students are underprepared in technology too

Workshops limited to two or three topics

Preparations:

Dry run so there were no technological glitches.

Hands-on exercises

Interactive exercises had to happen more frequently

Multi-Location Broadcast

Learning Objectives

Info Lit Competencies: SUNY Gen Ed and ACRL

Research @the library

1. Intro to research

2. Search Skills

3. Documenting sources

Question / Evaluate Everything

Doing workshops over the summer too.

Way to market: SAVE TIME and EFFORT

Academic Support – realized that librarians were seldom reached out to by students, so THEY decided to INCLUDE them.

Outcomes

Almost 100% agreed that they could use what they learned today

Should be given when you start Empire State College

CIT2008

I am attending the CIT2008 conference at Genesee Community College.
See my poster presentation done on Wednesday plus many other great programs.

My Podcast

I just looked through my archives, and I have neglected to post my podcast. For those of you who are interested in how instructional designers and librarians are similiar, this is a very short answer to that question.

My podcast

My E-portfolio

I am busy working on the final project for my graduate class in instructional technology. It isn't finished as of today, so you will have to check back later to see the final product.

E-portfolio for ETAP526

The winner for the wiki is...

My colleague and I have chosen to use wetpaint for our blog about instructional design and library and technology issues. We have been so busy with our regular jobs and our class work that we have not started much yet. Hopefully, we will have time this week.

Designer and Librarian Collaboratory

Library-2-LMS conference

The conference was a success! We had over 130 people here at Brockport for one keynote session, 9 workshops, and 13 poster presentations. Honestly, I was so consumed with the details that I didn't get to attend a session in its entirety, but we will have reports from the moderators for each of the sessions. The attendees asked if we are going to do it again next year!