Online Information Literacy Tutorials for the X Y Z Generation: Recent Technological Enhancements Instructional Librarians Meg @+H 2 O-Singer University of Evansville and Susan Metcalf University of Southern Indiana IHETS/IPSE All Partners Conference, Indianapolis, April 21, 2006
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Online Information Literacy Tutorials for the X Y Z
Generation:Recent Technological
Enhancements
Instructional Librarians
Meg @+H2O-Singer University of Evansville
and Susan Metcalf
University of Southern Indiana
IHETS/IPSE All Partners Conference, Indianapolis, April 21, 2006
Overview of Session
• Information Literacy (IL)– What is it?– Why we need it
• Incorporating IL– inflite – Research Roller Coasters
What is Information Literacy?
• Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information."
Association of College & Research Libraries: Information Literacy Competency
Standards for Higher Education - http://tinyurl.com/yw6j9
Librarians & IL
WE TEACH IT!
Examples of IL
• I need information
• Success after failure
• Citing sources appropriately
• Using information ethically
Why we need it?
• 50-75% college grads lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks – Understanding documents– Calculating tips– Analyzing news stories
• Information literacy = lifelong learning
IL & Distance Ed
• Same IL outcomes as on-campus students
• Same access to info resources
• Same experiences in learning about info resources
Association of College & Research Libraries: Information Literacy
Competency Standards for Higher Education
inflite
inflite
• TILT – 1998
• Searchpath – 2001
• inflite – 2003
TILT
Good TILT
• Games
• Live searches of catalog & databases
• Quizzes gave instant feedback– Faculty could assign as graded exercise
• More advanced library sessions
Bad TILT
• Length of Modules
• Frames
• 2 versions to maintain (Flash & NF)
Searchpath
Searchpath
Searchpath
• 3 Modules 6 Modules
• Added content & Flash animations
• Freed from Frames (except quizzes)
• Rewrote Quizzes into PHP
• 1 version – Flash but with NF options
inflite
inflite
inflite
• 6 Modules – not numbers– Research = recursive process
• More Flash animations
Interactions
• Tilt-o-meter
• Think Fast I & II
• Hit Me If You Can
• Library Squares
• Live Searching
TILT-o-meter
Think Fast
Hit Me If You Can
Think Fast II
Library Squares
Live Searching
Design
• HTML
• Embedded Flash
• CSS @ UE– Separating content from design
• Browser independent
Customize
• How’d they do that?
• Local Branding– Your Catalog– Your Database of choice– School Colors
Why Use inflite?
• It’s FREE!
• Develop IL Skills in students regardless of location– Same access to info resources– Same experiences in learning about info
resources
• Graded assignments (quiz)
• Link to 1 module or all of it
Information literacy -Sample online tutorial
Information Cycle, Penn State Univ. (9 minutes) (2001)
• create rich media online presentations• add audio narration to presentations• readily edit/revise audio• create quizzes• publish to a Breeze Server which creates a URL address for ready viewing
After creating a presentation in PowerPoint, a non-technical user can:
Using Macromedia Breeze software to create an online tutorial
Information Cycle Research
Roller Coasters
Created in FlashCreated in PowerPoint
and Breeze
9 minutes long 3 minutes long
6 month design process to publish first version
3 weeks design process
2 content developers
1 designer
1 program developer
1 instructional service librarian
High quality product
Low-tech production,
still in experimental stages
Somewhat dated:
Subject: Columbine
Easy to update
the Subject: Katrina
to a more recent event
Why Research Roller Coasters
• Content patterned after Penn State’s Information Cycle online tutorial
• An analogy for the research process
Demos:
Research Roller Coasters online tutorial:Software Macromedia Breeze PresenterTopic: Using a variety of sources (for ENGL 101)
Research Roller Coasters (not available at this time)
Video introduction using Microsoft Movie Maker
Using Macromedia Breeze software to create an online tutorial
1 Record Audio
2 Publish
3 Insert Flash
4 Quiz Manager
4 basic features
1
Any added notes can appear while you are recording so you can simply read from them,
one slide at a time.
2
3
Breeze and Video• When is Breeze not a breeze?
When a novice user creates a video clip in Microsoft Movie Maker with the intention of converting the file to a Flash .swf file in orderto embed the video in Breeze.
Problems arose:
• At times, continuous looping of the video
• Problems getting the video to stop without rebooting the computer
• PowerPoint slides would rearrange themselves in the Slide Sorter View
• The video would not reset itself back to the beginning unless you closed out of and reopened the file
• While the video was 15 seconds in Microsoft Movie Maker, it changed to 11 seconds after be published to the Breeze server
4
Sample quiz created in Breeze(not available at this time)
Presentation available at:http://faculty.evansville.edu/ma35/ipse2006.html
Bibliography
Design of Research Roller Coasters patterned after and indebted to Penn State’s Information Cycle www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infocycle/infocycle.html
Images, audio and video online Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/“Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.”
Flickr (Photo-sharing) (recently acquired by Yahoo)http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Microsoft Clip Art (including photos, animations, and sounds)(with some graphics you can use Ungroup under Draw option and manipulate the image to suit your needs) http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
Software for creating online tutorialsMicrosoft Office
PowerPointExcel for pie charts, animated with PowerPoint
Microsoft Movie Maker http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
Video conversion software to convert .wmv to .swf (flash) videoTurbine Video Encoder 2.0 (free demo download for evaluation) http://www.blue-pacific.com/products/turbinevideo/default.htm
Bibliography – Photograph credits and video permission
All images accessed March 29, 2006
Music CD Bachman-Turn Overdrive. “Takin’ Care of Business.” A Knights Tale [Movie Soundtrack], Sony, 2001.Note: Music, lyrics, and music video: “up to 10 percent of the work but no more than 30 seconds of the music or lyrics from an individual musical work,” University of Maryland University College, http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html