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It Takes Librarians and Faculty: Using Project Information Literacy to Improve Student Research Skills Webinar

Please join the Teaching and Learning Collaborative (formerly known as the Information Literacy Collaborative) to view this two-part webinar. As you probably know, we were part of two rounds of the Project Information Literacy research. Feel free to attend just one or both.

Please pass along this invitation to interested staff, instructors or faculty outside the Libraries as well.

Times: Tuesday, March 13 1:00 - 2:30pm (1 hour webinar; 30 minute discussion)
AND
Tuesday, March 20 1:00 - 2:30pm (1 hour webinar; 30 minute discussion)
Location: Wilson S30B
Webinar Leader: Steven Bell, Temple University
The better our understanding of the process students go through in conducting academic research and their behavior as researchers, the better job we can do in helping them to become better researchers, better writers and more critical in their approaches to evaluating and synthesizing information. Whether you call it information literacy or research skill building, helping undergraduates and graduate students to become effective researchers is an outcome shared by librarians and faculty. In this workshop, led by Steven Bell of Temple University, the findings of research studies produced by Project Information Literacy will be used as a framework to enhance our knowledge of student research behaviors and explore strategies for helping them to strengthen those skills. Guests will include Dr. Michael Eisenberg, co-founder of Project Information Literacy (on March 13) and librarians who are using the Project Information Literacy findings to reach out to faculty for collaboratively advancing campus information literacy initiatives.

Register at https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=LB0313

Learn more about Project Information Literacy: http://www.youtube.com/embed/C58U8iUFK5Y

Libraries Instructor's Forum

Monday, December 12, 2011
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Room 530A, Science Teaching and Student Services (STSS) Building
Take this opportunity to share your experiences and techniques for teaching at the Instructor's Forum. This informal get together will focus on discussion and idea sharing. For example: Wondering how your colleagues teach a specific tool or concept? Want new ideas to liven up your teaching? Have an instruction question you wanted input on? Bring your successes, challenges, and questions. We look forward to a lively discussion and we will provide treats!

Laying the Foundation for Good Assessment

The Research and Publications Committee and Information Literacy Collaborative invite you to our upcoming workshop "Laying the Foundation for Good Assessment" to be held Friday, November 18th from 1:30-3:30pm in Wilson S30A. Paul Zenke will lead an interactive workshop on creating meaningful learning assessments by focusing on the proper alignment of your learning objectives, instructional activities, and assessment plans. The goal of this workshop is to provide you with practical advice and assessment examples that you can apply to your own workshop, course, or instructional project right away.

Teaching that Sticks! Workshop & Donuts

Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011
Time: 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Location: STSS 432B
Want a bit of inspiration for your instruction for fall semester? Join consultants from the Center for Teaching and Learning for a workshop on approaches to teaching for long-term learning. Based on Dan and Chip Heath's bestselling book, Made to Stick, we will begin with the premise that real learning involves not just memory and understanding but also transformation. We'll discuss the Heaths' strategy for presenting ideas that stick and generate ways to apply it in your instruction. You'll leave with immediately usable ideas to refine your instruction sessions.

Designing Exhibits with Impact

Date: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Location: Andersen Library 120

What does it take to make a really compelling exhibit--from a small display case to a large room? Exhibits can be great instructional and outreach tools and whether you've done many exhibits or considering your first one the task can be challenging. This hands-on workshop will explore the conceptual phases of refining an idea, identifying your audience, and selecting content to the practical considerations of mounting an exhibit. Presented by Archives and Special Collections staff, Darren Terpstra, Stephanie Crowe, and Ryan Bean.

Register at: https://webapps-prd.oit.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=LB0302

Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop held

When: June 22, 10:30-12:00 Where: Wilson S30A

Design thinking is creative problem solving process that challenges individuals to embrace a bias towards action, employ radical collaboration, focus on human values, prototype and experiment, develop and maintain processes, and cultivate a talent for clarifying and solving difficult problems.

In this one-hour, interactive, hands-on workshop, Paul Zenke, our instructional designer, will lead us through the design thinking process and explore how this method can be utilized at the Libraries to design creative solutions to instructional, service-based, and organizational challenges.

Universal Design Workshop held

Slides available

For an overview on the session, please read Kristen Mastel's overview on the Learning in the Libraries blog: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/learninglibraries/2011/05/universal-design.html. This event was co-sponsored by the Diversity Collaborative and the Information Literacy Collaborative.

Current Issues Coffee Club

Information Literacy Collaborative Current Issues Coffee Club Wednesday, March 23, 2011 3:30-4:30 in Wilson Library S30A

Moving away from practical we head towards the theoretical with: Sturges, Paul, and Almuth Gastinger. “Information Literacy as a Human Right.” Libri 60.3 (2010): 195-202.

Environmental Scans Phase II - Winter 2010/Spring 2011

Goal: To increase integration of information literacy into major core courses

• Information Literacy Environmental Scan Phase II

Current Issues Coffee Club: Project Information Literacy

The Information Literacy Collaborative held the Current Issues Coffee Club on Wednesday, September 29, 3:30 to 4:30 in 308 Andersen Library

Topic: The University of Minnesota Libraries have participated in two rounds of research being conducted by Project Information Literacy. Learn more about our involvement and discuss the findings based on their two most recent research reports.

"Project Information Literacy (PIL) is ongoing research project, based in the University of Washington's Information School. Our goal is to understand how early adults conceptualize and operationalize research activities for course work and "everyday life" use and especially how they resolve issues of credibility, authority, relevance, and currency in the digital age."

Readings:

1.) "Finding Context: What Today's College Student Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age", Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington's Information School, February 4, 2009 (http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_ProgressReport_2_2009.pdf)
2.) Introduction and Major Findings Section pp. 2-3 “Assigning Inquiry: How Handouts for Research Assignments Guide Today's College Students,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington's Information School, July 13, 2010 (http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Handout_Study_finalvJuly_2010.pdf)
3.) OR watch some of their short videos with findings on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ProjInfoLit
4.) or Read a summary of interesting ideas the Collaborative members have selected from the readings at our blog: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/learninglibraries/.

Instruction Program Round up for Fall

1. What is your experience with teaching with the new site?

• How are you using the new site in your instruction? As we learn and teach with the new website, lets share some of what is working and not working. Please share your comments via this blog (click on the comment feature at the top). The IL Collaborative and Instruction Coordinator are planning on hosting a forum to share these in mid-October.
• If you are demoing the personalization features and login with your information--you will also get the Drupal black bar at the top of the page which might make it difficult to demonstrate. If you want another log in, feel free to use: libteach/Goldy7gopher. You won't see any books or recommendations but you won't get the black bar at the top either.
• If you are trying to describe something or want to direct a student to a particular tab...you can...use the #name of tab (you can hover over tabs and "right click>copy link location"

https://www.lib.umn.edu/#books
https://www.lib.umn.edu/#articlesanddatabases
https://www.lib.umn.edu/#journals
https://www.lib.umn.edu/#video
https://www.lib.umn.edu/#courses
https://www.lib.umn.edu/#askalibrarian

2. Check (and add to) the Information Literacy Toolkit (https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/AP/InformationLiteracyToolkit) to get ideas for orientation PPTs, guides, handouts and more.

3. Remember to use Desk Tracker for your statistics (http://client.desktracker.com/?uact=login)

4. New templates from Communications for guides and PPTs (https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/Communications/Templates)

5. Please continue to update RQS/Subjects and Library Course Pages (https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/AP/LibraryCoursePage)

6. Do you know how to reserve an instructional room with Google Calendar? Check out this quick guide (https://netfiles.umn.edu/oit/trnrs/GoogleAppsLrningSite/pdf/GAQuickRef-Calendar.pdf) and see arrow #10

7. We have revised the web pages about the Instruction in the Libraries (http://www.lib.umn.edu/instruction) and will continuing to edit and add content. Let us know if you have comments or suggestions.

Please let anyone in the Information Literacy Collaborative or Instruction Coordinators Group know if you have more questions or comments.

Assessment Workshop held

Title: Assessing Learning Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010
Time: 3:00-4:30
Location: Wilson S30B Presenter: Dr. Jane O'Brien, Center for Teaching and Learning
Description: This session focused on tips, tools, and strategies to assess how well students are learning in one-shot and other instructional sessions. We learned ways to develop and use a myriad of formative and summative assessment strategies.
Workshop recording: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p78094286/
PowerPoint Slides
Key Take-aways:

• Take situational factors (environment, subject, learners, teacher) in to account when selecting an assessment technique
• What do you want to assess? Major categories are 1.) knowledge, 2.) skills, 3.) Values/Feelings
• How are you going to use the data?
• Techniques for assessing knowledge include: background knowledge probe, misconception check, memory matrix, focused listing, muddiest point/minute paper, test questions
• Techniques for assessing skill include: categorizing grid, defining feature matrix, WWW&H (When, where, why and how use?), concept map, term paper prospectus, self-assessment of skills
• Techniques for assessing values/feelings: confidence survey, reaction logs
• You may also want to assess the teaching process. A few techniques are: engagement survey, punctuated lectures, satisfaction surveys, learning analysis
• Two Resources: Fink, L. Dee. (2003).Creating Significant Learning Experiences. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass and Angelo, T. (1993). Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.  

Library Faculty Seminar 2010 held for Institute of Technology Faculty and Instructors

The Science and Engineering Library and the Information Literacy Collaborative hosted a 1 1/2 day seminar for instructors in the Institute of Technology on May 19-20, 2010. The purpose was to create and support a community of faculty and instructors committed to developing student skills in finding, evaluating and synthesizing information in their academic coursework and for lifelong learning. The seminar introduced participants to a variety of Libraries services, tools, and skill sets to help support instructors and students in their teaching and learning. The seminar included sessions on information literacy, library and Google research tools, copyright, scholarly communication, data management and offered consultations with subject librarians for integrating these resources into current and future assignments. Here are a few comments from faculty and instructors responding to questions on beneficial aspects and feedback overall:

• "Revelations about what the library can and does do to facilitate faculty & student productivity"
• "Learning about available resources, talking with fellow faculty about issues related to effective pedagogy."
• "Very informative. I learned a lot. It makes me think of new ideas and more effective teaching strategies."
• "Thank you all for a fun & informative workshop!"

Learn more at http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/test/Sciweb/seminar2010/.

This program was first offered August 23-24, 2005. Based on recommendations in the the final report of the original project group and the desire to offer a seminar with a discipline-specific emphasis, we are taking a slightly different approach in 2010 by offering this to faculty in one college. We will shape the program around the specific information literacy needs of the physical sciences and engineering, and participants will work as a cohort. The outcomes of the program include refreshing and expanding faculty and instructor knowledge of information and 21st century literacies and developing a model that we can replicate for other colleges in the future.

Learn even more https://netfiles.umn.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-14594200_1. Please feel free to contact me (katep@umn.edu) with any questions.

U participates in Project Information Literacy

On Monday, April 19, about 4000 U students will get a Web-based survey (22 items, 10-15 minutes completion time per student) on library and everyday research to complete in the next two weeks. This is part of Project Information Literacy. It is year two of the ongoing research study about how college students find and conduct research in the digital age. Here is additional information:

"In this year's survey, we are investigating how students use, evaluate, and integrate research sources they use for course-related and everyday life research. We will ask: What practices and techniques do students use during their research process for finding, selecting, and integrating information sources? Which Web 2.0 technologies do students use for supporting course-related research tasks (e.g., Google docs)? What difficulties do students face with the entire research process? Overall, the survey concentrates on collecting data about the "higher-order thinking" tasks associated with information literacy, which involve evaluation, synthesis, and integration."

Eventually we will receive the results for our campus and will learn how we compare with the other 26 schools who are participating. Please feel free to contact me (katep@umn.edu) with any questions.

Using Desk Tracker to collect Instructional Statistics

https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/AP/DeskTrackerInstructionFAQ

Current Issues Coffee Club-March 30, 2010

Read: Horizon Report 2010

View notes: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/learninglibraries/2010/04/notes-from-current-issue-cofffee-club-horizon-report-2010.html

Information & Media Literacy: Current Trends and Projects

Scott Spicer, Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian, and Kate Peterson, Information Literacy Librarian. Library Issues Seminar held March 2nd, 2010

Information and Media Literacy are often being wrapped up into the larger 21st Century Literacies movement. We will present operational definitions of information and media literacy, trends in these fields, and challenges in higher education. Learn about Project Information Literacy and the approaches SMART & Libraries Media Services have taken to integrate our production support services into curriculum through student-produced video.

We had some technical difficulties while trying to record but there should be some available soon. Here are the PDFs of our presentations:

• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy

Meeting on Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for pilot liaisons and IL Collaborative

• January 11 with Cynthia Murdoch
• http://www.slo.umn.edu/

Active Learning for Librarians Workshop

Held: Monday, September 14 from 9 to 10:30 (Anderson 120 A/B)
This workshop with with Jane O'Brien from the Center for Teaching and Learning was held recently. We learned how to select and implement teaching methods appropriate for one-shots and more. This workshop presented and modeled over 20 active learning techniques. Here are a few takeaways from the Information Literacy Collaborative members after the event:

• There are many active learning techniques that aren't just small group work
• Many of these techniques don't take much prep
• Many techniques don't take much time in the session and are very doable in a 50 minute one-shot
• Many of these techniques work will work along with more traditional lecture
• It is important to match technique with the outcomes you want to students to learn from the session
• Active learning can be more than "hands-on with computers"

Regardless of whether you attended the event or not, here are two useful ways to take advantage of the workshop:

1. PowerPoint from Session
2. Low quality Video | High quality Video

Information Literacy Toolkit

The Information Literacy Toolkit is intended to help librarians increase their knowledge of information literacy, share best practices, and facilitate creating high-quality learning materials. The toolkit is meant to be a dynamic place where librarians can share ideas, sample PPTs, lesson plans, worksheets and more on information literacy, instruction, curriculum integration and more.

Environmental Scans- Fall 2008/Winter 2009

Goals include: To identify opportunities for integrating information literacy into the undergraduate curriculum, to assist librarians in becoming more familiar with courses and the curriculum process, to improve the strategic position of the library and understand strengths for increased involvement in teaching and learning and to begin the process of mapping information literacy standards to the undergraduate curriculum.

• Information Literacy Environmental Scan Phase I

Charge

The Information Literacy Collaborative supports Academic Programs staff in planning, delivering, and integrating information literacy education in all formats for our user community across colleges, programs, and disciplines. An important goal of the Collaborative is to recommend appropriate approaches for engaging the campus community in the policy and practice issues that arise from the University's Student Learning Development Outcomes, which include many aspects of information literacy competencies.

The Collaborative will support the entire instruction continuum which includes traditional classroom sessions, specialized workshops, integration of information literacy into the curriculum, and e-learning. The group's activities will inform AP Division and departmental planning, priority setting, and resource allocation for information literacy activities.

• Information Literacy Collaborative Charter
  
• Information Literacy Collaborative 2009-10 Goals
• Information Literacy Collaborative 2008-09 Goals
  
• Information Literacy Toolkit
• Key Opportunities

Upcoming Events

The Collaborative organizes workshops, brown bag sessions, and meetings to educate and support library staff integrate information literacy competencies into curriculum

• Environmental Scan I Results brown bag: Monday, August 24 from 11:30 to 1:00 in Wilson S30A
• Active Learning for Librarians Workshop: Monday, September 14 from 9 to 10:30 (location TBD)
• Check out the AP Current Issues Coffee Club for upcoming discussions.

Past Events / Archives