2012.01.06 Agenda

NC-LITE Winter Event

Teach Better Tomorrow: Sharing Quick Tips for Library Instruction & Instructional Technology

Date: January 6, 2012 - 9:30-1:00 followed by optional lunch and library tour (see agenda further below)

Location: Wake Forest University

Agenda

Part I: Introductions & Catch up - 9:30-10:40

Each institution will provide a 5-10 minute update.

Consider using these prompts to focus your update:

• • Something exciting

  • A challenge that's coming up

  • A new technology in your library

UNCG-Beth Filar Williams

• • More teaching online, and how to get stats for asynchronous tutorials (vs face-to-face)

  • Journal of Learning Spaces just came out; really interested in virtual learning spaces as well as physical

  • PATH tutorial, collecting statistics. doing pre-post testing around library instruction

  • Accreditation

  • Switching to WorldShare (WMS)

  • New website, trying to become compliant to HTML5 for videos

Wake Forest- Roz Tedford

• • Online education, starting online Masters program in Counseling

  • Lots of discussions on campus

  • Taught 2 sections of LIB100 online, which caused a lot of discussion and education about online

  • We hope to hire an elearning librarian this summer

  • Increasing our for-credit information literacy classes (now 17), hired a full time lecturer position and an adjunct

  • Several Summer Technology Exploration Grants

    • Writing an online information literacy textbook

    • Looking at iPad and various drawing tools for art classes

    • Political Science textbook exercises online

    • Exploring Data curation

  • Digital Humanities institute getting off the ground, library represented on committee

  • Hiring: Director of Technologies, Director of Special Collections

  • Our biggest challenge: how to support online students

Duke-Emily Daly

• • Exploring digital humanities, as well as intersections with digital scholarship, projects, curation

  • Thinking about space (physical? virtual) and services

  • Getting something off the ground in Spring and build slowly

  • Looking at how to get instruction involved with this effort

  • Revising the role of subject librarians at Duke, workshops on scholarly communications

  • Constant question about what we give up for the work, what to name services, etc.

  • Managing a lot of new technologies to assess instruction. Encouraging librarians to think more about assessment and intentional learning outcomes.

    • Poll everywhere

    • Google docs, forms

    • Qualtrics

WFU Professional Center- Kate Irwin-Smiler

• • Going through a lot of change lately, hiring a director of the library

  • Re-evaluating a lot of what they're doing.

  • Updating catalog, website

  • Dean of Law school pushing for information commons; everyone is working on definitions

  • Looking at more online support, teaching classes that are simultaneously online and in person

  • Looking at a lot of

ECU-Katy Kavanagh

• • New to ECU, dedicated to online tutorials

  • Move to Qualtrics

  • Accreditation

  • New website

  • Implementing Summon

  • Formed distance education team from across the library

  • Several searches in digital collections

  • University adding a Math lab to the library that the library won't have access to after hours. Requiring a lot of weeding of microfilm, govdocs, etc.

  • Tutoring, writing center, and project step moved in recently

High Point-Amy Chadwell

• • Also looking online and supporting distance ed; creating tutorials and how-to guides. Creating a packet for these students.

  • Beginning to use Big Blue Button, an open source webinar software

  • Used an analysis of chat transcripts to determine which tutorials to begin with, already creating videos based on the information created

  • WorldShare Management came to campus and interviewed, so they're in a commercial about it!

NCSU-Kim Duckett

• • First year writing program, enormous program, looking for more affective aspects of information literacy (more comfortable with librarians, etc). Doing more face-to-face instruction, but also want to reduce the workload required. In the past year created four options, and English 101 can choose the model they like the most, based on where students are in the research process. Upper level continues to have customized instruction.Have a new online form that gives them the data they need to capture. This allowed them to move from only 1 person doing english sessions to a team, including a team of students from UNC.

  • Developed a scavenger hunt, which also gets to those affective qualities.

  • Instruction retreats, talking about how LO are in line and what they could be doing.

  • Opening a new library this time next year, summer 2013 would be nice to have NC-LITe at the Hunt library

  • Lots of interesting user studies, working with a PhD student on their campus

  • Digital Library Initiatives, created Suma, head count app for iPad and for reference transactions. Open source. Ideal for space studies.

Greensboro College- Christine Whittington

• • Staff of 3, hiring freeze (down from 6)

  • President considering: Instructional Technology and Resources Librarian, would do reference, teaching, and assisting faculty with Moodle, students with eportfolios

  • Considering LibGuides

  • Moved to Gmail and Google Apps, so they provide instruction on Google Docs

  • Opportunity to be really creative, opportunity to try things they wouldn't try otherwise

  • Put together a learning commons quickly and with limited funds

Salem College-Elizabeth Novicki

• • Moved to Primo

  • Shifting to teach a lot about it

  • Getting ready to revamp website

App State-Scott Rice

• • Virtual tour of the Instructional Media Center

  • Includes activities that build to assessment.

  • Well received, looking to expand it and make it more robust

  • Revamped mobile website

  • Database of vendor tutorials as well as their own, digital repository of online learning objects, allows people to put them in a list in the order they need

Part II: Presentations and Discussion - 10:50-11:50

10:50: Demystifying the Library with Game-Based Mobile Learning

Anne Burke and Adam Rogers of NCSU

Presentation

11:20: Embedded Librarians: A Variety of Models to Meet the Needs of Students

Giz Womack, Bobbie Collins, Sarah Jeong, Susan Smith, and Roz Tedford of WFU

Short break - 11:50-12:00

Part III: Breakout Scenarios -- 12:00-12:30

Breakout sessions will focus on sharing strategies that we have found to work particularly well in various venues. We'll break out into three groups, each group discussing a different area of teaching. Possible topics include:

• 1. Face-to-face instruction

     1. Summon and WorldShare, what's your approach? Start with what's a really good research question.

     2. How do you teach it? It depends. (Many of us find that to be the case.)

     3. Tailor as best you can to your situation.

  2. Online instruction

• • 1. Started discussion about an online hybrid interdisciplinary course

    2. Discussion of "busy work," what does that mean? Is it actually busy work, or is there learning happening that they're not aware of?

    3. Different learning styles online, putting content online for before class

    4. "Flipping" the class, putting lecture (etc) online for use before class, then use class time for group work and activity

• 3. Teaching and technology project workflows

• • 1. Also talked about Summon

    2. Usability tests to determine role of Summon, etc.

Groups will discuss what they're working on and what strategies they've developed.

Group reports from breakout sessions and wrap-up - 12:30-12:45

Lunch - 1:00, Deacon Tower

After lunch -- optional tour of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

Getting to WFU and Z. Smith Reynolds Library:

Driving directions to the library

Parking at Wake Forest

Parking at WFU is free, but visitor lots are not adjacent to the library. If you need or would like accommodations, contact us and we can plan to swing by your parking lot to pick you up.

Map of parking on campus (PDF)

Lots S1 and S2 will have ample parking, but will require a walk up a fairly steep hill.

Lots C, M, and N are much closer to the library, but each is smaller and may or may not be full.

Students won't be on campus yet, and rush doesn't start until the following week, so there should be plenty of parking options.

Getting to the Meeting Room

When you arrive, please come to the Starbucks in the library. When you enter the front door, the Starbucks will be on the left. We'll meet upstairs, on the mezzanine to mingle ahead of time. At 9:30 we'll head over to 204 to meet.

If you arrive after 9:30: The event will be held in classroom 204 within ZSR Library. This will sound complicated, but it's the simplest way to get there:

• • The entrance to the Z. Smith Reynolds is on the ground level.

  • Walk straight ahead, pass the Starbucks, and the stairwells.

  • Turn left before the circulation desk and head through the stacks.

  • Follow through the door, and the classroom will be just ahead, slightly to the right.

We'll make sure to post several signs along the way. If you prefer maps to help you find your way around, we'll be meeting in room 204. And, of course, you can always ask anyone you see along the way. You will be rewarded for your perseverance with coffee and pastries! :)

Feedback for next time

• • We'll send out a survey, in the meanwhile, feel free to add notes here!

  • Could have used more time for open discussion in the breakout groups