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Information Literacy via Collaborate Paula Dalziel, Edge Hill University, [email protected] I would like to offer Teachmeet presentations on the value of Blackboard Collaborate for delivering information literacy sessions. Collaborate offers the opportunity to reach distance learners, part-time learners, learners on placement and learners who for whatever reason are unable to attend the university. I am part of a pilot scheme at Edge Hill University delivering Learning Service Inductions and information literacy sessions to outreach students using Collaborate. The outreach and distance learners benefit from the live sessions with the tutor/facilitator. This medium is not a replacement for face to face sessions but rather complimentary to, and supplementary to, those sessions. Collaborate allows the facilitator to deliver a PowerPoint presentation, a live interactive information literacy session, or any type of combination which would be used in the university setting. The minimum level of technology support required for ‘setting up’ and delivering the sessions enables both the facilitator and students to engage with the experience and soon become adept at using the technology. Collaborate is part of a digital future that needs to be embraced by all sectors of information professionals as an additional means for delivering information literacy in the twenty-first century. Therefore I think my experience of using the technology would be valuable for other professionals to hear about and see being demonstrated during Teachmeet presentations.

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Information Literacy via Collaborate

Paula Dalziel, Edge Hill University, [email protected]

I would like to offer Teachmeet presentations on the value of Blackboard Collaborate for delivering information literacy sessions. Collaborate offers the opportunity to reach distance learners, part-time learners, learners on placement and learners who for whatever reason are unable to attend the university. I am part of a pilot scheme at Edge Hill University delivering Learning Service Inductions and information literacy sessions to outreach students using Collaborate. The outreach and distance learners benefit from the live sessions with the tutor/facilitator. This medium is not a replacement for face to face sessions but rather complimentary to, and supplementary to, those sessions.

Collaborate allows the facilitator to deliver a PowerPoint presentation, a live interactive information literacy session, or any type of combination which would be used in the university setting. The minimum level of technology support required for ‘setting up’ and delivering the sessions enables both the facilitator and students to engage with the experience and soon become adept at using the technology.

Collaborate is part of a digital future that needs to be embraced by all sectors of information professionals as an additional means for delivering information literacy in the twenty-first century. Therefore I think my experience of using the technology would be valuable for other professionals to hear about and see being demonstrated during Teachmeet presentations.