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Admit it, we've all had students nod off during instruction sessions! The material we need to cover is essential to student learning, but difficult to present in an engaging manner. Effective use of multimedia means utilizing technology to supplement (but not replace!) good teaching practices. This presentation will look at how to incorporate some freely available multimedia sources into your instruction sessions and library web tutorials.
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CHRIS SWEETHEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGEINFORMATION LITERACY SUMMIT
APRIL, 2008
Youtube, Video Games and the Da Vinci Code: Effective use of Multimedia in Information Literacy Instruction and
Tutorials.
WHY?
Students are ChangingLearning Theories are changing with them
“A Vision of students today”Michael WeschKansas State University- Cultural
Anthropology 1,700,000 views on YouTube7,000 comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related
WHY? Cont’d
Technology can facilitate learningIt helps to address multiple learning stylesHelps engage millenial studentsIt’s FUN!
Bibliographic instruction needs a makeover!
Why?
WHAT?
What free resources can you utilize for teaching information literacy? YouTube Online Games Video clips Blogs Wikis
New Approaches
How do you teach students about Wikipedia?Is it?
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New Approaches
Ideas for teaching about Wikipedia Have students compare an encyclopedia article and a
wikipedia article Encourage instructors to have classes serve as article
reviewers based on what they are learning. Revise and add to an existing article.
Evaluate the accuracy of an article using other sources
Definitely show how easy it is to edit (many students don’t know)
Show students how they can follow the citation trail. They can “use” Wikipedia even if they can’t cite it.
Wikipedia
Use this time lapse video clip to demonstrate how articles are constructed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8O-hv3w-MU
Don’t reinvent the wheel! See how other schools are using Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects
Video games and Info Lit
72% of Americans ages 6-44 play video games (npd.com)
Survey of 20 colleges and universities revealed ALL students had played video games and 65% described themselves as regular gamers. (Pew)
50% have played a game by age 6 (Kaiser)
Video games and Info Lit
Library Arcade from Carnegie Mellon “I’ll Get It” In this game you go around in the library
helping students find the best resources for their projects “Within Range” A basic shelving game http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/
“Quarantined” from Arizona State Universities Players try to save the world from a deadly outbreak while
developing information literacy skills as they explore the college campus game world, avoid contagious students and professors to remain virus free and avoid VOA (Virus Outbreak Agency) officers. To discover the cause of and cure for the virus, players are required to interact with characters and make decisions about the information resources they encounter.http://library.west.asu.edu/game/quarantined/login.cfm
YouTube
Tremendous potential for teachingAcademic spin-offs: www.teachertube.com
March 6, 2007 Instructional, educational, professional development,
lesson plans
www.bigthink.com hundreds of hours of direct, unfiltered interviews with
today's leading thinkers, movers and shakers Includes: academics, politicians, writers, artists and
presidential candidates
YouTube
Advantages: Always accessible* No special software or plugins required No copyright restrictions* (at the very least
responsibility defaults to #1 YouTube then #2 person who uploaded video)
Easy to upload your own instructional materials, tutorials, etc.
Content can be extremely current
YouTube
Some Tips: Find the best quality SHORT clips that you can! A long
video will kill momentum. Consider showing just relevant segments of videos.
Example: great 90 sec videos from Olin library (Cornell)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDGJ2CYfY9A
Learning styles: tell ‘em, show ‘em, give ‘em a handout. Test your connection and computer ahead of time! Create video assignments with follow-up questions Use in-class videos to spark discussion Have Fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZJlkplvYdgA
Tutorials
Don’t reinvent the wheel! Don’t have the time or expertise to create all new multimedia content for your library tutorials? Beg, borrow and steal!
An outstanding example of how to do tutorials from Otis College of Art and Design: http://library.otis.edu/informationliteracy.html
My experience: millenials don’t like tutorials. They like learning by doing (lots of trial and error).
CARLI has some Voyager tutorials available.
Other technologies for teaching
Free Stuff!! Wikis Blogs
Both can be great replacements for institutions lacking course management software like WebCT.
Stuff that costs! Clickers Smartboards Video database subscriptions
General Tips for Incorporating Multimedia
Use technology to supplement –not replace- sound teaching practices.
Remember the Boy Scouts: Be Prepared! Check out new classrooms. Test video and sound capabilities.
Always have a plan BDon’t go overboardStay current on new trends and applications
Multimedia for Info Lit Wiki
New wiki that indexes and annotates freely available multimedia resources (videos, podcasts, images, tutorials, handouts, lesson plans, etc)
Divided by broad categoriesPlease pass on the link and add your favorite
resources!Work in Progress!
http://infolitmultimedia.pbwiki.com/
