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

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• 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)

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infocycle/infocycle.html

What can you do withBreeze Presenter software?

• 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)

Creating a simple quiz with Breeze

Research Roller Coasters:

Passive if posted as online tutorial.

Interactive when tested in classroom environment.

Quiz feature provides some interactivity.

Interactivity

Research Roller Coasters

PowerPoint slides: 23,704. Kb

After “published” to Breeze Server: 16,139.4 Kb

Length/

Size of files

Patterned after and indebted to Penn State’s Information Cycle

Easier to create, less technical knowledge required–PowerPoint ad Breeze instead of Flash

• Easier to update–Annually using a more recent event

Content

Minimal use of text, bullets and templates

Emphasis on graphic design for instructional purposes

Design

Overview of the production process

Roller Coaster Video segments - permission from author

Photos inserted into video - Creative Commons Flickr (Photo-sharing)

Music from CD (less than 10%, no more than 30 seconds)

Copyright concerns

Add text equivalents to all images

Limit use of animations and transitions

Using the Notes panel, add text transcripts of audio tracks

Accessibility

Overview of the production process

Thank You!

Meg Atwater-Singerma35@evansville.edu

Susan Metcalfsmetcalf@usi.edu

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