This presentation was delivered at the University of Ulster Library Subject Team Meeting on 11 May 2011. The presentation shows how the Viewpoints team have developed the Information Skills theme for their interactive workshops, and describes how Ulster librarians can get involved in delivering information skills workshops using our resources.
2. Viewpoints andInformation Literacy Presenter: Karen Virapen,
Access and Distributed Learning University of Ulster Library
Subject Team Meeting, 11th May 2011 3. Viewpoints Overview
- Aim: to create user-friendly reflective tools to promote and
enhance effective curriculum design.
- The tools will help staff consider areas such as:
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- information skills/information literacy,
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- creativity in the curriculum
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- while considering the learner perspective
4. F2F Workshop format
- Allows teams to share ideas around course design
- Using large learner timeline worksheet and A6 cards
- Teams choose principles, map them to student timeline, select
examples and write own ideas on timeline
5. Information Skills Theme
- Aim to get staff thinking about students information literacy
needs (e.g. research/study skills) for a module/course
- Librarians can use these cards / workshop resources with
staff
6. Pedagogical background
- 7 principles based onSCONUL Seven Pillars
- Examples on the back of cards are adapted fromInformation
Skills Benchmarks , a paper by Peter Godwin from the LIS
7. Information Skills - revisions
- Librarians involved throughout revision process
- August 2009- presented initial concepts to Subject
Librarians
- Autumn 2009 individual consultations with librarians card
content
- March 2010 interactive workshop with draft cards at Librarian
Subject meeting
- Throughout 2009/2010 piloting cards with course teams in
Ulster
- Summer 2010 new ideas for cards on Information Skills Ning
social network
- February/March 2011 final revisions from ADL team and
librarians
8. Key changes made toInformation Skills theme
- Meaning of some of the principles was unclear to some users so
wording was changed to clarify meaning
- Descriptions of principles on the front of cards was made
simpler
- Examples on the back of the cards were clarified and brought up
to date with current library practice
- Too much information cards summarised and simplified
- Duplications on different cards removed
- Examples grouped in a more logical way
- Layout made easier to read
- Branding and Creative Commons copyright added
9. Simplified principles easier to understand
- Define the task and understand the topic
- Identify appropriate resources
- Find and extract information
- Compare and analyse information
- Organise and share information ethically
- Interpret information and create new content
10. Examples - clarified
- Easier/quicker to read in workshop situation
- Clear at a glance to staff or to students with limited
knowledge of information literacy
- In line with Ulster library practice
11. Printable cards
- Can download printable Information Skills cards (in PDF format)
from Slideshare
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http://www.slideshare.net/Viewpoints/information-skills-printable-cards
- Viewpoints blog post explains how to print two cards to a page
and make up cards
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http://viewpointsproject.blogspot.com/2011/03/viewpoints-printable-cards-now.html
12. Next steps
- To embed these workshops in the University to help course
teams
- Librarians central to this process delivering Information
Skills sessions to lecturers using our materials as prompts
Workshop format and Information Skills theme are both complete
13. Other uses of our resources
- Librarians/course staff could use cards with students, to show
them information literacy concepts
- Help learners to understand the skills that they have to
develop, and specific examples of how to develop them (e.g. using
software like Refworks to manage references)
14. How to hold a Viewpoints workshop
- Viewpoints have written a Handbook to explain to staff how to
use our reflective resources
- This will give academics the information they need to run a
Viewpoints course design workshop with their team
- Librarians can use the Handbook for ideas/hints on running an
Information Skills workshop
15. About the Handbook
- Draft 1 is available online to download via Slideshare we would
welcome any suggestions on this draft from librarians
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http://www.slideshare.net/Viewpoints/viewpoints-workshop-handbook
16. About the Handbook (continued)
- Final version will include a set of downloadable resources
printable cards, handouts and resources for each theme, sample
workshop plans, useful links, etc.
- We welcome suggestions of resources or handouts to include for
Information Skills/information literacy you may already have some
handouts for the Library
17. Viewpoints Project End
- Handbook and downloadable
- resources for staff to use
- More workshop delivery/refinement of other themes
- Development of parallel online tool for curriculum design
- Development phase ends July 2011
- Dissemination/evaluation phase ends Autumn 2011
18. Information Literacy, our resources and you
- Viewpoints are supplying10 sets of module-level Information
Skills cardsto the Library (course-level printed cards to
follow)
- Once extras are printed we will give the Library3 sets of the
A0 size laminated student worksheets in the meantime you can borrow
worksheets from Viewpoints if required
- You can have your own information literacy workshops for staff
or students if desired, using the Handbook and cards as a
guide
- Use the card resources creatively as prompts, to invite debate,
to discuss information skills load in a course, to get students to
consider information literacy.You will have your own ideas on how
to best use cards
19. Conclusions
- These slides are available online for online viewing or
download athttp://www.slideshare.net/Viewpoints/presentations