Lightning Talks
These seven minute sessions are on Saturday, May 2nd from 12:30-1:15 p.m.
Brewing Our Own: Collaborating With Dubai University Students to (Unknowingly to Them) Create Library Ambassadors
Lynnette Harper (Zayed University)
How an academic library in the United Arab Emirates created a relationship with their reluctant student base via what the students called "hanging out", but was (unknown to them) an intentional program of pushing the library beyond its traditional boundaries, creating a low-anxiety second language (L2) learning environment, meeting students at their point of need, and nurturing the students' sense of curiosity all through embedding in the PALs (Peer Assistance Leader) Center.
Building an In-House Scavenger Hunt App to Improve Student Engagement and Assessment in First Year Seminar Library Instruction
David Hisle (East Carolina University)
To better improve student engagement and assessment during First Year Seminar class visits, ECU's Joyner Library has developed an iPad app in-house called Snap6. Created with the open source LiveCode platform, Snap6 is a camera-based scavenger hunt that challenges student to locate and photograph important locations in the library. Students organize into groups, choose a team name, and photograph two service desks, three locations of interest (group study rooms, exhibit spaces, etc.), and a preassigned book still sitting on the shelf. These photos are then grouped into a single image and emailed to a library email account for easy assessment.
From Books to MOOCs: On Becoming the Course Librarian for a Massive Open Online Course
Jennifer Stout (Virginia Commonwealth University)
This talk will cover how a Teaching & Learning librarian acted as the liaison for the first massive open online course (MOOC) developed by Virginia Commonwealth University. This MOOC was created to be an online and publicly open version of UNIV 200: Inquiry and the Craft of Argument, a required sophomore-level research and writing course. Discover the challenges and rewards this librarian encountered as the course librarian for a MOOC with over 100 participants.
Inspired by Failure: Engaging Students with an Active Learning Exercise on Authority
Rebecca Hewitt (Hartwick College)
The spark for this idea was failure; my failure to engage students when I taught a lesson about source authority in college-level research. When I said the words, "Scholarly, academic and peer-reviewed," what I saw was a sea of blank faces.
Inspired by cognitive psychology, constructivism and my experience using post-it notes to foster interaction in one-shot instruction classes, I designed the Pyramid of Evidence activity to bridge the gap between high school and college expectations for research. First-year students work together to build a Pyramid or post-it notes that represents their perception of the authority of sources they have used in past research. Throughout the one-shot information literacy class that follows, the Pyramid is slowly transformed from one depicting a high school understanding to one representing college-level expectations.
Exposing Literacies in a Co-Culture: Information and Digital Literacy Skills within Hip-Hop Music Sampling (this talk has been canceled)
Forrest Foster (Winston Salem State University)
In our field of librarianship, we tend to primarily focus on information literacy in the classroom with heavy emphasis on research papers and navigating databases. Bringing information literacy to real life application and exposing information and/or digital literacy skills that are prevalent in many unconventional occupations and professions would be informative, courageous and engaging.
We are no longer just learning and teaching about hip-hop for leisure purposes. We are now demonstrating how certain aspects of hip-hop can be tied to digital and information literacy skills- (learning outcomes) that can be measured and assessed.
