Where Technology and Information Literacy Meet: Interactive Webbased Tutorials for Lifelong Learning

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Where Technology and Information Literacy Meet
Interactive Web-based Tutorials for Lifelong
Learning

• Pamela Jackson, San Diego State University
• Bridget Kowalczyk, San José State University
• February 3, 2006
• SCIL

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Why Make Web-based Education a Priority for
InfoLit Instruction?

• Students educational expectations
• Convenience of virtual space
• Reaching the masses

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Enhancing Information Literacy Instruction with
Tutorials

• Allows for progressive reinforcement of
  information literacy concepts
• Time with students can be more advanced and
  student-centered in-person library instruction
• Pre-college tutorials may help better prepare
  teens for college-level research

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Tutorials Available at SJSU

• Library Essentials
• Library Basics
• InfoPower
• 5 Ways
• Plagiarism The Crime of Intellectual Kidnapping
• Subject-Specific
• Company Information Tutorial
• Computer Science 100w
• Health Professions 100w (down for revision)
• LOTSS (for library school students)
• Prospective Students
• Stairway to Success
• TRAMS (coming soon to a computer near you)

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Designing and Managing a Web-Based Tutorial
ProjectWhat Youll Need and Why
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Development Team

• Librarians and the Information Literacy
  Specialist responsible for creating the content
  and quizzes, and overseeing the overall direction
  of the tutorial
• Two Programmers responsible for HTML, PHP,
  JavaScript, and back-end Oracle quiz databases
  and queries
• Two Graphic Artists/Designers responsible for the
  artwork, Flash animations, and overall look of
  the tutorial
• Sound engineer and/or digital media specialist to
  record voiceovers

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Information Technology / Web Team Support

• A web server dedicated to tutorial projects
• Ability to support the exploration of a variety
  of technologies for instruction
• Dedicated personnel

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Budget

• Ongoing, committed support for programming and
  graphic design
• Funding, as needed, to keep up with the times and
  try new, interactive technologies to reach 21st
  century learners

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Software and Technology Expertise

• HTML
• PHP
• CSS (cascading style sheets)
• JavaScript
• SQL or Oracle
• Macromedia Flash
• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe Illustrator
• Streaming Video and VoIP

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Timeline to Complete the Average Tutorial

• Tutorials are ongoing projectsthey take
  significant time and nurturing
• Average time to build a short, solid tutorial
  from start to finish can be a little as 3-6
  months, but typically takes longer
• Initial tutorials are usually launched and
  tinkered with every few months

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TRAMS Tutorial

• A series of interactive, web-based instructional
  modules for high school students
• Modules based on the AASL Information Literacy
  Standards, ACRL Information Literacy Standards,
  and actual student assignments

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TRAMS Collaboration How many minds does it take
to create a teen tutorial?

• Bridget Kowalczyk, SJSUs Information Literacy
  Specialist
• Pamela Jackson, SDSUs Information Literacy
  Librarian, formerly a librarian at SJSU
• Andrea Schacter, SJPL Youth Services Librarian
• Dawn Imada, SJPL Youth Services Librarian
• Hilary Langhorst, SJPL Web Team Programmer
• Jie (Jessie) Cai, Chirag Bhalgami, Veer Vivek
  Kaushik, Programmers
• Wan Si Wan, Eric Szeto, and Nobuko Kimura, SJSU
  students in Graphic Design and Animation/Illustrat
  ion.
• Mike Adams, TRFT Chair Ramon Navarro Johnson,
  KSJS disc jockey character voiceovers and
  technical support/use of the KSJS recording
  studio to capture voiceovers.
• Chuck Manthe, Theater instructor and Lincoln High
  School and none high school theater students
  providing character voiceovers.
• Two local high school teens, consulting the team
  on ways to present interesting content to their
  peers.
• Focus groups with teensReach, a youth council for
  the San José Public Library.

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The Result

• http//tutorials.sjlibrary.org/trams/

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ThanksQuestions/CommentsPresentation can be
found online athttp//www-rohan.sdsu.edu/pjacks
on/Presentations