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CTEC LIBR 115Internet Research Living Online

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A Tale of Collaborative-Based Foundational
Internet Instruction for a College Community

• Kitty Mackey, Reference/Instruction Librarian
• Robert Hughes, CTEC/GRCP Instructor
• Clark College
• Online Northwest
• February 13, 2009

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Who Are We?

• Kitty is a librarian deeply involved in
  technology
• Bob is a technology instructor who
• early on found out librarians
• have the keys to the car!

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Successful Collaboration Tips

• Agree on important aspects
• Class is iterative not perfect product
• Outcomes
• Meet regularly
• Accommodate each others areas of passion and
  specialty
• Collaborate on syllabus
• Maintain document repository

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A Deep, Wide Mission

• Class hits a nerve with faculty
• Students and the Emperors New Clothes
• Students treat Google as an oracle in an
  unquestioning, non-evaluative way
• Students lack of overview to the range of tools
• Little or no training in how to evaluate web
  resources

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Course Roots and Fuzzy Math

• libr 105 1 credit ctec 105 3 credits
• libr/ctec 115 2 credits
• Modify, condense, letting go
• Compromise Collaborate

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Outcomes The Third Collaborator
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Outcomes

• College-Wide Outcomes
• Information
• Technology
• IC3 Living Online Standards
• Networks and the Internet
• Electronic mail
• Using the Internet
• Impact of computing and the Internet on Society
• (Internet and Core Computing Certification
  Certiport)

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Shared Mission
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Tools

• Textbook
• Information Literacy Technology, by Carla
  List-Handley
• Rough Guide to the Internet (well)
• IRIS modules (www.clark.edu/library/iris)
• YouTube
• Underscore, accessorize, illuminate
• icebreakers and summary opportunities
• engage through entertainment
• The Wonderful World of Web 2.0

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Tools

• Online Identity Worksheet
• Who are you?
• Personalizes online experiences
• Serves as a pathfinder
• Fluid, changeable

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Cautions

• Initial survey to establish base skills
• Keep everyone engaged
• Use different modalities cautiously
• E-mail
• CMS like Blackboard
• Wiki
• Hard copy delivery
• Other?

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Unveiling Web Technology

• Illustrate, hands-on, lecture, demo
• Relationship between txt and html by saving web
  pages
• Client-Server changing a web document and
  uploading a page for all to see

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Techniques

• Look for Double-Duty Opportunities
• Le mot juste moments
• Save as upload or attach reflect
• Posting to class blog
• Group and individual work on the wiki
• Set up accounts in databases
• Scaffolding activities over several weeks

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Info and Tech Hand-in-Hand

• The class wiki
• Students easily upload and revise their
  information space
• Builds community
• Students observe each others work
• Compare front-end with html
• cteclibr115.pbwiki.com

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Info and Tech Hand-in-Hand

• The class blog (bows to Zachary)
• Weekly video, response required
• Push more content in a fun way
• Hands-on, non-threatening
• Track progress
• Assessment tool
• CTEC/LIBR115 Blog

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Assessments with a Capitol A

• Examples
• Search Strategies
• Composing and Efficient and Effective Search
• Results of Self-Assessment Survey

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Challenges

• Create team projects where folks who know can
  share
• Be watchful for the self-advised and student who
  is padding out their credit load
• Try to impress upon folks that their various
  learning activities oftentimes build upon one
  another

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Growing the Class

• Weekly debriefings are very important
• Whats working?
• What isnt?
• Share info about students
• Plans for next quarter
• Broader mission
• college-wide testing?

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Get the Word Out

• Watch for opportunities
• Faculty seminars
• New initiatives on campus (Weekend college, DL,
  learning communities)
• Announcements in classes
• One-to-one
• Signs in the stalls ?

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Documents

• Syllabus CTEC/LIBR115
• Course Content Linked with Outcomes
• Online Identity Worksheet
• http//www.clark.edu/Library/Faculty/onlinenw2009.
  html

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• Thank You!