Library Instruction 2.0: Empowering the Learner
May 11, 2007
California State University, Sacramento
Presentations are now available as podcasts.
Sharon Radcliff
Podcast: Welcome from Chair
David Silver
Podcast: Learning 1.0 in a Web 2.0 World: Engaging Students, Classrooms, and Libraries
Abstract: If all goes well, this talk will discuss two things and brainstorm a third. The talk begins with a strategy for blogging I call already existing information optimally uploaded, or aeiou. Next, it examines a number of projects that bring together students, physical places, and blogs. Finally, the speaker will facilitate a brainstorming session among all of us about libraries, learning, and blogs.
Access David’s blog at http://silverinsf.blogspot.com
Anne-Marie Deitering
Podcast: Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World
Abstract: On today’s web, new applications are launched every day (in beta!). And yes, when these new tools focus on the trivial or mundane, it can be hard to justify spending the time to keep current. Does Twitter really have anything to do with research instruction? While a lot of the activity on the read/write web is focused on entertainment, shopping or socializing, underneath it all is something more profound. Our users are using these lightweight, flexible tools to find and share information, communicate and collaborate in new, dynamic ways. Librarians have done some great work figuring out how we can use this participatory web to deliver our services, but for instruction librarians this is not enough. We also need to consider this question – what do we do when the blogs, wikis and RSS feeds our students are using are not coming from the library?
More and more, social, collaborative, web-based tools are being used in teaching, learning and research, pushing instruction librarians to reconsider how we teach our students to find, evaluate and share information. How do weblogs fit into the publication cycle? How do tagging and folksonomies related affect our understanding of controlled vocabulary systems? Can our understanding of concepts of authorship and authority stretch and evolve to help us use collaboratively and dynamically authored books and documents?
This talk will address the question of what it means to be “information literate” in a Web 2.0 world. As we examine some of the tools and services that make up the participatory web, we will explore what we as librarians need to understand about the read/write web to help our students become information literate in this volatile environment.
Michele Mizejewski
Podcast: Instruction on Demand: Shifting Time and Space
Abstract: Whether you call it the read/write web, web 2.0, or web-as-platform — today’s world wide web is increasingly interactive and collaborative. No longer is there a relatively small number of content creators and a vast, passive audience. What are the implications of this new information landscape for library instruction? To meet current user expectations, instruction must be customizable and available at the point of need. Using flexible, often web-based tools, we can offer real time and/or asynchronous instruction to both local and distance learners, thus empowering the library user to learn or review content *when* and *where* it is needed. We will also look at how these same instructional tools and techniques can be used by librarians for their own professional development.
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