Bridget Kowalczyk, San José State University Pamela Jackson, San Diego State University

1. Preparing 21st Century Teens for Lifelong Learning: A Collaborative, Interactive, Web-Based Tutorial Project Bridget Kowalczyk, San José State University Pamela Jackson, San Diego State University June 10, 2006 LOEX-of-the-West Kohala (Kona) Coast of Hawaii's Big Island

2. Public & Academic Library Collaboration: Playing on Strengths • Public Library strengths: • Established relationships with High School Teachers and School Library Media Specialists • Teens Reach Group • Knowledge of California Dept. of Education Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks • Academic Library strengths: • Experience infusing information literacy into the curriculum • Experience creating learning objectives and outcomes • Experience with creating content and quizzes for online tutorials • Technical support for the creation and maintenance of online tutorials • Continuing education opportunities in assessment, instructional design,… • Budget to support the Information Literacy Program • Established relationships with departments on campus

3. Web-Based Tutorials:Changing the Way We Teach Information Literacy

4. Why Make Web-based Education a Priority for InfoLit Instruction? • Students’ educational expectations • Convenience of virtual space • Reaching the masses

5. Enhancing Information Literacy Instruction with Tutorials • Allows for progressive reinforcement of information literacy concepts • In-person instruction with students can be more advanced and student-centered • Pre-college tutorials may help better prepare teens for college-level research

6. Concepts Taught via Teen Information Literacy Tutorial • Developing a Research Topic • Writing a Thesis Statement • Identifying Popular and Scholarly Literature • Understanding and Recognizing Primary Research • Researching Pro/Con issues • Listening and Note Taking • Plagiarism • And much more!

7. Student Learning Outcomes Popular vs. Scholarly Module Learning Objective(s): • Student learns to recognize the difference between popular and scholarly journals based on author, audience, language, appearance, references, and status (peer-reviewed or not). Assessment of Learning Outcome(s): • Step 1: Prequiz to determine student's understanding of the concepts to be taught. • Step 2: Tutorial Quiz results measure student's understanding of the concepts taught in the corresponding module. • Step 3: Student's ability to apply the concepts taught in successful completion of the corresponding high school assignment.

8. Measuring Student Learning • Quizzes at the end of each module test students’ knowledge upon completion. • Quiz data can be used to tailor content of both library and course instruction. • Library is able to provide teachers and librarians with data about their students’ knowledge.

9. Quizzes and Queries • Students register to take a tutorial. • Quiz scores are automatically emailed to the student upon completion. • Results are stored in a local database. • Queries allow us to see quiz scores by class, student, semester (includes class averages and scores by question).

14. Automated Email Received from Tutorial

15. Emailed Quiz Results

16. Query by Student Name and School

20. Developing and Managing our Web-Based Teen Tutorial Project:Resources, Staffing, Budget

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Software and Technology Expertise • HTML • PHP • CSS (cascading style sheets) • JavaScript • Relational Database (e.g., MySQL or Oracle) • Macromedia Flash • Adobe Photoshop CS • Adobe Illustrator • Streaming Video and VoIP • Browser Compatibility

25. Accessibility • ADA Requirements • ADA issues with Flash Animations • Voice Over • Alt Tags for Images

26. Timeline to Complete a Tutorial • Tutorials are ongoing projects—they 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

27. TRAMS: A Tutorial for Teens

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

29. TRAMS Collaboration: How many minds does it take to create a teen tutorial? • Bridget Kowalczyk, SJSU’s Information Literacy Specialist • Pamela Jackson, SDSU’s 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/Illustration. • 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.

30. The Result http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/trams/

31. ThanksQuestions/Comments Presentation and handouts can be found online at:http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~pjackson/#Presentations

32. Other 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)