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Introducing the IRIS-42 Modules:

Introducing the IRIS-42 Modules:. Information Research and Instruction Suite for 2-year colleges. Presented by Kitty Mackey for Clark College Fall Orientation 2008. Why?. TILT modules are popular, but outdated: Students want shorter sessions Students want more point-of-need

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Introducing the IRIS-42 Modules:

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  1. Introducing the IRIS-42 Modules: Information Research and Instruction Suite for 2-year colleges Presented by Kitty Mackey for Clark College Fall Orientation 2008

  2. Why? • TILT modules are popular, but outdated: • Students want shorter sessions • Students want more point-of-need • Content aimed at 4-year programs • Quizzes are fluffy • Plagiarism Module • Designed for Clark College, but interface fraught with errors 

  3. Why? • E-learning: • Students need access to research instruction • Faculty need tools for assessing Info Outcome • Assessibility/ADA/Sec508 • Existing tutorials built on outdated foundation • New model follows current recommendations • Context for Library Handouts • Duplicate face-to-face experience

  4. How? • Grant , DL Council of WA, Summer 07 • To create learning objects to meet IL outcomes • Specifically target CC students • Collaborators: 3-2+2-1+2 • Underestimated, Overdreamed = needed more time • Revised sabbatical project • Work continued Winter & Spring 2008

  5. Now • Implement Fall 2008 • Work out bugs • enhance: images, activities, attachments • Input from Faculty, Students, WA librarians • End of Fall Q • Discontinue TILT and Plagiarism modules • Make files available to other WA CCs

  6. Inspired By… • Students of B. Hughes’s GRCP 210 Class • Usability tested plagiarism module winter 07 • Designed, recommended , content, interface See what students inspired:

  7. Makeover Project Web Site: Before

  8. Student Makeover Projects:

  9. After:

  10. What to do with IRIS • Assign the Quiz • Assess what areas need most focus • Use as before/after for assessing info outcome • Assign one or all modules to students • Use checklists • Prepare students prior to attending library sessions • Use in lieu of library sessions • Use to supplement library sessions • Librarians have supplemental activities

  11. Taming IRIS • Fixes? • Typos? Broken Links, strange, unexplainable occurrences? • Ideas to improve or enhance? • Tools: • IRIS wiki, fix-it page: http://iris42.pbwiki.com/page_fixes • Or email Kitty, kmackey@clark.edu

  12. Let’s Play! www.clark.edu/library/iris

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