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Innovating for Information Literacy

Innovating for Information Literacy. Going it alone: innovations in information literacy. UEL, Jan 2012. Andrew Walsh University of Huddersfield Academic Librarian National Teaching Fellow @andywalsh999. Who am I? A little about me…. Chartered (MCLIP) 2007 Innovation Award (UC&R) 2009

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Innovating for Information Literacy

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  1. Innovating for Information Literacy Going it alone: innovations in information literacy. UEL, Jan 2012. Andrew Walsh University of Huddersfield Academic Librarian National Teaching Fellow @andywalsh999

  2. Who am I? A little about me… Chartered (MCLIP) 2007 Innovation Award (UC&R) 2009 LIRG Research Award 2009 National Teaching Fellowship 2011 Lots of articles, book chapters and two books on information literacy, mobile learning, active learning and more…

  3. Why innovate?

  4. Why innovate? They think we’re boring “…it has been noted by many that library inductions (and orientation) and library instruction have elicited more than a few yawns from users…” Walsh & Inala (2010) Active Learning Techniques for Librarians: Practical Examples.

  5. Why innovate? Staff and Students are changing

  6. Why innovate? Information Resources are changing

  7. Why innovate? Library usage makes a difference Correlation between e-resource use, book borrowing and student attainment. But none between library visits and student attainment…

  8. Why innovate? For the fun of it! • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level http://www.flickr.com/photos/7933170@N03/2631820657/ - by photographer padawan *(xava du).

  9. Poll? Do you feel like innovators?

  10. Active Learning Warm ups Go to your post Uses To check knowledge and get people moving around, active and alert. Good at the start of a session or to wake people up further in. Materials required Pre-prepared signs – as large as possible. Notes Try to make sure you get a fair mix between the preferences or the discussion bit of this won’t work. Games Library Bingo Uses Any point where you may want to run through a list of items. Examples: inductions or sources of information. Materials required A small piece of coloured card (A5 or A6) for each member of the class. Notes Brightly coloured card works well. A small prize is nice for the winners. Games TV Games – Who wants to be a millionaire? Uses Get more active learning into the session. Encourage competition between members of the class. Materials required Quizdom (or similar) handsets. Notes Good to use at the middle or end of a session to see what has sunk in. Warn students early on that there will be a ‘test’ or quiz’

  11. Mobile Technologies

  12. Mobile Information Literacy How do you think information seeking and use changes with mobile devices? How do people act differently when they can access the ‘net wherever they are?

  13. Four areas where mobile IL varies – Where? “Someone sends me a link at work …. You just BANG, instapaper it … when I’m on a bus journey or something I can just call up instapaper on my phone…”

  14. Four areas where mobile IL varies – What? • “I did install a trainline.com app … when I was coming back from a gig in Manchester we got off one stop too far down the line so I was trying to find the train times to come back…”

  15. Four areas where mobile IL varies – How? “Where I’ve a preferred provider for any time of information … my first port of call would normally be their website … (or) … an app if it was a website I would always go for that sort of information…”

  16. Four areas where mobile IL varies – Time spent? “I just love the thought of not being tethered to go and fire up the old laptop or desktop machine…” “old laptop” from http://www.flickr.com/photos/running_like_an_antelope/2307016308/

  17. Four areas where mobile IL varies “It’s interesting that having something like this (iPhone) will allow you to kind of delegate remembering facts and free you up for kind of critical thinking…”

  18. Searching for information is Quick & Easy Searching can be social Information needs are contextual Our memory can be outsourced Information is constantly pushed to us Mobile internet acting as a bridge between devices Aspects of mobile IL (from my own research)

  19. So what does this mean? • Do we need to: • think about what search tools our users want via mobile? • learn new tools to move information between devices? • Learn how to extract information online and organise it via mobiles?

  20. Game Based Learning • Few examples? Inc Lemon tree

  21. What is gamification?

  22. Lemontree

  23. Lemontree

  24. Initial sign ups

  25. Promotion

  26. Future developments

  27. Final question? Polleverywhere?

  28. Thanks for listening… Material from this talk at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/ More stuff from me at: http://bit.ly/staffpageAW I’m at a.p.walsh@hud.ac.ukor @andywalsh999 on Twitter

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