Librarian Subject Meeting

Viewpoints Project: Overview and progress to date Dr Alan Masson, Karen Virapen, Catherine O’Donnell Technology Facilitated Learning, University of Ulster Librarian Subject Team Meeting – 5 th March 2010

Presentation summary
Introduction to Viewpoints
Info Skills strand – benefits for staff/students
Information Skills workshop outline
Interactive group activity
Consulting with librarians (how you can help)
Conclusion/ any questions

Viewpoints Overview
Viewpoints is a JISC-funded curriculum design project.
Its remit is to create a series of user-friendly reflective tools (in workshop and online format) to promote and enhance curriculum design.
The tools will help staff consider areas such as:
Information skills, assessment and feedback, creativity & innovation in teaching, and student interactions.

Information Skills strand: Benefits for staff and students
Helps staff to be more prepared as regards resources they might need when they come to meet library staff
Viewpoints can point staff to useful existing resources
Promote library and library website
Helps staff think about students’ info skills needs
Getting librarians more involved in course planning
Fostering links between staff and librarians
Chance to embed library information skill strategy
Library have a chance to input into our workshop process – help reinforce their own info skills work

Info Skills workshop: a summary
We are currently working on an activity-based workshop that aims to encourage reflection and creativity in information skills planning for courses, considering the student perspective.
We would welcome comments/suggestions from library on any aspect of the workshop to date
Online aspect – to be developed after the workshop
Uses worksheets (with a student timeline) and SCONUL-based information skills cards as prompts.
Staff will work together in groups to plan how to address students’ information skills needs.
Produce visual output.

The workshop: step by step
Staff work around a blank A0 laminate

The workshop – step by step
They are given sets of Information Skills cards, which are based around the SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy (and align to Ulster library’s new information skills strategy.)

Staff choose their objective at this point
They then put principle cards on the timeline, to represent that info skill pillar needed at that point in a course
They may have the same card in a few different places

Staff turn cards over and tick the examples most relevant
(whichever examples do students have most issues/problems with).

Step 4 – Staff think about how they might address their students’ information skills needs.
They write a brief plan in the area of timeline marked ‘your plan’
They should also think about how the library can help them achieve these principles – what sort of support they might need from the library.

Group Work Activity
Break into seven groups.
Each group will look at one Sconul pillar.
Each group will use worksheets and cards.
Can groups organise themselves so that someone takes on the role of the librarian, another the role of a module coordinator and the rest split into either course team or librarian team. Always try to consider student perspective also.
There will 3 tasks to complete followed by some group feedback.

Task 1 – Consider objective (5 min)
Read the objective on the worksheet.
Read the front of the card.
In your groups discuss if it clearly describes the pillar or suggest how it might need adjusted.
Make some notes about your group’s views.

Task 2 - Consider ideas (20 mins)
Read the ideas on the back of the card.
C onsider the ideas for each part of the student timeline (while thinking about possible tasks that may be required during induction, first few weeks, mid-semester and final phase. )
In your groups discuss if these ideas represent clearly how the pillar may be achieved or if you think they may need adjusted.
Make some notes and share any new ideas.
We request any feedback, positive or negative.

Task 3 – Tailoring the cards (15 mins)
Consider/ discuss/ suggest any ways that librarians can contribute to the further development of the workshop / cards to help us help teaching staff implement ideas to help their students achieve the pillars across a student timeline (10 mins)
Group Brainstorm (5 mins)

Group feedback (10 mins)
One or two members from each group briefly feed back your thoughts about the front and back of the cards.
(Approx 1 or 2 min each)

How you can help (your input)
Would like to consult with you on the following:
Draft workshop
Card content (front and back)
Embedding the library’s info skills strategy
Supporting resources/documentation
Potential outputs
How would you prefer to communicate?
Dedicated WebCT area
Email contact
Other

Conclusions
Any questions?
Evaluation form
Handouts

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http://viewpointsinfoskills.ning.com	21
http://viewpointsproject.blogspot.co.uk	10
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