Virtual presentation for the Designing for Digital Conference, Austin, TX.

1. Retrofitting first-year English critical
thinking and information literacy
instruction sessions for remote digital
presentation, while maintaining an
engaged and interactive user experience
Derek Malone
University of North Alabama

2. Background:
● First-year sequence (FYE 101 - EN 111 - EN 112)
● FYE 101 & EN 111 have one required visit;
● EN 112 visits twice;
● Library familiarization - critical thinking - information literacy.

3. Background:
Things are going really well in our first-year instruction sequence.
Engagement is extremely high.
The entire hour is interactive with feedback.

4. In-class activities
FYE - Escape Room

5. In-class activities
EN 111 - Critical thinking, web verification, social media exploration

6. In-class activities
EN 112 - Information Literacy, Evaluation, and Research Techniques

7. Changing it up, going online
We prefer in-person courses, but understand that there are circumstances that
dictate a need for an online version of our content.

8. With that said…..
FYE is going to stay, for now, in-person only.
We aren’t planning on replicating the escape room digitally, and it’s going
extremely well in-person.

9. EN 111
Reasons for online options:
● Class is either entirely online or hybrid;
● Missed attending their session.

10. EN 112
Reasons for online options:
● Class is either entirely online or hybrid;
● Missed attending their session(s);
● Possible 3rd session.

11. How we’re accommodating
EN 111 & 112:
● Online lecture modules;
● Can be standard or custom;
● Provided via LibGuides.

12. How we’re accommodating
Activities - some work, some don’t;

13. Activities
What works
● Comparison activity;
● Half image-website
evaluation.
What doesn’t work
● The other half image-
website evaluation;
● Sequence guessing game
(confirmation bias).

14. EN 111 has a simple goal - there is a ton of bad info
available

15. EN 111 follow-up for both in-class and online

16. EN 112
Works:
● CRAAP Test Activities &
Lecture for session 1;
● Research
Topics/Methodologies.
Doesn’t work:
● Feedback;
● Telephone game.

17. Supplements
Research Consultations

18. Supplements
Virtual Lectures/Meetings

19. Questions?
dmalone3@una.edu