This document discusses flipping the classroom approach for EndNote instruction. The author began offering in-person EndNote workshops but found not everyone could attend. To make the content accessible asynchronously, the author created streaming tutorial videos using Screencastify. The tutorials were published on YouTube and embedded in a LibGuides page. This allowed instruction to reach more students beyond just the in-person workshops. The tutorials have been popular with an average of 34 views per month. The author plans to update the tutorials using new software to improve on limitations of the original tool. Providing the content online supplements and expands beyond the traditional in-person classroom model of instruction.

1. Flipping the Classroom for
EndNote Instruction
Lightning Talk by:
Roman Koshykar
RIT Libraries
2nd Joint URRCL/RIT Library Staff Conference
June 15, 2017

2. Problem with EndNote instruction
• First began offering in-person instruction
session in September 2007
• Most efficient to offer once per semester
• Problem: not everyone is available to attend
in-person workshops!

3. Solution?
• By Fall Semester 2014, it was clear that
there was a need for an asynchronous
version of my session
• Proposal: create streaming demos of my
EndNote instruction session!

4. Creating the tutorials
• Considered several technologies for creating the tutorials
• Adobe Connect - NO
• Adobe Captivate - NO
• Anything else out there?
• Our course media specialists clued me into Screencastify
• Chrome add-on
• Pros: Free, easy to use
• Cons: Only get one take, no editing/post-production features in
free version

5. Streaming tutorials made public
• Captioned tutorials first posted to YouTube –
October 2014
• Tutorials embedded into a LibGuides page –
August 2015
• LibGuides page given a custom URL for easier
sharing

6. Current status?
• Streaming tutorials have been a hit!
• LibGuides page has been viewed an average of 34 times a
month
• Demonstrated functions still work, but EndNote interface
looks quite different now
• Goal is to have updated tutorials by the start of next Fall
Semester using Camtasia
• Much more flexibility than Screencastify
• Solves my single-take and captioning issues

7. Why is this “flipping the classroom?”
• Present content of my session to anyone who cannot attend
in-person session
• Streaming tutorials can ALSO supplement the in-person
session
• Posting to LibGuides makes them available anytime,
anywhere
• Not limiting instructional touch to once a semester
• Providing instruction to cohorts who would not get to see
me otherwise (online learners, global campuses)

8. See for yourself!
http://infoguides.rit.edu/endnote/endnotetutorials