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Preparing 21st Century Teens for Lifelong Learning: A Collaborative, Interactive, Web-Based Tutorial Project
Bridget Kowalczyk, San José State University
Pamela Jackson, San Diego State University
June 10, 2006 LOEX-of-the-West
Kohala (Kona) Coast of Hawaii's Big Island
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Public & Academic Library Collaboration: Playing on
Strengths• Public Library strengths:
– Established relationships with High School Teachers and School Library Media Specialists
– Teens Reach Group– Knowledge of California Dept. of Education Content Standards
and Curriculum Frameworks
• Academic Library strengths:– Experience infusing information literacy into the curriculum – Experience creating learning objectives and outcomes – Experience with creating content and quizzes for online
tutorials – Technical support for the creation and maintenance of online
tutorials – Continuing education opportunities in assessment,
instructional design,… – Budget to support the Information Literacy Program – Established relationships with departments on campus
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Web-Based Tutorials:Changing the Way We
Teach Information Literacy
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Why Make Web-based Education a Priority for InfoLit
Instruction?
• Students’ educational expectations
• Convenience of virtual space
• Reaching the masses
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Enhancing Information Literacy Instruction with
Tutorials• Allows for progressive reinforcement
of information literacy concepts
• In-person instruction with students can be more advanced and student-centered
• Pre-college tutorials may help better prepare teens for college-level research
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Concepts Taught via Teen Information Literacy
Tutorial• Developing a Research Topic• Writing a Thesis Statement• Identifying Popular and Scholarly
Literature• Understanding and Recognizing Primary
Research• Researching Pro/Con issues• Listening and Note Taking• Plagiarism• And much more!
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Student Learning Outcomes
Popular vs. Scholarly Module
Learning Objective(s): – Student learns to recognize the difference
between popular and scholarly journals based on author, audience, language, appearance, references, and status (peer-reviewed or not).
Assessment of Learning Outcome(s):– Step 1: Prequiz to determine student's
understanding of the concepts to be taught. – Step 2: Tutorial Quiz results measure student's
understanding of the concepts taught in the corresponding module.
– Step 3: Student's ability to apply the concepts taught in successful completion of the corresponding high school assignment.
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Measuring Student Learning
• Quizzes at the end of each module test students’ knowledge upon completion.
• Quiz data can be used to tailor content of both library and course instruction.
• Library is able to provide teachers and librarians with data about their students’ knowledge.
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Quizzes and Queries
• Students register to take a tutorial. • Quiz scores are automatically emailed
to the student upon completion. • Results are stored in a local database.• Queries allow us to see quiz scores by
class, student, semester (includes class averages and scores by question).
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Automated Email Received from Tutorial
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Emailed Quiz Results
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Query by Student Name and School
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Developing and Managing our Web-Based Teen
Tutorial Project:
Resources, Staffing, Budget
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Development Team
• Librarians and the Information Literacy Specialist responsible for creating the content and quizzes, and overseeing the overall direction of the tutorial
• Two Programmers responsible for HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and back-end Oracle quiz databases and queries
• Two Graphic Artists/Designers responsible for the artwork, Flash animations, and overall look of the tutorial
• Sound engineer and/or digital media specialist to record voiceovers
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Information Technology / Web Team Support
• A web server dedicated to tutorial projects
• Ability to support the exploration of a
variety of technologies for instruction
• Dedicated personnel
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Budget
• Ongoing, committed support for programming and graphic design
• Funding, as needed, to keep up with the times and try new, interactive technologies to reach 21st century learners
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Software and Technology Expertise
– HTML– PHP– CSS (cascading style sheets)– JavaScript– Relational Database (e.g., MySQL or Oracle)– Macromedia Flash– Adobe Photoshop CS– Adobe Illustrator– Streaming Video and VoIP– Browser Compatibility
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Accessibility
• ADA Requirements• ADA issues with Flash Animations• Voice Over• Alt Tags for Images
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Timeline to Complete a Tutorial
• Tutorials are ongoing projects—they take significant time and nurturing
• Average time to build a short, solid tutorial from start to finish can be a little as 3-6 months, but typically takes longer
• Initial tutorials are usually launched and “tinkered” with every few months
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TRAMS: A Tutorial for Teens
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TRAMS Tutorial
• A series of interactive, web-based instructional modules for high school students
• Modules based on the AASL Information Literacy Standards and actual student assignments
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TRAMS Collaboration: How many minds does it take to
create a teen tutorial?• Bridget Kowalczyk, SJSU’s Information Literacy Specialist• Pamela Jackson, SDSU’s Information Literacy Librarian, formerly
a librarian at SJSU• Andrea Schacter, SJPL Youth Services Librarian• Dawn Imada, SJPL Youth Services Librarian• Hilary Langhorst, SJPL Web Team Programmer• Jie (Jessie) Cai, Chirag Bhalgami, Veer Vivek Kaushik,
Programmers • Wan Si Wan, Eric Szeto, and Nobuko Kimura, SJSU students in
Graphic Design and Animation/Illustration.• Mike Adams, TRFT Chair & Ramon Navarro Johnson, KSJS disc
jockey: character voiceovers and technical support/use of the KSJS recording studio to capture voiceovers.
• Chuck Manthe, Theater instructor and Lincoln High School and none high school theater students providing character voiceovers.
• Two local high school teens, consulting the team on ways to present interesting content to their peers.
• Focus groups with teensReach, a youth council for the San José Public Library.
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The Result
http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/trams/
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ThanksQuestions/Comments
Bridget KowalczykInformation Literacy
SpecialistSan Jose Staté University
Pamela JacksonInformation Literacy
LibrarianSan Diego State [email protected]
Presentation and handouts can be found online at:Presentation and handouts can be found online at:http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~pjackson/#Presentations
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Other Tutorials Available at SJSU • Library Essentials
– Library Basics– InfoPower– 5 Ways– Plagiarism: The Crime of Intellectual
Kidnapping• Subject-Specific
– Company Information Tutorial – Computer Science 100w – Health Professions 100w (down for revision)– LOTSS (for library school students)
• Prospective Students– Stairway to Success– TRAMS (coming soon to a computer near you)