Student-Generated Comics as

Information Literacy Narratives

Telling Stories

About the Library

Matt UpsonAssistant ProfessorReference and Instruction LibrarianEmporia State Universitymupson@emporia.edu

@thunderbrarian

Alex MuddAssistant ProfessorReference and Instruction LibrarianEmporia State Universityamudd@emporia.edu

@alexlibrismudd

Rationale

• UL100 Information Literacy and Technology

• 2 credit hours

• Focus on the Research Process

• Online Portfolio

• Reflective Component

Rationale

• Information Literacy Narratives*

• Student need to be heard

• A way to reflect and summarize

• Critical thinking and questioning assumptions

• Framing themselves as characters

• The drama and conflict of research

• An attempt to validate student experience

• Opportunities for more authentic assessment

• Potential overall improvement of student

learning

*Adapted from Detmering R., and Johnson A.M. “‘Research Papers have Always Seemed Very Daunting’: Information Literacy Narratives and the Student Research Experience.” Portal 12.1 (2012): 5–22

Rationale

• Complementing with a Comic

• Visual Literacy

• The Flipped Classroom

• Participatory Technologies

The Assignment

• Goals

• Equipment

• Prep

• Implementation

• Script Component

• Comic Component

Script Sample

PAGE ONE – A focus on topic development and overall reflection.Panel One: This panel shows a picture of Matt Upson talking at the front of the room about the research project. “blah ,blah, blah…Research…blah, blah, blah” Tina is also in the picture but to the side, sitting at computer listening to Matt.

Tina: Oh no, not ANOTHER research project…

Panel Two: A picture of me looking at a diesel book, but looking skeptical and confused. Tina(voiceover): I had chosen the topic of diesel technology, but as I began my research I started to realize how difficult that topic was actually going to be. Not only would it be difficult because I couldn’t find much information about it, but also because I don’t really know a lot about it.

• Assessment

• ACRL Standards• Standard One: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

• Standard Two: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

• Standard Three: 3.3., 3.4, 3.5, 3.6

• Standard Four: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

• Changes?

• Moving Forward – One shot sessions