Where Technology and Information Literacy Meet: Interactive Web-based Tutorials for Lifelong Learning

1. Where Technology and Information Literacy Meet: Interactive Web-based Tutorials for Lifelong Learning Pamela Jackson, San Diego State University Bridget Kowalczyk, San José State University February 3, 2006 SCIL

2. Why Make Web-based Education a Priority for InfoLit Instruction? • Students’ educational expectations • Convenience of virtual space • Reaching the masses

3. Enhancing Information Literacy Instruction with Tutorials • Allows for progressive reinforcement of information literacy concepts • Time with students can be more advanced and student-centered in-person library instruction • Pre-college tutorials may help better prepare teens for college-level research

4. 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)

5. Designing and Managing a Web-Based Tutorial Project:What You’ll Need and Why

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Software and Technology Expertise • HTML • PHP • CSS (cascading style sheets) • JavaScript • SQL or Oracle • Macromedia Flash • Adobe Photoshop CS • Adobe Illustrator • Streaming Video and VoIP

10. Timeline to Complete the Average 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

11. TRAMS Tutorial • A series of interactive, web-based instructional modules for high school students • Modules based on the AASL Information Literacy Standards, ACRL Information Literacy Standards, and actual student assignments

12. 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.

13. The Result http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/trams/

14. ThanksQuestions/CommentsPresentation can be found online at:http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~pjackson/#Presentations