Using WebCT, Wiki Spaces, and e-Portfolios for Teaching and Building Information Literacy Skills -- I found a lot of similarities in what this presenter was talking about to our "in process" CourseLibData pages. She created modules for different classes with specific resources for those classes. She had them in a repository of sorts (something I continue to check with Kayla on to see if D2L's can be turned on, but no luck yet!) and they were imported to classes as appropriate. Her initial focus was the nursing program. This librarian talked about how much success she had because she could back up what she was doing with research -- she said once her subject faculty understood she was following pedagogy, they understood she was more than capable of teaching within their course. RE: e-portfolios -- she said the best part of this tool was after doing library instruction with students, she was able to see some of the successes (or failures as the case may be) to their searching. Students would complete an e-portfolio and invite her has a guest to view it and she could see the sources they used for their project.
Building a Virtual Campus: Librarians as Collaborators in Online Course Development and Learning -- This was a very interesting presentation! The librarian (who is new to the profession and was a conference award recipient) did a wonderful job with her powerpoint by having the perfect amount of info on each screen and adding good supplemental info during her talk, rather than reading from the powerpoint. Plus her topic was pretty interesting, too :) They have been able to be involved in the creation of online courses upfront -- they work as part of a team to design a course (graphic artist, subject matter expert, course designer, librarian). They work from a course blueprint which shows learning outcomes/steps, learning activities, review assessments, and assets. Assets are specific things assigned to the librarian and graphic artist to find or create. For example, she talked about being asked to find supplemental resources for (I think it was) an anatomy class and she found a great video clip on YouTube that was inserted into the online course. She also had "assets" from Flickr, a website, and an article from a database. I would love to see our college implement more of a process for creation of new courses -- and one of the steps would be checking in with a librarian about options to incorporate such as online videos, YouTube clips, article links from databases (this process will hopefully get easier as we move to EZProxy in the next month or so...), and so on. I was pretty excited after this session!
How May We Help You? Online Education Faculty Tell Us What They Need from Libraries and Librarians -- Unfortunately, this wasn't a great one for me to end the conference on. I liked the idea of what they did surveying faculty re: needs, awareness of services, etc., but I think they presented "too soon." They kept saying, 'we're going to have to look into that' or 'we aren't really sure what they mean by that' or 'we need to do more marketing.' But they never really gave us anything concrete they had done based on their survey...maybe it's more clear in their paper.
My MN colleagues also retrieved a handout for me from the Creation, Management, and Assessment of Library Screencasts: The Regis Libraries Animated Tutorials Project that they attended at the first session when I was in the WebCT one. They said it was a great presentation - lots of info and somewhat overwhelming. More fun stuff to explore!
I was thinking this was my 3rd OCLS conference, but it's just my 2nd...it's a wonderful, targeted conference. I hope to attend again in a few years.
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