APLA 2003 - Saturday, May 24, 2003 - #310 Updated with one or two extras since the session! Program integrated instruction: putting the pieces together Margy Macmillan Instructional Librarian, Mount Royal University Sponsored by the APLA Library Instruction Interest Group What we had was pretty good .... Strong program of course-integrated instruction (450 classes/yr and counting!) Great working relationships with individual teaching faculty (civilians) (traditional high profile of instruction librarians on committees, as sources of tech expertise etc.) Campus support for information retrieval and evaluation as an outcome (= brownie points for civilians who use it.) (Curriculum Renewal/Outcomes page) But we wanted more .... we wanted it all! We knew there were gaps and repetitions (reference sources missing, everyone had to go through databases every class.) Programs were becoming slightly better integrated in quest for outcomes (mandate from institution to develop program-based curriculum plans and articulate outcomes, including ours in course outline.s) We had more complex tools to introduce to advanced students - and needed to make coming back to the library worth the trip (Students often say they've had a session before - we can promise each time will be different.) Be careful what you wish for... Meeting to integrate content still a new concept for civilians (Teaching is largely an autonomous and oddly solitary pursuit - integrating library skills meant being more aware of what was going in on other classes) Victims, perhaps of our own success ( We went from 3 to 7 courses in chemistry, most of them multi-section, then biology got to hear of it and they want more too - also for large, multi section cohorts.) Maintenance required to keep civilians from straying from the program (They get their own, odd little ideas and want to change things regardless of how it affects the totla program.) What made it interesting... Developing new workshops in Chemistry • • Chemistry 0115 - very basic high school makeup course - keeping it light Chemistry 2203 (Word)- The dead chemist - PBL-ish introduction to CRC and other books Developing a new program for Journalism • • Local information sources for Newsroom II PBL for Journalism and the Law Developing new ways of teaching • • Problem-based learning - learning to let go was basically the problem Working online, within a Blackboard course What we still have to do... Well - there's the obvious absence of assessment... but we're working on that • Research Project - http://www2.mtroyal.ca/~mmacmillan/research.htm - please try it out if you like and let me know how it goes - I'll be updating the resumé form and sample over the summer. • FAST software for feedback - http://www.getfast.ca Sustainability - can we keep up with demand? (Too few librarians, too many of whom are on 'soft money'.) Maintenance - students find new ways to do the assignments, and there's always a new resource/course/teaching technique/civilian/etc. For more information o o o Visit the library site and check out worksheets - http://library.mtroyal.ca Visit my site - http://www2.mtroyal.ca/~mmacmillan Email me - mmacmillan@mtroyal.ca Resources Please feel free to steal/borrow/adapt any of these - let me know how it goes! Chemistry • • • • • • • CHEM 0115 - Basic Chemistry I - using the reserves and other library resources to help with the course CHEM 0130 - Basic Chemistry II - Presentations on chemicals - using Google well, using databases, books CHEM 2201 - General Chemistry I - Poster sessions - Nobel-winning chemistry Using Google, databases with more advanced concepts CHEM 2203 - General Chemistry II - The Dead Chemist (Word) - using CRC Handbook, other print sources - chemical information lingo - CAS, LD50 etc CHEM 3350 - Organic Chemistry I - Pharmaceutical Industry Chemical Processes CHEM 3351 - Organic Chemistry II - Environmental Impact of Chemicals CHEM 3357 - Industrial Organic Chemistry - capstone course - Major assignment is siting a chemical plant in Alberta (We couldn't fit 3357 in this past year, but used the materials in 3351) Journalism The scheduling of library sessions has changed in the two years we've done the program and will change again next year - these are all the sessions we've done for journalism students that I'll be reworking for next year. • • • • • • • ACOM 2211 - Newswriting and Reporting I - (2001/2002 academic year) o Part 1 - Journalists on Journalism - difference between academic writing and news writing - too much too soon o Part 2 - The Local Issue - reference collection, news databases, catalogue for information on Calgary issues - also maybe too much too soon o Part 3 - Sources for Sources - a.k.a. hunting humans - this one worked the best and will be part of next year's offerings in 2221 ACOM 2221 - Newswriting and Reporting II - Business news - (2001/2002 academic year) ACOM 2227 - Journalism and the Law - this has been a capstone course but is now a second year course. o 2001/2 - Recap of information cycles, where to find what, deep web and other searching, legal information o 2001/2 - Recap of news database searching and web news search engines o 2002/3 - Problem Based Learning - what do journalists need to know about the law? ACOM 3331 - Newsroom 1 - This course produces aweekly local newspaper Researching local sites and recap of finding people ACOM 4417 - New media (2001/2) - Internet evaluation - This was a final course but is now a first year course ACOM 4481- Magazine Production- Internet evaluation ACOM 4415 - History of Journalism - no actual worksheet, but a good seminar on 21st century journalism