Staffordshire University Information Literacy Community of Practice
The second workshop for 2008/9 will explore the theme Information literacy: Dialogue
It will take place at the Ashley Centre (Room LT114/6) on the Leek Road campus of Staffordshire University from 1.30-4.30 pm. The cost for each half-day is £30.
We are delighted to be able to give details for 4 March 2009
* Gareth Johnson, University of Leicester
Presentation title:
“The Weasel Dialogues: From script to screen for Information Literacy”
Abstract
Time and again it is advocated that librarianship is the communicating profession. But for many librarians communication is just something that we get on and do, but seldom take the time to think about in any great detail. Literature on learners’ comprehension and preferred instructional styles continue to show that variety, brevity and relevance are the key to successful engagement. So what is there that can be done to increase the impact and retention of our learners, whilst ensuring an effective and coherent message is retained?
In a word: edutainment. The coupling of an off-beat but educationally on-message concept delivery to achieve successful learner objectives and outcomes.
In this session Gareth, and friends from Weasel Televisual Enterprises, will examine how it is possible to communicate with greater impact through the use of carefully planned videos, flavoured with humour and irreverence, but containing good educational content nevertheless. He will illustrate how they can be used and share some of the success stories from his work.
* Chris Wakeman, Staffordshire University
Chris is an experienced educator and leads the postgraduate teaching awards at Staffordshire University. He will be examining how we can teach IL through a range of pedagogical methods such as, problem-based learning, dialectical learning and web quests. This will be an interactive session with plenty of opportunity to discuss the issues surrounding actively engaging our students.
For more information please visit:
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/suilcop/events/index.php