1. Making It Relevant: Creating Engaging IL Experiences for Students
Collaboration
Instruction
Supported by a grant from Gettysburg College’s Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning, two librarians and a professor redesigned a 300-level Health Sciences course. The main goal was to integrate information literacy (IL) throughout the assignments. Through the process of drafting grant proposals, students were required to identify and use a variety of information sources, including statistics, journal articles and intervention studies. The final product resulted in the students participating in a mock National Institutes of Health (NIH) peer review panel.
Word cloud of intervention keywords.
Meet with faculty EARLY
Help refine/shape assignments
Librarian office hours
Faculty participate in IL sessions
Librarians participate in Peer Review panel
Coordinated assessment
In-class source evaluation activity
Break into sizable chunks
Design “just in time” assignment-driven IL sessions
Build upon previous session(s) & knowledge
Include engaging activities (see handout)
Assignments
Using Post-its to create a student-driven word cloud
Kayla Lenkner & Meggan Smith