Poster at ACRL Conference this Spring

My peeps from Colgate, Francesca Livermore (now at Yale) and Sarah Keen, Colgate Archivist, and I will be presenting a poster at the ACRL Conference in Indianapolis this April. The project, titled, "Making History: Using Digital Storytelling to Teach Discipline-specific Information Practices to Undergraduates," describes our collaboration with two history faculty at Colgate to develop information and primary source literacies in an undergraduate history course using a digital storytelling model. The students researched and constructed a short documentary film about the history of Colgate using primary visual and textual source materials from the University Archives.

If you attend the ACRL conference this year, please do stop by our poster session. 

Article now available in January issue of C&RL News

Find our article about IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) in the January issue of College and Research Libraries (C&RL) News. As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, this article (written by my Purdue colleagues Tomalee Doan and Catherine Fraser Riehle and myself) discusses Purdue's IMPACT program, which is a collaborative effort by several departments to aid faculty in redesigning courses to make them more student-centered. It provides an excellent opportunity for embedding information literacy into courses because we are there when teachers are making curricular and pedagogic decisions.