{"id":523,"date":"2018-08-08T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/?p=523"},"modified":"2018-08-08T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:23:05","slug":"royal-holloway-libteachmeet-whenever-wherever-information-literacy-online-19th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/posts\/523","title":{"rendered":"Royal Holloway LibTeachMeet Whenever, Wherever: Information Literacy Online 19th July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19<sup>th<\/sup> July, I took part in a LibTeachMeet at Royal Holloway University. \u00a0A chance for Librarians to meet and discuss the topic of \u2018Whenever, Wherever: Information Literacy Online\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that strikes you when you arrive is the amazing Founders Building \u2013 it is majestic and right next door is the brand new Davison Building housing the library.\u00a0 The new and old come together beautifully.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 56.45%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ReX6Ltyjek\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The building is named after Emily Davison the famous Suffragette and alumni of the University.\u00a0 Part of the building houses the archive collection which was previously held in less than ideal conditions in the Founders Building.\u00a0 As the University was previously a women\u2019s only college they keep an enormous Suffragette collection and on our tour we were lucky enough to see some Suffragette publications.<\/p>\n<p>However the main reason we were there was to listen to five speakers (including me!) from different universities looking at an array of different digital tools for delivering information literacy.<\/p>\n<p>First was Antonia Lewis from Goldsmiths, University of London who discussed the university\u2019s Academic Skills webpage, GIST -Goldsmiths Information Skills Tutorial.\u00a0 She used information from various sources including <a href=\"http:\/\/infosmart.gsa.ac.uk\/infosmart\/infosmart-define\/infosmart_02.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>InfoSMART<\/strong> <\/a>by Glasgow School of Art and felt that, at the time, it was a good starting place but over time it contained too much information and didn\u2019t really relate to the students.\u00a0 So, having identified that she needed to work closely with the Learning and Teaching department, she acquired funding to create a joint area which meant that a university wide resource could be created including skills on researching and using the library.\u00a0 Some of the resources she used included <strong>LibGuide<\/strong> and <strong>LibWizard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The next presenter was Katrina Le Bihan, from Richmond University &#8211; The American International University in London who showed <strong>CoConqr<\/strong>.\u00a0 Katrina uses this for online and face to face quizzes.\u00a0 Other uses have been a card game at Middlesex University which embeds resources.<\/p>\n<p>Then I presented on our unique position of being a 100% online university and how a variety of resources are used to engage our students including Powerpoint recordings, Camtasia recordings, and the most vital tool to use \u2013 the monitoring of forums.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Gaterell and Josh Jenkin from University of Surrey took us through their journey of testing augmented reality (AR).\u00a0 They trialled the technology at their campus during the Sussex Community Festival using some pictures about the library, students, the buildings and some Sussex history! All the pictures had embedded information using <strong>HR Reveal<\/strong>.\u00a0 The main learning points from this exercise were:\u00a0 the need for fairly unique pictures so that the software is not confused about the information it sends, a good wi-fi connection, shelf-life has to be considered and good instructions are needed as clarification can\u2019t be given.\u00a0 The potential usages are seen in areas such as information points e.g bookshelves, self-serve areas etc and possible induction activities around a treasure hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least Emilia Brzozowska-Szczecina from Royal Holloway spoke about <strong>iorad<\/strong>, a tutorial builder making guided step-by-step screen directions.\u00a0 She used the free software to record web navigation as and when was required via email to students.\u00a0 This seems to be the tool that most delegates felt they could use after the event!<\/p>\n<p>So as you can see a diverse amount of tools to use to get across Literacy Information in our ever changing world of higher education delivery.<\/p>\n<p>As a reflection piece I was asked \u2018What will you do as a result of attending Royal Holloway\u2019s LibTeachMeet?\u2019 to which I replied \u201cSpending time looking at free resources to answer ad hoc queries but also using these to create quick access help features.\u00a0 But most importantly attend the next LibTeachMeet!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Royal Holloway University for an enriching day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19th July, I took part in a LibTeachMeet at Royal Holloway University. \u00a0A chance for Librarians to meet and discuss the topic of \u2018Whenever,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}