Taking Knowing & Knowledge Afrom Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

Daniella HutchingsAnd

Mark Armstrong-Roper

K&K A is a key foundation unit in the Faculty of AEHD at Victoria University

• Each year around 500 first year students enrol in K&K A

• Library staff present 2 of the tutorials as Research Skills sessions with the content built around the assessment tasks.

• K&K A began in 1998 and is taught in face to face mode by lecture and tutorial. It’s been taught this way for a long, long time!

In the Classroom (oil on canvas) attributed to John Harris, c 1850. Courtesy of Bridgeman Education

K&K A Uses Traditional Teaching Methods

• Lectures delivered using PowerPoint.• Lectures are available on Webct and

eReserve as PowerPoint slides.• Library Research Skills sessions are

delivered using PowerPoint.• Our handouts for the students are

printouts of the PowerPoint slides.

There is a lot of PowerPoint!

What to do?

We had two goals:• More online content.• Make the presentation of

information more interesting.

We began in 2011 by creating a K&K A Lib Guide

But Powerpoint Refused to Die!

• A lot of the links on the K&K A Lib Guide were still to powerpoints...

• So we began, under the tutelage of Jane Miller, to embed YouTube videos and animations into the K&KA LibGudie and use them in our teaching:

‘How to Evaluate’ – YouTube Video

Rick’s Report Animation

Over the 2011 – 2012 Summer Break as part of the Emergent Technologies in Education Course:

We created Captivate Sessions to eliminate the last of the PowerPoints. Going...

From This..

To this Captivate Animation

For the K&K A session we have also created a research activity using

Wallwisher

Wallwisher Activity

• With the class divided into smaller groups they compete to be the first group to stick a post-it on the K&K A Wall with a refereed article on our chosen topic.

• We then discuss with the whole class the first correct answer. How did they find it so fast? How do they know it’s refereed?

And freed from PowerPoint our K&K A handouts can now

highlight all the interesting themes in the Library K&K A

sessions.

Thanks Mark!