Browsing by Author "Huisman, Rhonda K."

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    6 Degrees of Information Literacy: How faculty, students, and administration are linked to (Kevin Bacon)— wait, a librarian
    (2013-04-15) Huisman, Rhonda K.
    Librarians and library services can be critical in helping students make connections across campus, through their work with faculty assignments, providing reference services, or collecting subject or interdisciplinary materials. However, one of the most interesting ways students can engage with library-related services is by understanding and applying information literacy skills, not only to their research papers, but extending their critical thinking, evaluating, and application abilities to other situations. Information literacy permeates and can be mapped to not only curriculum in themed learning communities, but other academic units across the campus. Instead of library one-shot sessions which simply explain services, information literacy can be thought of as a real-life skill, connected in “6-Degrees” beyond the campus
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    Bridging the Gaps: Collaboration in a Faculty and Librarian Community of Practice on Information Literacy
    (University Press of Colorado, 2016) Kissel, Francia; Wininger, Melvin R.; Weeden, Scott R.; Wittberg, Patricia A.; Halverson, Randall S.; Lacy, Meagan; Huisman, Rhonda K.
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    College Ready, College Bound
    (2013-08-23) Huisman, Rhonda K.
    We convened a group of local and campus constituents as an advisory board, with representatives from IUPUI School of Education, Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana Department of Education, K-12 schools in Marion County, and IUPUI University library board members. We utilized their expertise and community connections to create successful and sustainable partnerships by focusing on: • Commitment to build upon the strengths and resources of the K-12 school librarians, teachers, administrators, and community members. • Commitment to addressing problems and focusing on positives, and promotion of a process that actively addresses social inequalities • Ongoing attention to involvement of all members across phases of the research, which meant active, inclusive, and numerous meetings and conversations with the school librarians, and many opportunities for feedback • Dissemination of findings and knowledge gained to all partners
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    Faculty and Librarians in First-­Year Seminars: Partnerships in Pedagogy
    (IUPUI University Library, 2011-03-24) Huisman, Rhonda K.
    Many have discussed the benefits of librarians collaborating with faculty, but agree that “The campus library may historically be the centerpiece of institutional life on college and university campuses, but many first-year students think it is largely irrelevant to their lives” (Barefoot, 2006). As part of an instructional team in the First-Year Seminars (FYS), librarians have more contact with students beyond the traditional one-shot session or speed tour through the stacks, and relationships between librarians and faculty are crucial to their success.
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    Lifelong learning: Moving beyond the library degree?
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/5/288.full, 2011-05) Huisman, Rhonda K.
    Describes the decision to continue taking courses towards an advanced degree, as well as personal or professional factors in motivation for this decision.
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    Now you see it: Transparency in instruction and assessment
    (2013-04-05) Huisman, Rhonda K.
    NILOA (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment) offers those faculty, administrators, peer institutions, and librarians a wealth of information concerning all forms and types of assessment on a campus. Librarians can utilize this framework on their own website to show connections between learning, assessment, and institutional goals, while also building relationships with faculty, administration, and other campus constituents that have an interest in assessment documentation.
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    A Picture is Worth 150 Words: Using Wordle to Assess Library Instruction
    (Pierian Press, 2011) Huisman, Rhonda K.; Hanna, Kathleen A.
    Making library instruction interactive and engaging is no easy feat, and assessment of the standard one-shot visit can be difficult. Librarians need a simple and fast method for evaluation of learning. The one-minute paper is an effective way to generate immediate feedback from students, but student responses often consist of “everything seemed clear” or other vague statements. We decided to try to repurpose this widely-used technique by incorporating a visual imagery tool. Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) offered an active and entertaining method for soliciting responses from students and assessing what they learned during library instruction sessions by the creation of word clouds.
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    Project Based Learning: Faculty and Librarian Partners in Pedagogy
    (2013-03-18) Huisman, Rhonda K.
    This [poster]session will define Project-Based Learning (PBL), including the methodology, structure, resources, and ideas for collaboration between teachers, faculty and librarians. Project-Based Learning provides for unique, effective, and authentic classroom experience for students at all levels (K-12 and higher education). There is a strong research component in PBL units, which gives librarians the opportunity to engage in deeper and interconnected pedagogy, including the integration of information literacy skills and standards. When students are presented with a real-world, authentic problem to solve, they are empowered in their learning. Through this critical thinking process, they discover resources including new and emerging technologies, connections in their community, as well as recognizing reliable, authoritative resources. The curricular restructuring and adaptation of this type of instructional process involves extensive planning, collaboration, and training, but students report a higher level of understanding, deeper acquisition of knowledge, and personal investment when involved in PBL. Librarians are integral in providing the resources and supporting the research needs of both students and teachers when developing a PBL unit.
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    A Scanner Darkly: Retooling the Tools for Environmental Scans
    (2013-04-08) Emery, Katie; Huisman, Rhonda K.; Lacy, Meagan; Staum, Sonja
    See how a small group of librarians gathered partners across campus to conduct an environmental scan of their instructional program. We took a long workbook (Analyzing Your Instruction Environment, published by ACRL) and transformed a large checklist of data into surveys, focus groups and reports while bringing in stakeholders and disseminating results.
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    We've wordled: Have you?
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/9/522.full, 2011-10) Huisman, Rhonda K.; Miller, Willie; Trinoskey, Jessica
    The article describes the use of the word-cloud generator, Wordle, by three subject librarians at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, in various aspects of library instruction and outreach.