Podcasting with a Purpose: Possibilities for Library Instruction

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Podcasting with a Purpose Possibilities for
Library Instruction
Rachael Clemens, Cal State Fullerton
rclemens_at_fullerton.edu Computers in Libraries
April 2007
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Itemized List of Presentation

• Description of my pilot project
• Mechanics of these podcasts
• Evaluation tool and feedback
• Budget time money
• Questions / suggestions from you

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Podcasting Pilot Project

• Objective Determine feasibility of delivering
  library instruction to students via audio/video
  podcast

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Podcasting Pilot Project

• Study Group
• Voluntary participation of students in 5 sections
  of NURS 505 (n 43 graduate students)
• Methods
• Initial survey of nursing faculty to identify
  research expectations
• Create instruction podcasts
• 60 attend face-to-face library instruction
  session
• 40 offered online module complement only
• Evaluation tool administered to both groups at
  end of semester
• Survey of participating students

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Nursing Faculty Survey Responses

• How do you expect your students to learn to
  effectively utilize library resources and
  services?

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Nursing Faculty Survey Responses

• If you teach primarily graduate students, please
  rate the average library skill level of your
  students as they begin the term

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Nursing Faculty Survey Responses

• In terms of library skills, what do you feel is
  important for your students to know in order to
  be successful in their coursework?

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Podcasts Module Topics

• Welcome
• What is Peer-Review?
• CINAHL
• PubMed
• Cochrane Library
• Getting the Full-text
• Citing in APA

• 8. Using Interlibrary Loan
• 9. Finding Books
• 10. Evaluating Webpages
• 11. Services for Distance
• Education Students
• 12. Using RefWorks

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Podcasts Creation Tasks

• Determine organize content
• Write script
• Create PPT slides (capture screens, minimal text)
• Practice
• Record (my office, FDC, campus studios)
• Edit, redo, edit more
• Post on website, add RSS, submit to iTunes

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http//faculty.fullerton.edu/rclemens/nursing.htm
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Camtasia 4
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QuickTime Pro
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Mediasite
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Budget
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Time Budget
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Time 6-Minute Audio-Only Podcast
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Time 6-Minute VideoAudio Podcast
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Evaluation Tool

• In-class timed literature search
• Database choices
• Search terms
• Identify appropriate published clinical trials
• Mechanics of obtaining full-text
• Citation format

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Evaluation Tool Test Results
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Survey Results
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Survey Results
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Survey Results
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Survey Results
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Survey Results
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Survey Results
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Survey Results
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• I believe that the podcast is beneficial to many
  students and should be an option
• Library session was very helpful. I learn the
  most with in class instruction.

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• I enjoyed many aspects of the in-class session,
  but being able to access online refreshers would
  be helpful to address specific issues during
  independent study time.
• If brief, problem-specific tutorials were
  available for common research related issues, I
  would probably access them.

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Questions / Suggestions?
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Thoughts on podcasting

• Assist students with making the transition from
  the recreational use of technology to academic
  use of technology
• Net Gen Students Learning, Technology and
  Libraries
• Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked
  Information
• JISC/CNI Conference, July 7, 2006
• Maybe academics need to get up to speed on the
  recreational use of technology
• Rachael Clemens, snide comment

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Rachael Clemens, Cal State Fullerton
rclemens_at_fullerton.edu http//faculty.fullerton
.edu/rclemens/Nursing.htm