For immediate release | June 8, 2015

Returning eCourse: Putting the 'Pop' in Information Literacy

Putting the "Pop" in Information Literacy eCourse

91´«Ã½

CHICAGO — 91´«Ã½ Editions announces a new iteration of its popular eCourse . Dawn Stahura will serve as the instructor for this five-week facilitated eCourse starting on July 13, 2015.

Dawn Stahura will offer you two tools that can make it easy to liven up your instructional sessions—popular culture and assessment. Learn how to incorporate pop culture into your instruction —through your weekly assignments, you’ll build a fully defined, one-shot instructional session using a popular-culture theme. Along the way, you’ll learn about how you can effectively assess your instruction by engaging with students to discover your strengths and weaknesses.

After participating in this eCourse, you will:

  • understand how to adequately assess your instructional sessions;
  • understand how you can incorporate popular-culture themes and narratives into one-shot instructional sessions and full-length information literacy courses;
  • be able to create a fully defined, one-shot instructional session using a popular-culture theme.

eCourse outline

  • Week 1: Introductions, Assumptions We are Making and the Problem We are Facing
  • Week 2: Solutions! Bringing Pop Culture Themes into Information Literacy
  • Week 3: Scenario 1—Database Instruction
  • Week 4: Scenario 2—Evaluation and Citing Sources
  • Week 5: Assessing Your Sessions and Course Conclusion

About the Instructor

Dawn Stahura is a research services librarian at Simmons College, specializing in Africana Studies, Sociology, Education, Psychology and Women and Gender Studies. She has taught information literacy courses using the premise of a zombie apocalypse to engage students in the material, and she currently teaches one-shot instructional sessions. Stahura recently co-authored the article “Teaching with Zombies: Bringing Information Literacy Back from the Dead,” which appeared in the July issue of C&RL News.

Registration for this 91´«Ã½ Editions facilitated eCourse, which begins on July 13, 2015, can be purchased at the . Participants in this course will need regular access to a computer with an internet connection for online message board participation, viewing online video, listening to streaming audio (MP3 files), and downloading and viewing PDF and PowerPoint files.

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