Claudia+Derum

Course: Introduction to Information Literacy Task: Do a YouTube search on the topic of Information Literacy Objective: Write a compare and contrast critique of two different videos on the same subject. Method: Asynchronus
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 * Author: Claudia Derum**

Instruction: Submit your assignment as a PDF attachment using your college email. This assignment is due on February 14th at 11:55 p.m., one week from today.

Do a search on the YouTube site for two different videos on the subject of Information Literacy. Write a two page or less, compare & contrast paper describing the following points:

A. Why you selected each of these two videos for review?

B. What you liked or didn't like about each of your two selected videos?

C. How each of the videos selected informed or helped you understand the subject of Information Literacy?

D. Whether or not you would recommend each of these selected videos to others interested in the subject of IL?

E. Be sure to provide the URL address or a link to each of the two videos selected for your paper.

Critique of Claudia Derum's information literacy assignment by Christine Swartz:

Claudia, I like your use of YouTube for this assignment. Using this medium is much more fun than just reading articles about information literacy. The assignment also provides an opportunity for the students to share their understanding of the subject. Having the students discuss why they chose the particular YouTube gets them thinking critically about the subject they will be learning. You have incorporated a fun way to introduce your students to information literacy! Christine

====Feedback on Claudia Derum’s week two wiki entry by Howard Huth.==== ====Claudia, I also like your use of videos to engage the learner. I noticed there are 1490 videos, so that provides the students with plenty of choices. Did you note which chapter of Conrad you are using for your activity? In section D, you might add that the students should explain why they responded yes or no.==== ====Perhaps LeeAnn or anyone familiar with the instructor side of Bb can give me some insight with my next suggestion. It seems to me that with emailed assignments there is a greater burden on the instructor to collect and organize submitted assignments, whereas I assume that the Bb assignment manager does that for the instructor.====

Howard
​ Amy McWhorter’s critique of Claudia Derum’s activity: I really like how clear and specific the instructions for this activity are. There’s not a whole lot to add to the task as it is. I do see how one could incorporate group or classmate interaction into this task (or a similar compare/contrast kind of assignment). If students each choose 1 video and then partner up to discuss the key points (A-E) it would make a more interactive assignment. A wiki might be an appropriate forum to begin with. You could set a deadline for video selection and discussion that still gives students a few days to write their own papers.

Claudia, Let’s take this to the next step: Once students have written up their notes, how would you leverage this information among them? Are there a couple of videos that are particularly useful? How would students find this out? What if instead of a paper, you had them build an annotated resource list on a wiki or in a DB. Do everything you explained, but rather than submit it to you only, they submit it publicly to the class? Also—and I have failed to note this in a couple of other activities—generally you do not want to have students emailing you assignments. It can become a headache to manage. Additionally, if you create as an “assignment” in BB, it goes to the gradebook automatically. LeeAnn