my embedded world…or…how i got started as a librarian in blackboard

My Embedded World …or…

How I Got StartedAs a LibrarianIn Blackboard

Amanda PapeTarleton State University“Embedded Librarianship:The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”Panel presentation at Texas Library Association ConferenceFort Worth – April 27, 2013

Spring 2008 – Children’s Literature

Summer 2009 – teach the course

“Moving the Front Lines Online: Embedding Reference Librarians in Online

Classes” – April Aultman Becker

August 2010:

My History in Blackboard

Getting Faculty On BoardDemonstrations Word of Mouth

References

Make It Easy

What I LIKE about Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP 10:

Easy to AddContent Area

EmbedEye-catchingMashups

Put Powerpoints in Slideshare

www.slideshare.com

Slideshare good for step-by-step instructions

Include the Powerpoint as an attachment.

Upload screencasts to YouTube

Sometimes a YouTube video meets an immediate learning need

Illustrate your content

with Flickr mashups

Use Flickr photos to highlight library events or displays that tie into curriculum

What I HATE about Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP 10

Statistics are broken

Reports not

reliable

Informal Student Survey

What statistics I could pull from Blackboard this term indicate - of the students in this course accessed Library Resources content.88%

Not useful --------------------------------------Very useful

“I used it a lot this semester and it saved me time, and helped when I was working on things when the library was closed. “

Informal Survey of Tarleton Librarians

Assuming those who did not respond do not have a Blackboard log-in.

For those embedded: they are in 3 to 6 sections of 1 to 5 courses.

Library-specific discussion forum (read/posted) 1 14%

Read other course discussion forums 1 14%

Posted in other discussion forums 0 0%

Sent Blackboard e-mails/messages 1 14%

Replied to Blackboard e-mails/messages 2 29%

Announcements (you posted some) 1 14%

Added to library-specific content area 2 29%

Other 0 0%None of these 1 14%

Blackboard features used by other Tarleton embedded librarians

Comments:

“Great link to the online students who might otherwise feel like they have no library support.”

“appreciate the help and seem to benefit from it.” but “they use the embedded librarian feature very infrequently.”

Students in blended classes “are more inclined to call, email, or come to library to find me than they are to post their questions to Blackboard. Perhaps, if I get more proactive about posting relevant tips and materials, the students will take advantage of having access to librarian help via Blackboard. Still, they may not want to expose their questions to their classmates and/or teacher and will continue to not interact with me via Blackboard. Not sure at this point. “

Time will tell.

The Big Issue:

The

End

Image Credits

• Slide 1: Embedded world / Andrea / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spettacolopuro/3951480940/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/spettacolopuro/ / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ )

• Slide 5: Surfer named "Kody" balances on board, Morro Rock, Morro Bay, CA / Mike Baird / CC BY 2.0 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/4414594439/ /

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/ / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 )

• Slide 13: broken promise / clang boom steam / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/clangboomsteam/3725102290/ )/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/clangboomsteam/ / (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ )

• Slide 19: Hourglass / Jamie / CC BY 2.0 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiesrabbits/5640739307/ /

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiesrabbits/ / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ )

• Slide 20: Time / Thomas Hawk / CC BY-NC 2.0 (

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/4440874971/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/ / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ )

• Slide 21: The Passage of Time / Toni Verdú Carbó / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonivc/2283676770/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonivc/ / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ )

Amanda PapeCoordinator for Archives and Special ServicesDick Smith LibraryTarleton State UniversityBox T-0450Stephenville, TX 76402254-968-9251Twitter: @AmandaPapeMSLSpape@tarleton.eduhttp://bit.ly/SpecialServices