My InfoBuddy: Guided Tours Through Information Literacy With Online Avatars
- Conference Year
- Online Northwest 2011
- Session
- 4
- Type
- Lightning Talk
- Presenters
- Veronica Vichit-Vadakan, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
- Abstract
Online tutorials, e-learning classrooms and educational websites are quickly taking the place of classroom instruction in academic settings. This is especially true for libraries and librarians who have been at the forefront of developing instructional materials for the virtual world. This brief presentation will outline the work done at the University of Arizona to develop a semester-long online information literacy course, focusing on the use on animated avatars to guide the students through the course materials. I will explore the efficacy (and pitfalls!) of using online avatars, discuss animation tools available to librarians and examine students’ responses.
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