Introducing the IRIS42 Modules:

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Introducing the IRIS-42 Modules

• Information Research and Instruction Suite for
  2-year colleges

Presented by Kitty Mackey for Clark College
Fall Orientation 2008
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Why?

• TILT modules are popular, but outdated
• Students want shorter sessions
• Students want more point-of-need
• Content aimed at 4-year programs
• Quizzes are fluffy
• Plagiarism Module
• Designed for Clark College, but interface fraught
  with errors ?

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Why?

• E-learning
• Students need access to research instruction
• Faculty need tools for assessing Info Outcome
• Assessibility/ADA/Sec508
• Existing tutorials built on outdated foundation
• New model follows current recommendations
• Context for Library Handouts
• Duplicate face-to-face experience

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How?

• Grant , DL Council of WA, Summer 07
• To create learning objects to meet IL outcomes
• Specifically target CC students
• Collaborators 3-22-12
• Underestimated, Overdreamed needed more time
• Revised sabbatical project
• Work continued Winter Spring 2008

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Now

• Implement Fall 2008
• Work out bugs
• enhance images, activities, attachments
• Input from Faculty, Students, WA librarians
• End of Fall Q
• Discontinue TILT and Plagiarism modules
• Make files available to other WA CCs

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Inspired By

• Students of B. Hughess GRCP 210 Class
• Usability tested plagiarism module winter 07
• Designed, recommended , content, interface
• See what students inspired

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Makeover Project Web Site Before
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Student Makeover Projects
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After
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What to do with IRIS

• Assign the Quiz
• Assess what areas need most focus
• Use as before/after for assessing info outcome
• Assign one or all modules to students
• Use checklists
• Prepare students prior to attending library
  sessions
• Use in lieu of library sessions
• Use to supplement library sessions
• Librarians have supplemental activities

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Taming IRIS

• Fixes?
• Typos? Broken Links, strange, unexplainable
  occurrences?
• Ideas to improve or enhance?
• Tools
• IRIS wiki, fix-it page http//iris42.pbwiki.com/p
  age_fixes
• Or email Kitty, kmackey_at_clark.edu

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Lets Play!

• www.clark.edu/library/iris