Instruction & Outreach
My current and previous positions have provided me with invaluable opportunities to learn and grow as a teacher. Teaching has become one of the areas of librarianship that I feel most passionate about and I continually experiment and pursue professional development opportunities that will help me become a skilled instructor, both in-person and online.
Examples include:
At Fresno State, I have served for several years as a proactive and engaged liaison to several departments in the College of Arts and Humanities and have worked with instructors to integrate information literacy into their curriculum via online tutorials and in-person workshops and appointments.
In addition, as our former Research Services Coordinator, I coordinated our instruction assessment efforts and was involved in several projects to assess students' information literacy skills.
Examples include:
- In 2021, I earned the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Credential in Effective College Instruction. Completed during the COVID-19 pandemic, this course allowed me to reconsider my approach to online teaching and learning and learn more about designing an effective learning environment, using active learning techniques, promoting higher order thinking, and incorporating assessment strategies to inform my approach to instruction.
- In 2017, I earned a Master of Science in Instructional Science & Technology from CSU Monterey Bay and, prior to that, completed a graduate certificate in Online Teaching and Learning from CSU East Bay in 2013. Both of these programs taught me a great deal about the pedagogy of online teaching, the instructional design process, assessment and research methods, and technology tools that can be used to facilitate learning.
- In 2013, I participated in the ACRL Immersion program's first Teaching with Technology Track. This was an amazing opportunity to learn from two experts in the field of library instruction, Tiffini Travis and Char Booth, and to work with other librarians to critically approach instructional technology and integrate instructional design principles into the development of a final project.
At Fresno State, I have served for several years as a proactive and engaged liaison to several departments in the College of Arts and Humanities and have worked with instructors to integrate information literacy into their curriculum via online tutorials and in-person workshops and appointments.
In addition, as our former Research Services Coordinator, I coordinated our instruction assessment efforts and was involved in several projects to assess students' information literacy skills.
Selected Tutorials
Below is a selection of some of the tutorials I've made with Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, and Articulate Storyline.
TechSmith Camtasia
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Articulate Storyline
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Other Digital Learning Objects
First Year Writing Library Research Skills Website I worked extensively with our First Year Writing Program faculty and instructors to ensure the library was meeting the needs of the large numbers of students enrolled in first year English classes. We've worked together on several projects including an online tutorial and, subsequently, a website (now overseen by one of my colleagues) where students are introduced to research strategies for the work they are actively doing in their classes. Instructors assign students different posts on the site and then ask them to contribute to an ongoing discussion in the campus course management system. 
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Preventing Plagiarism Tutorial & Digital Badge My colleagues and I have developed an information literacy program in the Canvas learning management system that incorporates digital badging. It includes several tutorials, one of which I created to teach students strategies for ethically engaging with outside sources in their writing and preventing plagiarism. View the learning objectives we've developed for this program, which are aligned with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. 
Library DIY Tool / LibAnswers FAQ Inspired by the DIY tool created at Portland State University, a colleague and I decided to work together to develop something similar for Fresno State. We created a site where students could go to get their own answers to some of the most common questions about research and using the library. Although we had the advantage of PSU's source code to work with, it still required a great deal of collaboration with our web developer to make it work for our library, and to develop additional content relevant to our students' needs. In 2021, the content from this site was migrated to a new FAQ platform, LibAnswers, which I keep up to date. You can see the current iteration here. |
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HML-IQ Library Orientation Game Embedded in Blackboard In 2011, I worked with my fellow librarians, staff and student assistants to develop an online library orientation game, HML-IQ, which introduced students to the library and its services. Among other things, I was responsible for designing the promotional material (signs, flyers, online images). An example of one of the signs I created for this project can be seen on the right. |
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