Blending Large Scale Syllabi Text Analysis with Qualitative Instructor Preferences Data to Help Inform Directions for Media Collections Development and Outreach

A primary challenge of effectively promoting the instructional use of library materials and determining investments in collection development is gaining a deep understanding of how these resources are used within disciplinary and course contexts. This presentation will describe an ongoing pilot project in UMN Library Media Services that blends the mining of large corpora of departmental syllabi (using NVIVO text analysis software) coupled with instructor survey and correspondence data sources to better understand contextualized media resource use (and integration of student media projects). Though this pilot has been limited to a few select media intensive disciplines, these reviews have already helped inform some directions for the Libraries\u27 instructional media collections (such as investments in streaming video), further development of media services, and collaborative efforts between the Media Outreach Librarian and subject specialists for potential instructor outreach

Viral Hangouts: The media literacy lifeline I didn’t realize I needed

This article describes my experience as an academic media librarian initially seeking guidance on best support practices for the virtual world from other media literacy educators at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. What I found through the Virtual Viral Hangouts community turned out to be so much more! In addition to sharing tips on media literacy education (my contribution emphasized commercial media resources and student created media projects in virtual contexts), I also developed dear friendships with participants from all walks of life. The one hour a day spent away from my daily work served as a lifeline, providing space for much needed self-care that sustained me during a very challenging time while expanding my knowledge of media literacy education practices

Libraries\u27 Support of Innovative Teaching, Learning and Public Engagement through Course Integrated Student Media Projects

Libraries are in a primary position to help instructors evolve their curriculum to include more innovative approaches to teaching and student learning. The student media project is one such approach that is increasingly leveraged not only to help facilitate the acquisition of subject knowledge and digital media technical skill sets, but also critical thinking skills. This is often achieved through a required public engagement component (e.g., creating a documentary style digital story that highlights local issues or organizations, interviewing community members on camera, etc.). As part of an ongoing research project to explore the benefits and limitations of over 350 different course integrated student media assignments at the University of Minnesota, this session will showcase a number of examples that illustrate these projects’ potential. This session will provide an overview on the range of library based information and media related services deployed for each project with suggestions on how participants might consider adapting their own individual and organizational contexts to provide greater support for these rich learning experiences

Can I Get That Video Delivered in Streaming Format?: Traversing the Obstacles of Educational Media

Transitioning from physical format to digital delivery of educational media collections creates a set of complex challenges that few libraries have mastered. This presentation will provide an introductory overview of streaming video, some of the common models utilized at various academic and public libraries, with discussion on recent initiatives in the University of Minnesota Libraries to expand this capacity through licensing content and promotion of exemplar open digital video collections. This presentation will also provide examples of some of the pedagogical benefits of integrating digital video into the classroom, such as the flipped classroom model

Perspectives on the Role of Instructional Video in Higher Education: Evolving Pedagogy, Copyright Challenges, and Support Models

Related to: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315637549-17The growth of online video has contributed to this format becoming an ever ubiquitous part of the way we communicate in our cultural and instructional contexts. Just as this digital environment provides amazing new possibilities for teaching and learning, copyright law presents some unique challenges to fully realizing this potential. This chapter briefly describes how changes to commercial instructional video formats and copyright law have intersected with educational use over time. To illustrate this evolution, this chapter highlights contemporary teaching and learning uses of commercial streaming video with related benefits, while articulating a diverse range of [primarily academic library based] campus media program approaches implemented to expand streaming video access in the face of a challenging commercial instructional video Copyright law and marketplace environment

Media Literacy for Libraries 101: What it is, the University of Minnesota Model, and the Criticality of Library Support

What is the difference between a digital story and vodcast? Why are libraries checking out camcorders and audio recorders? Why is this student asking me for help with iMovie? In this lecture, I will explain the concept and importance of media literacy, approaches to media literacy education, and argue that it is absolutely essential that public, k-12, and academic libraries provide intentional media literacy programming. To support this case, I will describe Minnesota\u27s media literacy support model, with example student media projects that illustrate the pedagogical benefits and soft skill set development of these emerging modes of student scholarship.To access the full presentation for this session, click on the \u27Download\u27 button to the right

When Text Isn’t Enough: An Exploration into the World of Multimodal Scholarship in the Digital Arts, Sciences and Humanities

Increasingly, scholars are producing works in non-traditional genres and mediums, published using alternative platforms. This presentation will describe some of the trends and unique affordances of multimodal scholarship across the digital arts, sciences and humanities domains. Examples discussed include results from a recent bibliometric study on science video abstracts; Humanities dissertations, monographs, and edited collections published, and sometimes collaboratively written, online; and digital art scholarship, such as the Words of Encouragement installation (Weisman Art Museum). Finally, we will discuss the potential implications of these emerging areas of scholarship on librarians and library services

Ecosystem Health Education: Teaching Leadership Through Team-Based Assignments

The health and sustainability of humans, animals, and environments are interdependent. The relationship between climate change, disease emergence, and food security on sustainability of ecosystem services is embodied in the sustainable development goals (SDGs). A diverse workforce needs to be equipped with leadership skills to function in a transdisciplinary, team-based environment. Ecosystem health (ESH) provides a critical and innovative approach to solving these complex challenges and offers a toolbox to actualize SDGs. This article outlines the development of a course detailing the process of framing a new academic approach in ESH as a training pathway for undergraduate and graduate students

Hyaluronan Synthase Elevation in Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma Cells Correlates with Hyaluronan Surface Retention, a Prerequisite for Rapid Adhesion to Bone Marrow Endothelial Cells

Bone marrow is the primary site of metastasis in patients with advanced stage prostate cancer. Prostate carcinoma cells metastasizing to bone must initially adhere to endothelial cells in the bone marrow sinusoids. In this report, we have modeled that interaction in vitro using two bone marrow endothelial cell (BMEC) lines and four prostate adenocarcinoma cell lines to investigate the adhesion mechanism. Highly metastatic PC3 and PC3M-LN4 cells were found to adhere rapidly and specifically (70-90%) to BMEC-1 and trHBMEC bone marrow endothelial cells, but not to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (15-25%). Specific adhesion to BMEC-1 and trHBMEC was dependent upon the presence of a hyaluronan (HA) pericellular matrix assembled on the prostate carcinoma cells. DU145 and LNCaP cells were only weakly adherent and retained no cell surface HA. Maximal BMEC adhesion and RA encapsulation were associated with high levels of HA synthesis by the prostate carcinoma cells. Up-regulation of HA synthase isoforms Has2 and Has3 relative to levels expressed by normal prostate corresponded to elevated HA synthesis and avid BMEC adhesion. These results support a model in which tumor cells with up-regulated HA synthase expression assemble a cell surface hyaluronan matrix that promotes adhesion to bone marrow endothelial cells. This interaction could contribute to preferential bone metastasis by prostate carcinoma cells