In 2018 the University of Central Florida Instruction Librarians developed a new series of webinars to help students develop the information literacy skills they need to succeed but may not be explicitly taught in the classroom. Known as Research Tips Tuesdays once a month a 40-minute webinar was hosted. This resulted in LOTS of interest…and little follow through. How could we offer this content in a way that met our students’ where they are AND the bandwidth they have to devote to informal learning?
Fall of 2020 brought new approaches to library instruction across the board, and especially to the Research Tips Tuesday series. First, we moved the content to a new day, thus becoming the Research Tips Thursday series. Then, instead of monthly webinars, skills were broken down into digestible videos of 2 minutes or less that could be shared across a variety of platforms and incorporated into course content through learning management systems. This session will explore: Breaking down information literacy concepts into concrete skills Developing a holistic program over 15 weeks of videos Best practices for creating and distributing short instruction videos
