In-class Instruction, Presentations, Research Assignment Consultations, and more.
The library offers synchronous and asynchronous instruction options, in-class instruction sessions, research consultations, and more. Library instruction for first-year students may be focused on:
I am also available for consultation in designing and creating effective and high-impact research assignments and content. As our tutorials and workshops cover basic information literacy instruction, these requests are for collaborating to design research assignments or activities tailored to your course or program for deeper and active learning.
Some content and activities I have designed include:
Library Mythbusters, Hashtag Keyword Brainstorm, Create a Search Strategy, Evaluate a source in 10 minutes, Digital Library Scavenger Hunt, Mini video lectures (5-8 minutes), Google Suite Workshop, Zine Workshop, and more. Browse example projects below.
Email gbarnes@mail.frenostate.edu to request in-class instruction, workshops, presentations, or research assignment consultations.
Rather than treating personal and scholarly inquiry as separate, this 4-part module series is informed by research that finds students’ personal experiences and connections inform much of their scholarly curiosity. Intended for use with first-year students, we hope to spark continued discussions on how to encourage students to articulate their interests and practice reflective inquiry. Want to include the modules in your course? Email Ginny Barnes, First Year Student Success Librarian at gbarnes@mail.fresnostate.edu
The four modules include:
Module 1: Cultivating a Beginner's Mind
Module 2: What it Means to Be a Content Creator
Module 3: Joining our Scholarly Community
Module 4: Preserving Our Cultural Record
Presentation slide deck within the FYE GSuite Workshop that address the integration of digital tools in learning, life, and wellness. Topics and resources shared included self-directed learning, information access, personal information management, organization, and setting digital boundaries.
Students' Google Site Projects created in the FYE GSUITE 2022 Workshop, a three-hour workshop intended to familiarize students with Google Suite apps, collaborative cloud computing, and self-directed and peer learning.
Excerpt from Dogs for Democracy, a collaborative zine created in September 2019 for National Voter Registration Day. Students and the campus community created art responding to the prompt: why does voting matter. Read the full zine on ScholarWorks.
Excerpt from Dogs for Democracy, a collaborative zine created in September 2019 for National Voter Registration Day. Students and the campus community created art responding to the prompt: why does voting matter. Read the full zine on ScholarWorks.
Slide deck from a Digital Mindfullness Workshop hosted for Off-Campus Student Life. The presentation included exercises and resources to reframe our relationship with the Internet and social media culture.
In this information literacy activity, students practiced free association 'tagging' to practice generating keywords for database searches. In creating tags, students also discovered various ways to narrow, broaden, or explore a topic as different students created different hashtags for the image, reflecting their different perspectives and associations with the subject matter.
This activity supported students understanding of information evaluation by situating it in real-world professional context. After reviewing ethics codes from two professional associations (journalism and libraries) each student created one of their own personal information policies.