Slides for LOEX 2013 Conference

1. Student-Generated Comics as
Information Literacy Narratives
Telling Stories
About the Library
Matt Upson
Assistant Professor
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Emporia State University
mupson@emporia.edu
@thunderbrarian
Alex Mudd
Assistant Professor
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Emporia State University
amudd@emporia.edu
@alexlibrismudd

4. Rationale
• UL100 Information Literacy and Technology
• 2 credit hours
• Focus on the Research Process
• Online Portfolio
• Reflective Component

5. Rationale
• Information Literacy Narratives*
• Student need to be heard
• A way to reflect and summarize
• Critical thinking and questioning assumptions
• Framing themselves as characters
• The drama and conflict of research
• An attempt to validate student experience
• Opportunities for more authentic assessment
• Potential overall improvement of student
learning
*Adapted from Detmering R., and Johnson A.M. “‘Research Papers have Always Seemed Very Daunting’: Information Literacy Narratives and
the Student Research Experience.” Portal 12.1 (2012): 5–22

6. Rationale
• Complementing with a Comic
• Visual Literacy
• The Flipped Classroom
• Participatory Technologies

7. The Assignment
• Goals
• Equipment
• Prep
• Implementation
• Script Component
• Comic Component

8. Script Sample
PAGE ONE – A focus on topic development and overall reflection.
Panel One: This panel shows a picture of Matt Upson talking at the front of the room
about the research project. “blah ,blah, blah…Research…blah, blah, blah” Tina is also in
the picture but to the side, sitting at computer listening to Matt.
Tina: Oh no, not ANOTHER research project…
Panel Two: A picture of me looking at a diesel book, but looking skeptical and confused.
Tina(voiceover): I had chosen the topic of diesel technology, but as I began my
research I started to realize how difficult that topic was actually going to be. Not only
would it be difficult because I couldn’t find much information about it, but also
because I don’t really know a lot about it.

30. • Assessment
• ACRL Standards
• Standard One: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
• Standard Two: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
• Standard Three: 3.3., 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
• Standard Four: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
• Changes?
• Moving Forward – One shot sessions