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IL for All: Using Pinterest and other social media to expand learners’ understanding of information literacy for active engagement in creative assignments ILAGO Information Literacy Summit 2014 | Linn ‐ Benton Community College, Albany, OR Michele Burke Librarian, Chemeketa Community College Dalicia Fennell, Alexandra Hesbrook, and Sara Jameson Writing Instructors, Oregon State University

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Social media meets info lit outcomes in many courses • So everyone can be more effective at finding information they need – Using varied search tools – Using effective key words and search terms – Evaluating finds for usefulness – Saving ‐ storing finds for later use – Expanding and translating IL skills between classes, jobs, life – Teaching concepts of online privacy

Social media supports learning in a wide range of courses • Business Writing • First Year Composition • Poetry • Argumentation • Anthropology • Nursing • Literature

Advantages of using social media • Already in use in daily life for some people – means a life long learning skill • May avoid library anxiety • Expands critical thinking for evaluation since not pre ‐ vetted as library materials are • Expands citation skills since not so obvious how to cite • Provides search ‐ storage ‐ sharing

Challenges of using social media in a class • Providing digital access for students without internet or computers • Creating an account for each software if one doesn’t already have it • Or combining established accounts with classroom activities • Learning how to search and save on each site – Instructor needs to know as much as students – Investment in time and energy • Creating student ‐ private ‐ community sites • Helping students protect their privacy – one of the IL Proficiencies

How do people use social media sites? Students learn social media skills for business and WordPress blogs • to share their research • Composition students use Reddit to research their argument papers Food writing students share recipes, restaurant reviews, and • farmer’s market finds on a class Facebook page. • Critical Reviewing students online will use Pinterest to share art exhibit reviews Poetry students use Twitter to create and send short poems • • Students in an African American literature class use Tumblr to share images related to the texts and concepts they are studying One grad student archives recipes on Pinterest so she can check her • phone to make dinner • Argumentation uses Pinterest for the study of audience and visual rhetoric.

OSU librarians use Social Media sites to share archives of Oregon’s brewing history

We shared a “secret” Pinterest board to archive results for this presentation Though for some reason, sharing the secret board didn’t work and we made it public

Some of our saved resources include:

Despite a Pinterest reputation for being “girly” and focusing on wedding dresses Pinterest has useful materials for Research and Business Writing

Stereotypes; invitation only? http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/21/gentlemint ‐ its ‐ pinterest ‐ but ‐ without ‐ the ‐ girly ‐ stuff/

Demographics? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/reddit ‐ demographics ‐ in ‐ one ‐ chart/277513/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/social ‐ media ‐ by ‐ gender ‐ women ‐ pinterest ‐ men ‐ reddit ‐ infographic_n_1613812.html

Pinterest and Audience • Because Pinterest is assumed to be a mostly female social media site, it is a great place to talk about audience. • What makes a pin more effective? • How do we cater an image to a certain group? • What language can we use to attract this audience? • Are there things in the website’s design that indicate this audience?

Pins and Appeals Look at most popular items on Pinterest and analyze them using Aristotle’s appeals. In this case: How does Grumpy Cat use logos, ethos and pathos?

Researching on Reddit: More text than images; More interactive?

Using facebook for research

Using facebook for course pages to communicate and share content

Social Media for Business Writing A free resource available through Classtools.net

Social Media for Business Writing

Student Fakebook Postings

Using tumblr to research and share content, rhetorical situation Black Poetry Mixtape Tracks Assignment for ENG 259 at Lane CC http://afrofuturizations.tumblr.com/

Pinterest as Pedagogical Archive

Pinterest as Pedagogical Archive

Web Content facilitates sharing and archiving by offering easy options beyond email and print

Beyond writing and lit classes – Social Media for Teaching IL across Disciplines

Research is active

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