Conference Proceeding: Colloque de Lille
Published conference proceeding.
“Comment l’internaute devient historien: une pedagogie hybride pour croiser l’analyse documentaire et la creation de ressources numerique au sein d’un course d’histoire.” From Internet User to Historian: A Hybrid Pedagogy to Blend Object Analysis and Digitization in the Heart of a History Course.
Co-author: David Del Testa, Bucknell University. In Les Actes du Colloque de Lille (Octobre 2008). Lyon: Presses de l’ENNSIB, 2010.
World War II Poster Project
In an effort to find creative ways to incorporate information literacy skills into an undergraduate course, David Del Testa and Abby Clobridge created the World War II Poster Project which led to two distinct pedagogical models which can be adapted by other institutions.
The project won the 2009 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award.
Trinity University Information Literacy Workshop
Object-Based Projects to Teach Information Literacy Skills
Co-author/presenter: David Del Testa, Assistant Professor of History, Bucknell University.
Presentation for Trinity University faculty. Presentation highlighted three object-based projects to teach undergraduate students information literacy skills. Projects included: the World War II Poster Project, Biography of an Object, and Historical Mills. The full presentation can be viewed here.
Book Chapter
The World War II Poster Project: Building a Digital Library through Information Literacy Partnerships
Chapter from Using Technology to Teach Information Literacy, ed. by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2008.
Co-author: David Del Testa (Bucknell University).
Summary: This chapter explores two ways in which technology was used to teach and assess undergraduate students’ information literacy skills in a single course: by building a digital collection of images and through the use of personal response systems to assess students’ ability to find, evaluate, and ethically use information.
EDUCAUSE 2008 Presentation
“Now, All Together!” — The World War II Poster Project: Faculty-Library-IT Collaboration for Information Literacy. EDUCAUSE 2008 Presentation. Invited speaker. Orlando, FL. Co-author: David Del Testa, Bucknell University.
