Welcome back to another edition of “Faculty and Librarians Team-up for Student Success” series. In this episode we bring you Kinesiology lecturers Jennifer Fay and Tannah Broman and Health Sciences Librarian Sheila Hofstetter.  Learn from this lively discussion of how faculty sought to improve their students’ ability to quickly find the best research; a critical skill they knew would be vital to their success as students in Kinesiology 200, upper level courses, and future healthcare professionals.  The team discusses their collaboration teaching students proper research methods, using the library system and finding available resources.  They talk about the challenges they faced in moving students away from simple Google searches to progressing analyzing and synthesizing information, and Sheila illustrates methods dealing with information literacy and access issues.

This episode is a part of the ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success series looking at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and provide the skills they need to succeed.

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Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Jennifer Fay
Sheila Hofstetter
Tannah Broman

Episode 87
Running Time: 27:51

Our series, “Faculty and Librarians Team-up for Student Success,” returns! In this installment we are joined by Dr. Ken Mossman, Professor of Health Physics in the ASU School of Life Sciences, and Katherine O’Clair, Life Sciences Librarian, ASU Libraries. They are here to tell us about collaborating to help students succeed in Bio 302: Cancer & Heart Disease.

Ken’s interest are in radiological, health and safety with a particular concern in public health and protection from radiation exposures in nuclear power plants and medical X-rays. Not only is Ken a faculty member here at ASU, he is also a Federal Administrative Judge with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

We will learn about the Bio 302 class, how Katherine and Ken started working together, strategies for connecting with students, the differences they have already seen in the students, and much more.

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This episode is a part of the ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success series looking at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and provide the skills they need to succeed.

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Katherine O’Clair
Ken Mossman

Episode 82

Running Time: 26:00

We start off 2008 with a new edition to our series Faculty and Librarians Team-up for Student Success. We are joined by Librarian Leslee Shell from the Fletcher Library on the ASU West campus and Ken Sweat from the Integrated Natural Sciences Department at the West campus to discuss new teaching methods for students of biology. Ken and Leslee joined forces to get students past the heady language associated with scientific literature and tap into the vast resources available to them. There is a lot of language students may not recognize and far more resources today then there were just a few years ago. Leslee was also looking at bringing library instruction directly to the students and their curriculum.	Leslee Shell and Ken Sweat
	They work with concepts students can relate to and utilize material built around an innovative program linking cell biology, genetics and ecology via a focal organism, the desert tree lizard, as a model organism integrated into a core curriculum.
Leslee and Ken work to engage students in the learning process, encourage them to ask questions and begin seeking information on their own.

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This episode is a part of the ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success series looking at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and provide the skills they need to succeed.

Host: Fred McIlvainGuests: Leslee Shell Ken Sweat

Leslee, Fred, and Ken

Episode 64
Running Time: 10:37

We continue our series Faculty and Librarians Team-up for Student Success with History and Political Science Bibliographer Ed Oetting and Associate Professor of History Dr. Andrew Barnes. Andrew and Ed collaborate on an online history methodology course which includes an embedded library component. The goal of the library component is to teach students how to do valid historical research online via web based library resources. They faced the challenge of creating effective tutorials and assignments for students around the world that may never set foot in the library.

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This episode is a part of the ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success series looking at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and provide the skills they need to succeed.

Host:

Fred McIlvain

Guests:

Andrew Barnes

Ed Oetting

Episode 60

Join Jonna Anderson, Clinical Assistant Professor from the College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation, and Danielle Carlock, librarian as they discuss the partnership they have formed to prepare students to be evidence based practitioners.

This episode is a part of the ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success series looking at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and provide the skills they need to succeed.

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For further information, or if you are interested in contributing content for this series, contact Julie Tharp at jtharp@asu.edu or 480-965-5168.

Episode 56
Running Time: 10:29

Join ASU Tempe campus’s Dr. Kelly Nelson from the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, and Julie Tharp, Instruction Librarian, for a conversation about how they teamed-up to help students in Kelly’s BIS 301 course successfully complete their core assignment to find academic journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines.

Julie Tharp and Kelly Nelson

This episode is a part of the ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success series looking at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and provide the skills they need to succeed.

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For further information, or if you are interested in contributing content for this series, contact Julie Tharp at jtharp@asu.edu or 480-965-5168.

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Kelly Nelson
Julie Tharp

Episode 50
Running Time: 16:39

Instruction Librarian Julie Tharp and Health Sciences Librarian Sheila Hofstetter introduce us to a new monthly series that shares the experiences of faculty and librarians who are teaming up across disciplines and campuses to provide students with the tools and research competencies they need to succeed. Julie and Sheila will give us an overview of what to expect from the series and explain the concept of Information Literacy.

Julie Tharp and Sheila Hofstetter

Librarians and faculty support the same mission and share similar professional obligations; namely to help students succeed academically. Both want students to be skilled researchers, use the most robust resources available, and ultimately, produce high quality papers. Each brings a different set of knowledge and perspectives on how to make this happen. These innovative collaborations have broken traditional roles to meet the changing nature of learning and access to information.

ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success looks at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and gain the skills they need.

Five topics will be address within each episode:

• What motivations created these collaborations?
• What goals and outcomes are they expecting?
• What new activities or approaches have they tried?
• What differences did it make?
• What are their next steps?

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For further information, or if you are interested in contributing content for this series, contact Julie Tharp at jtharp@asu.edu or 480-965-5168.

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Episode 49