Keep Teaching: Virtual Library Instruction Resources

The following resources provide guidance for how you can create an active classroom online:

• Active Learning while Physically Distancing (Louisiana State University)
  • This highly recommended document identifies multiple activities commonly used in face-to-face classrooms, and provides examples of how the activity could work in a online classroom. 
• Active Learning for Online Teaching (Texas A&M University)
• Active Learning for Your Online Classroom: Five Strategies (Columbia University)'
• Learning Activities and Active Learning Online (UC Davis)
• Maintaining Student Engagement in Online Courses (Indiana University)

If you are planning interactive instruction session or workshop, some other tools that you could use include:

• Mentimeter- Free Virtual Polling Tool

1. Make a presentation in Mentimeter
2. Choose a video conferencing platform of your choice. Share your screen and the presentation code so students can connect
3. Start presenting and interacting with your students

• Padlet - Free virtual peg board for sharing thoughts, documents, images and more.
  1. Style-Choose a premade template or go bold with a blank slate
  2. Invite- Invite collaborators to add content, comment, like and make edits in real-time
  3. Post- Add photos, documents, web links, video, and music to make the text come alive.
• Top Hat- Free Polling tool that can also take attendance through CarmenCanvas
  1. Make your polls in Top Hat
  2. Choose a video conferencing platform of your choice. Share your screen and the presentation code so students can connect
  3. Start presenting and interacting with your students

• CORA : Community of Online Research Assignments: an open access resource for faculty and librarians
• Framework Sandbox: ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox: A platform and repository for sharing Framework materials
• OSUL Teaching and Learning Blog
• Active Learning while Physical Distancing: Taking common in person active learning methods and shifting them for online or hybrid classrooms

If you are looking for material to include in a session or course, another option is Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research.  The Choosing and Using Sources: Instructor Resources site provides multiple examples of activities related to each chapter of the book, many of which could be adapted for use in an online environment.