Holly Tomren and Virginia Allison will be presenting at the upcoming ALA W2011 panel session in New Orleans, “Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: Introducing a new interdisciplinary information literacy standard for 21st century learners.”
Program information as follows:
Visual literacy experts and practitioners will introduce a working draft of the new Visual Literacy Competency Standards, and discuss implementation strategies for higher education.
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Track: User Services
Subtrack: Literacy & Learning
*Travel funding for this event was made possible by receipt of funds from the University of California Research Grants for Librarians Program.
Sponsor: Image Resources Interest Group
Co-sponsors (name-only): Arts Section, Women and Gender Studies Section, Instruction Section
Speakers:
Virginia Allison and Holly Tomren, University of California, Irvine
Jodi Kearns and Lizette Royer, University of Akron
Emily Nelson Decker, University of Georgia
Robin Miller, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Shilpa Rele and Gilda Santana, University of Miami
Joanna Burgess, Reed College (moderator)
Speakers will be describing their experiences testing implementation of the draft Standards, and will provide ideas for activities, learning objects, and assessment related to the draft ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
ACRL/IRIG ALA Program planning committee: Joanna Burgess (co-chair), Ann Medaille, Kaila Bussert, Denise Hattwig (co-chair)
We hope you will join us!