Joelle Pitts's guest appearances

Joelle Pitts

Leading Lines

Preparing Foster Youth for Adulting

Ben Shapiro

Dan Levy

Kelly Hogan

Adam Miller

James Lang

Holly Tucker

Brian Dear

John Katzman

Chris Parrish

Bryan Alexander

Patrick Rael

Matt Upson

Jack Madden

Joshua Eyler

Betsy Barre

OwlTail

In this episode, we take a look at the work of the New Literacies Alliance. The NLA is a cross-institutional collaboration among librarians to create open educational resources intended to teach information literacy. They have created online lessons for introducing students to search strategies, scholarly conversations, the role of authority in research, citations, reading scientific research, and more.Leading Lines producer Melissa Mallon caught up with two of the leaders of the New Literacies Alliance at a recent conference. Melissa spoke with Joelle Pitts, instructional design librarian at Kansas State University, and Matthew Upson, director of undergraduate instruction and outreach services at the Oklahoma State University libraries. They talk about the origin of the New Literacies Alliance, the challenges teaching students information literacy, and what’s next for the NLA and the lessons they’re developing.Links•	New Literacies Alliance, https://newliteraciesalliance.org/•	NLA available lessons, https://newliteraciesalliance.org/available-lessons/ •	Joelle Pitts on Twitter, @jopitts, https://twitter.com/jopitts•	Matt Upson on Twitter, @thunderbrarian, https://twitter.com/thunderbrarian •	Matt Upson’s faculty page, http://info.library.okstate.edu/matt-upson

In this episode, we take a look at the work of the New Literacies Alliance. The NLA is a cross-institutional collaboration among librarians to create open educational resources intended to teach information literacy. They have created online lessons for introducing students to search strategies, scholarly conversations, the role of authority in research, citations, reading scientific research, and more. Leading Lines producer Melissa Mallon caught up with two of the leaders of the New Literacies Alliance at a recent conference. Melissa spoke with Joelle Pitts, instructional design librarian at Kansas State University, and Matthew Upson, director of undergraduate instruction and outreach services at the Oklahoma State University libraries. They talk about the origin of the New Literacies Alliance, the challenges teaching students information literacy, and what’s next for the NLA and the lessons they’re developing. Links •	New Literacies Alliance, <a href="https://newliteraciesalliance.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newliteraciesalliance.org/</a> •	NLA available lessons, <a href="https://newliteraciesalliance.org/available-lessons/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newliteraciesalliance.org/available-lessons/</a> •	Joelle Pitts on Twitter, @jopitts, <a href="https://twitter.com/jopitts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jopitts</a> •	Matt Upson on Twitter, @thunderbrarian, <a href="https://twitter.com/thunderbrarian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/thunderbrarian</a> •	Matt Upson’s faculty page, <a href="http://info.library.okstate.edu/matt-upson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://info.library.okstate.edu/matt-upson</a>

Episode 050 - Joelle Pitts - Matt Upson