zines

Submitted by Kelleen Maluski on January 20th, 2023
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The sixth in a series of 6 courses, students focus on the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Plan involving prescription medications, patient history, and more complex patient cases. The librarian has already met with these students in other courses so this is and scaffolded approach with this being their last session with the librarian. The purpose of the librarian session is to make sure they feel comfortable doing advanced research on drug information pertaining to specific topics that will be communicated to patients. In a previous session the librarian covered disparities and discrimination in both search engines and scholarly databases so this is to reinforce those lessons. The session starts with a brief Kahoot quiz (with prizes for winners) and discussion of any sticking points that become clear through this quiz. This is to allow students to teach and learn from each other and to assess their needs as opposed to assuming what they might be needing reinforcement on. Then the students break out into groups to create a patient education zine on smoking cessation for members of the LGBTQ2S+ communities. The zine has to have at least 2 background sources, 1 scholarly article, and 1 drug information portal source. All sources have to be cited in correct APA format. There also has to be at least one page where the group communicates to the patients how they found this information (in otherwords their search strategy). At the end of the class there is about 20 minutes set aside for the groups to present on their zines, what information they included, and why. The librarian makes copies of the zines for all members of the class afterwards, thus helping to build intrinsic motivation for sharing with their cohorts. The librarian for this course pre-makes the zine booklets and brings all supplies for making zines (such as markers, glue sticks, scissors, paper, magazines to cut up, etc.)

Learning Outcomes: 

Reinforce concepts reviewed in previous classes while allowing students to teach each other and come away with a learning object they have built.

Discipline: 
Health

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

This is the 3rd in a series of scaffolded classes for pharmacy students

Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 

Will need to provide supplies and that obviously requires a budget. Also need knowledge on how to make zines. 

Suggested Citation: 
Maluski, Kelleen. "Reinforcement of Cultural Humility in Searching and Patient Communications." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2023. https://projectcora.org/assignment/reinforcement-cultural-humility-searching-and-patient-communications.
Submitted by Aisha Conner-Gaten on January 22nd, 2020
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This workshop introduces zines to a First Year Women's and Gender Studies class including what they are, general history and culture in the United States, and the process of making zines. This workshop supported a class assignment where students make zines featuring class readings and a reflective essay including original creative works. In the sessions, students recieve "handout" zines for note-taking and reflective work, a short lecture on zines, and work with databases to find pieces for their zine topics or ideas. The instructor can find example zines for the interactive exercise on Internet Archive and other collections.

Learning Outcomes: 
  • Students will know the basics of zines as cultural and reflective documents in order to determine social value
  • Students will analyze zines for cultural and social impact and themes in order to recreate zines with their topics
  • Students will employ database searches in order to find and evaluate pieces for zine assignment
Discipline: 
Women's Studies

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

The course assignment for this workshop focused on the creation of the zine specifically incorporating previous course readings, essays, creative works, and organizational research. In support of this, the library workshop on zines introduced to idea of zines, showed examples with partner question work, and research time to explore subject databases for relevant articles and images.

Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.): 
Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 

Time! Consider shortening zine handout to provide more time to create or work on individual zines. Perhaps even make a blank version with minimal illustration.

Suggested Citation: 
Conner-Gaten, Aisha. "Zine Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/zine-workshop.
Submitted by Lua Gregory on August 8th, 2017
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Short Description: 

This small group zine-making activity can be adapted for any discipline.

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Learning Outcomes: 

1. To create, distribute, and use information as a means to effect change
2. Use positions of information privilege in order to make information more equitably accessible and/or available

Discipline: 
Multidisciplinary

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Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.): 

Zine making materials: Markers, pens, pencils, scissors, tape, glue, stapler, magazines, and paper. Access to copy machine.

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Suggested Citation: 
Gregory, Lua. "Zines for the People." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2017. https://projectcora.org/assignment/zines-people.