Karasic, Vickie

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Managing Librarian for the Weigle Information Commons | French and Francophone Studies Librarian, Penn Libraries
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Vickie Karasic is a librarian who focuses on educational technology, digital literacy, and learning spaces. As part of the Teaching, Research, and Learning team at Penn Libraries, Vickie assists faculty, students, and other members of the Penn community in supporting their use of digital tools for instruction, personal research curation, and emerging technologies. She serves as liaison librarian and bibliographer to the French and Francophone Studies Department. Vickie's research interests include the use of digital media in language learning, the digital humanities, flipped classroom and active learning methods, and learning spaces in academic libraries, and has published works on such topics. Vickie holds her MLIS from Drexel University, MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and BA in Comparative Literature and French from Cornell University.
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  • Publication
    The Great Journey Through Europe
    (2014-01-01) Karasic, Vickie Marre
    Suggested resources for the Penn Alumni Travel excursion through Europe. See the Library Guide for this bibliography here.
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    From Commons to Classroom: The Evolution of Learning Spaces in Academic Libraries
    (2016-11-01) Karasic, Vickie Marre
    Over the past two decades, academic library spaces have evolved to meet the changing teaching and learning needs of diverse campus communities. The Information Commons combines the physical and virtual in an informal library space, whereas the recent Active Learning Classroom creates a more formal setting for collaboration. As scholarship has become increasingly digital and interactive, commons and classroom environments in academic libraries promote experimentation with new technology and accommodate millennial learning behaviors. The library, a centrally located and academically neutral campus space, provides an ideal place for classrooms and encourages interdisciplinary scholarship unbounded by specific academic departments.
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    Video Creation Tools for Language Learning: Lessons Learned
    (2015-01-01) Karasic, Vickie Marre; Vedantham, Anu
    Video creation tools—from Skype to PowerPoint to iMovie—have become increasingly popular conduits for foreign language teaching and learning. In flipped-classroom and blended-learning models, video enables faculty to move routine language concepts (i.e., grammar and vocabulary) outside the classroom, leaving more in-class time for live engagement with teacher and classmates. This chapter discusses lessons learned and new data collected at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Weigle Information Commons on video’s effectiveness in various language learning contexts. Data collected includes reflections on several years of course observations, interviews with language faculty members, and a campus-wide survey to gauge student perspectives on video’s role in the language learning experience. Themes that have emerged include the range of video tools available to perform a given task, perceptions of tool usefulness and ease of use (depending on faculty and student technology comfort levels), and the role of the library as a central resource for technology support and course integration. Our study contributes to the scholarly conversation by providing a taxonomy of current tools used, their efficacy in our context as a measure for other contexts, and skills recommended by faculty and staff for effective incorporation of video tools in the language classroom.