Archive for 'Libraries and Learning'
Practice, Practice, Practice
The semester is drawing to a close at my college and students in the information literacy course that I’m teaching are deep into their work on their final projects. I’m taking a breath before the grading begins and already starting to reflect on the semester: what worked well, what didn’t, what I’ll tweak over the [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on May 10th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues.
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Designing A Library For Learning
We would all agree that learning takes place in an academic library – and other library buildings too. When members of the user community are at our libraries using a computer to find information it can result in learning. When student groups prepare for an assignment in a library study room it can facilitate learning. [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 13th, 2010 under Books, Libraries and Learning.
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Keeping Up With Learning Technologists
On Thursday May 21, 2009 John Shank and I had the pleasure of co-hosting an important webcast event held by the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community. Josh Kim and Barbara Knauff, Senior Learning Technologists at Dartmouth College co-presented a webcast titled “Becoming an Educational Change Agent”. The presentation was based on an article Kim and [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 10th, 2010 under Libraries and Learning, Technology Issues.
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Staying the Course
Classes started at my college last Thursday, officially bringing the winter intersession to an end. While the library was fairly quiet in January, I kept myself busy with a couple of big projects, including getting ready to teach our library’s first credit-bearing course this semester.
It’s been exciting (and, I admit it, a little scary) prepping [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on February 1st, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Teaching.
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What Can We Learn from “Lessons Learned”?
It has taken me way too long to get around to reading Project Information Literacy’s progress report, “Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in a Digital Age.” Some of the key findings from their survey of over 2,000 students:
–They spend a lot of time getting a grasp of context: the big picture, the [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 10th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Worth Reading.
Comments: 4