Archive for 'Teaching'
Taxonomy of Collaboration
Back to school means back to library instruction, and while gearing up for the busy fall season I’ve found myself mulling over a few instruction issues. Outreach to faculty is something I think about often, especially outreach to those who either don’t know about or don’t seem interested in library instruction. Most of these faculty [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on August 29th, 2010 under Faculty, Information Literacy, Teaching.
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A Full Day of Information Literacy
Last week I went to the ACRL New England chapter’s Library Instruction Group (NELIG) annual program Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student. This was my first conference entirely devoted to library instruction, and it was great to have the opportunity to think and talk about information literacy all day.
The [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 12th, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Information Literacy, Teaching.
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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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Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Cooperation or Duplication
Here’s an interesting project from a few libraries out west that have decided to cooperatively build a library of video instructional tutorials. So far the tutorials cover the usual things, such as popular vs. scholarly journals, why you need to cite sources, and how to develop search terms. The Cooperative Library Instruction Project [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 29th, 2009 under Teaching, sudden thoughts.
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Going Through The Motions
Have you ever attended a presentation, sat through a class or lecture or possibly watched a music performance and afterwards felt that the speaker, instructor or performer simply sleepwalked through the whole thing? I’m sure all of us have at one time or another. It can be a real challenge to constantly motivate yourself to [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 8th, 2009 under Public Services, Teaching.
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