Archive for 'Teaching'
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.
Comments: 4
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.
Comments: 4
Faculty Blog Round-Up: PowerPoint
Among academic bloggers, yet another battle is raging in the PowerPoint wars.
Margaret Soltan, English professor and the venerable curmudgeon of University Diaries, links to a student’s blog to show how PowerPoint enables and encourages shoddy teaching.
Fellow English professor Alan Jacobs agrees, pointing to students’ sense of entitlement that results from PowerPoint.
Jonathan Rees, professor of history, [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on November 15th, 2009 under Faculty, Teaching, Technology Issues.
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Encouraging Engagement
Right now we’re in the midst of our busiest time in the semester for instruction at my library. I coordinate our information literacy program so instruction is always a big part of my job, but it looms even larger for me at this time of year. If I’m not teaching a class, I’m probably thinking [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on November 14th, 2009 under Faculty, Information Literacy, Student Issues, Teaching.
Comments: 6