This post1 isn’t so much for all you instruction librarians out there, since you all probably know what I’m going to say already. It’s more for any teaching faculty who might be out there (anyone? anyone? Bueller?) and anyone else who’s curious. So most of my teaching for this semester is done: I have three […]
January 8, 2010 – 1:10 pm
Inspired by Steve Lawson’s post, which was in turn inspired by John Scalzi’s post: When I was in elementary school, I read a book called There’s a Rainbow In My Closet that made me want to paint, and paint, and paint. I checked it out of the library a bazillion times, and read it many […]
December 18, 2009 – 9:49 am
One of the things you do at Immersion is prepare and present a 5-minute teaching segment; this is where you work on all the “public speaking” aspects of teaching: vocal projection, filler words, hand gestures, etc. My 5-minute segment was a quick set piece about how the “Find Text” (OpenURL resolver) links in our databases […]
December 15, 2009 – 9:03 am
Things have been pretty quiet around here lately: actual in-class instruction has been done for several weeks now, but we’ve got a lot of projects cooking on various back burners. We’re going to be doing usability testing on the new library website in January, so we’re getting geared up for that, and I’m working on […]
November 25, 2009 – 9:22 am
A couple of weeks ago our campus hosted a guest speaker who gave a presentation on assessing critical thinking skills, especially in the context of general education. (This was part of an ongoing project on our campus to reform our general education curriculum and move more in the direction of assessment of learning outcomes.) The […]
November 12, 2009 – 6:46 pm
This is, in many ways, a post-Immersion success story. Earlier this week, I taught a one-shot session for an introductory class that had about 15 first-year students and 5 seniors. As soon as we got started, it became apparent that there was one student, evidently a senior, in the class who simply would not stop […]
October 15, 2009 – 8:08 pm
So the APA just recently published a new edition of their style manual, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. And hoo, boy: what a mess. Among other things, they’ve made substantial changes to the way writers are supposed to cite journal articles accessed online, especially via licensed subscription databases. This blog post is […]
September 25, 2009 – 12:28 pm
My husband, Chris Cobb, wrote to me recently: I was twigged to a most exciting (for a medievalist, that is) news story last evening that I wanted to pass along to you, just because. It was announced today that the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard ever discovered has recently been found in Staffordshire, England. It is several […]
September 23, 2009 – 2:53 pm
So the instruction season is in full swing (I have 5 sessions for three classes this week, and 4 sessions for two classes next week, yikes!) and I’m back from Immersion, so I’m sure you’re waiting with baited breath to find out how Immersion has transformed my information literacy instruction! Wait, you’re not? Oh. Well, […]
September 6, 2009 – 8:20 pm
There’s a really nasty worm out there that’s attacking WordPress blogs, so if you’ve got one, and you’re a lazy bum like me and haven’t upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4), please do so!
