Tag Archives: cil2009

What Instruction Librarians Could Teach The Rest Of Us About Conference Presentations

April 7, 2009 – 9:03 am

How many instruction librarians would actively choose the following scenario for maximizing learning in their classrooms? Instructor stands at the front of the room, behind a podium, reading from or frequently consulting notes, while students sit passively in chairs facing the instructor, taking notes (or not). The students don’t have computers of their own in […]

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Active Learning on Steroids: Unconferences and Information Literacy Instruction

April 2, 2009 – 9:12 am

So I went to a session at Computers in Libraries that I thought wasn’t going to have any relevance for my day-to-day work at all, but I wanted to hear the presenters speak because I’d heard good things about them through the Library Society of the World grapevine, and there wasn’t anything else compelling scheduled […]

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