Category Archives: info lit

The Awesomeness of Archives and Mashups

zomg. You have to click through and look at these pictures. Please come back, though. I’ll wait.
Okay, did you see them? Weren’t they awesome?!
Seeing these pictures made me think about mashups again. I often talk about mashups in my lib100 classes. They’re a good tool for helping people think about how technology changes things [...]

Notes on Plagiarism Tutorials

I’m about to get started on a new tutorial project, and wanted to get a lay of the land.  This one will be a lot different from the Toolkit, since the topic is plagiarism and can’t be covered in 2-3 minutes. And what better way to do that then to ask your Twitter friends what [...]

Worksheets for LIB100

I teach a one-credit information literacy course as part of my job. Many semesters, I’ve had mostly juniors and seniors, so I’ve adjusted my curriculum to be less about how to use our specific library and more about how to think about the information environment and how to change to be ready for whatever’s coming [...]

Teaching Librarians About Teaching

Today was the final day of the semester long teaching class I’ve been working on. Together, with Roz Tedford, we’ve held what boils down to a one credit course (without the credit) for any library staff member at Wake Forest University who is interested in instruction. We had great attendance. 22 people attended at one [...]

Teaching Teaching

I’m working on a fun project at work this semester: teaching weekly classes on teaching for librarians with one of my colleagues. I’m super excited. It’s great to work with librarians from across campus, to raise the visibility of instructional design issues, to work with librarians to build confidence in their teaching, to make our [...]