Now that Top Tech Trends has happened, I can post about my trend. But before I get to that, I just want to say that I was especially honored to be part of a panel that included Amanda Etches-Johnson, Jason Griffey, David Walker, and Joe Murphy. It was a great group and I really enjoyed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Monday and Tuesday I participated in the NCLA Library Instruction 2.0 Conference. I participated on a panel on instruction 2.0 strategies, and in a workshop on using Google Docs/products for teaching. Between that, and having a class (oh, the irony!) that I had to teach back at Wake, I didn’t have much time to [...]
