Category Archives: teaching

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 [...]

10 Reflective Steps for Improving Training

I was wrong! I forgot I was scheduled to post over on ALA Learning this week, so here’s one more link to content from elsewhere on the web. If you’re interested in what I’m talking about over there, here’s the abbreviated version:
….Before diving into those [summer] projects [like having a baby!], I like to take [...]

Lauren’s Top Tech Trend

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 [...]

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 [...]