Tag Archives: skills

things we wished we had learned in library school

A day after I sat on a panel on the issue at my alma mater, Stephen Abram posts a fantastic list!
I mostly spoke to the issues that resonated the most with my experience:

Experience matters.
Write papers in school that can be modified and published when you graduate.
You can participate, in all kinds of ways, in major [...]

Excellence in Online Teaching by Design

Excellence in Online Teaching by Design
Ingrid N. Thompson-Sellers

Shared quotes from Richard Leblanc, York University, on good teaching
Thompson-Sellers performed a small exploratory study of exemplary online teachers
What are the internal and external characteristics that define an exemplary online teacher?
Can they be acquired through training?
Study was interview-based
Emerging themes: design, development, utilization, management, evaluation, relationship and social structure
Design [...]

living vicariously through podcasts

Thanks to LITA for making some LITA Forum sessions available through mp3s. Today I listened to David Lee King’s Keynote.
It was a good talk, a lot like what I expected, and I suspect it would have been even more interesting if I had seen the accompanying slides. There are write ups, [...]