So today I was planning to give a presentation on Teaching Teaching, a project that was one of my larger contributions to MPOW over the past year. (post about it from the beginning and midpoint) I was really excited about this, in large part because it was for an educator’s conference, and one that I’ve [...]
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 got in from ALA on Tuesday, and pretty much have planned classes and taught nonstop since then. In lieu of a really good series of Day In The Life posts, I’m summarizing here:
Wednesday:
I forgot about Midwinter when I agreed to work the reference shift that evening. I also forgot about the evening shift when [...]
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 [...]
