ALI Episode 3 June 2009: Dana Longley, copyright curriculum, Faculty Learning Communities

Play the episode (mp3, 1 hour 3 minutes)

In this episode we're joined by guest Dana Longley, distance librarian at Empire State College SUNY.

Links to some of the stuff we talked about:

Dana's online workshops and Slideshare space with presentations on their instruction programEFF launches "Teaching Copyright" curriculum (press release)
The RIAA's "Campus Downloading" site
An article about the GSU copyright lawsuit

Interview with Caroline Barratt, UGA Reference/Instruction Librarian about her involvement with Faculty Learning Communities (46:05-1:02:25; approx. 16 minutes)

Links:

• Barratt, Caroline Cason, Nadine Cohen, Diane Trap & Deb Raftus. (2008). Finding Meaningful Research Assignments: Collaboration as a Way to End the ‘Scavenger Hunt.’ LOEX Quarterly, 34(4).
  
• Website for Developing Faculty and Professional Learning Communities (FLCs) to Transform Campus Culture for Learning via Miton D. Cox's, Miami University (Ohio)
  
• University of Georgia's Faculty Learning Community website via Center for Teaching & Learning
• Additional information specific to the Academic Upcycling FLC at UGA.
• Textbook used in the Academic Upcycling FLC: Karukstis, K. K., & Elgren, T. E. (2007). Developing and sustaining a research-supportive curriculum: A compendium of successful practices. Washington, DC: Council on Undergraduate Research.

Note: Caroline wishes to thank her co-facilitator Nadine Cohen and her colleagues in their 2007-2008 FLC, as well as Deb Raftus for the excellent title. Thanks also to the Center for Teaching and Learning for their support of faculty learning communities at UGA.

And something we forgot to mention:
ALI Zotero group: If you're using Zotero 2.0, feel free to join the group. We'll share references to stuff we talk about on the show, and all members should feel free to share other interesting instruction-related articles.