Sunday, September 20, 2009

ALI Episode 6, September 2009: fall classes and interview with Kim Duckett

Play the episode (mp3, 1 hour 5 minutes)


Part I (00:45-34:00; approx. 34 minutes)

We talk a bit about classes each of us have taught or are preparing to teach. Anna's tackling a class for October, which is set up as a social networking Q&A session for parents and teens. Jason taught a class about games as a guest speaker in a for-credit library course. Rachel's deep in preparation for a class where students may or may not have topics, the professor requested specific tools to be demonstrated, and it's at 8:30 in the morning to boot! We discussed tactics she could use to keep the students engaged.

Links/Resources:
  • Serious Game explanation via Wikipedia
  • America's Army
  • Passage
  • ACRL Webcast: Podcasting October 1st at 2pm Eastern
  • Internet Librarian 2009: Jason will be conducting a 15-minute Cybertour re: Podcasting
  • Conger, J. (2001). Wake up that back row: interactive library instruction without hands-on student computers. In C. Hales Mabry (Ed.), Doing the work of reference: practical tips for excelling as a reference librarian (pp. 309-322). Binghamton, NY: Haworth.

Part II (34:00-1:04:00; approx. 30 minutes)


Interview with Kim Duckett, Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies & Learning from North Carolina State University, about her involvement with creating contextual e-learning resources

Links/Resources:
Note: Kim wishes to thank those who have been critical to the creation of these projects: Hyun-Duck Chung, Dre Orphanides, Josh Wilson, Eleanor Smith, Emily Mazure, Sarah Bankston, and Susan Baker.

Join us for future episodes! If you’re interested, please post a comment on the Adventures in Library Instruction blog or email us! We’ll do it as a Skype discussion or you can record a segment on your own.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

What do you want us to talk about?

We're crowdsourcing the topics for the September episode of ALI, which we're recording next week. What would you like to hear us talk about?

Leave a comment here, or email us at adlibinstruction@gmail.com.