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:

• Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface
• Peer Review in 5 Minutes
• libncsu YouTube Channel
• NCSU library's projects on their library's website with credits pages
• Literature Review: An Overview for Graduate Students
• Article Databases in 5 Minutes
• Brown, J. S., Collins, A., & Duguid, P. (1989). Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Educational Researcher, 18(1), 32-42.

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.

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