ALI Episode 4, July 2009: Professional development without a budget

We talk about ALA, conferences, current teaching stuff, and professional development with little or no budget. Links to some of the things we mentioned:

• ALI Zotero group
  
• Call for Speakers --> Computers in Libraries 2010. Information Fluency: Literacy for Life. (submissions due september 15th)
• Library Society of the World site, their blog, and on Friendfeed where a lot of the chatter takes place
• ALA electronic conference participation
• Free webinar software-- dimdim, vRoom by Elluminate, yugma
• Some of the local orgs and groups we mentioned: Atl Area BIG, Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative (CJRLC), WRLC, Atlanta Emerging Librarians
• Online instructional resources like STS' Information Literacy wiki and Libsuccess Wiki

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 all on your own.

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

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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.

Episode 2: May 2009

In which we reply to some feedback and ramble a bit about Wikipedia. (Uncredited cameo appearance by Rachel's cat Sadie.)

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Links from our discussion (0:00-26:46)

• Colbert on elephants and wikiality
• Digital Campus podcast
• Student's fake Wikipedia quote attributed in newspaper obituaries
• Communications in Information Literacy
• ACRL webcast: Podcasting for Libraries (presented by Jason) June 2.

Community Workshop Series links (26:46-47:28):

• Community Workshop Series Site
• CIPA Overview
• University of North Carolina Libraries
• APPLES Service Learning Program at UNC-CH
• UNC School of Information and Library Science

Libguides links (47:36-56:13):

• Libguides demo system
• Jason's Libguides
• Scottsdale Community College: one example of a library using Libguides as their entire website

Tips for partnering with faculty (56:18-1:07:41)

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Episode 1: April 2009

Wow. We got all excited about the first episode and went on talking for a while! We'll try to keep future episodes under an hour. First Anna, Rachel and Jason have a chat about how we ended up in the library classroom and what we think about that. Anna discusses the Cephalonian Method and Rachel talks about Critical Evaluation Family Feud, two active learning activities, and Jason interviews library consultant and author Beth Gallaway about gaming as a teaching tool.

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Links:

Cephalonian Method:

• Cephalonian Method (Wikipedia)
  
• Innovative library induction: Introducing the 'Cephalonian Method'

Family Feud:

• Just, Marcel Adam. "Interdependence of Nonoverlapping Cortical Systems in Dual Cognitive Tasks." NeuroImage 14 (2001): 417-26.
• Blakeslee, Sandra. "Car Calls May Leave Brain Short-Handed." New York Times 31 July 2001.
• Willis, C. M. "Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: proof of principle study." British Medical Journal 329 (2004): 7439-445.
• McNeil, Donald G., Jr. "Moise Nose Shows Promise in Tracking Down Cancers." New York Times 28 September 2004.
• Qualls, Lori. "He's convinced dog can detect cancer." Midland Daily News 27 January 2008.

Beth Gallaway on gaming:

• Library Gaming Toolkit
• Library Gaming Google Group
• Information Literacy Instruction Using Gaming Strategies
• Games in Libraries Podcast
• ALA Connect
• Ben 10: Alien Force Game Maker
  

• Harris, Amy. Gaming in Academic Libraries: Collections, Marketing, andInformation Literacy. Chicago: ACRL, 2008.
• Gallaway, Beth. Game On: Gaming in Libraries, Neal Schuman, 2009.
• Neiburger, Eli. Gamers... In the Library?! ALA, 2007