Episode 10: January 2010 - The "It's-Still-January" Episode

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Rachel, Jason, and Anna share their research interests, their latest instruction endeavors, and a bit about instructional strategies.

Show Notes:

• Computer Learning Center -- where Anna may start doing some outreach/workshops.
• Penn State's Information Cycle -- Uses Columbine to demonstrate "how today's events are tomorrow's information" (Rachel likes using Pluto as an example for science classes)
• PORT tutorial for PsycInfo from GSU library
• They're Googling You: Online Identity for LIS Professionals [May 1 – 31, 2010]
  

Next Month's Episode: Assessment chat with a special guest! Make sure to tune in!

Episode 9: December 2009

We wrap up 2009 with talk of social networking, assessment, and plans for next year.

Rachel's EndNote LibGuides page

Episode 8: November 2009

Anna's social network class, Jason's trip to Internet Librarian, Rachel's campaign for information literacy at AU and an interview with public speaking teacher Christian Sager of Border Crossings about speech techniques for teaching.

Episode 7: October 2009 - Britney Spears and Semiconductors

Listen to this episode (mp3, 1 hour, 3 minutes)

Part I: (00:45 - 35:00, ~35 minutes)
In this episode, Jason, Anna and Rachel talk about what they've up to up, instruction-wise, for the past month. Highlights include Anna's social networking class, Jason's online workshop, and Rachel's grassroots information literacy struggles.

Links:
DiRT Wiki: http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com
Christian Sager's webcomic, Border Crossings: http://www.thelastisland.com
ALI logo's Skull, courtesy of Custopher: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gus/770596
ALI logo's Book, courtesy of King Unicorn: http://kingunicorn.blogspot.com

Part II: (35:00 - 1:03, ~28 minutes)
Rachel interviews Peter Larsen at the University of Rhode Island regarding their information literacy program and his tips for teachers.

Links:
Britney Spears and Semiconductors: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.html

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.

ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award

Nominations for the ACRL Instruction Section award are due December 9th. If you know of a project that "demonstrate[s] recognized creativity, quality, and innovation within the context of national trends in information literacy instruction or programming," let ACRL know about it so it can get some national recognition!

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

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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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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.