Rachel is an Educator That Rocks

Rachel has been profiled by the findingEducation blog! Read Rachel's origin story, her campaign for information literacy at American U, and more:

Educators That Rock!: Rachel Borchardt

Episode 12: March 2010 -- Learning Objects

Listen to Episode 12 (mp3; ~56 minutes)

Lauren Pressley, Instructional Design Librarian and author of So You Want To Be a Librarian and Wikis for Libraries, from Wake Forest University, joins Rachel, Jason and Anna for an informative talk on Learning Objects: what they are, how we use them, their support in learning, where we find them, what we use to create them, and how we analyze their usage.  *PHEW*

Show Notes:

• Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynolds Library Toolkit
• CLIP: Cooperative Library Instruction Project
• Cardiff University's Information Literacy Resource Bank
• ANTS: Animated Tutorial Sharing Project
• MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
• PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online
• LION: Library Information Literacy Online Network
• Great example from Chad Boeninger of using a Youtube video of a news clip as an in-class exercise
• TILT: Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
• Common Craft's "In Plain English" videos
• LoLa Exchange: Learning Objects, Learning Activities  
• NCSU Tutorials: Overview in an In The Library With a Lead Pipe post
• Information & Communication Technology Literacy: From The California State University
• Information Literacy 11: Plagiarism and Citation Styles YouTube video from bbaker48
• PSU's Information Cycle - Introducing how an event turns into news and information

Note from Anna and Rachel: And a huge congratulations to our friend, colleague, ALI co-producer, and all around great person, Jason Puckett for being named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker for 2010!

Episode 11: February 2010

Listen to Episode 11 (mp3; 1 hour, 3 minutes)

Sarah Steiner, Social Work and Assessment Librarian, from Georgia State University, joins Rachel, Jason and Anna for a great talk on all things assessment with library instruction (consultations, individual classes, as well as programmatic).

Show Notes:

• Virginia Tech Instruction Clearinghouse Initiative: Assessment Tools 
• Utah State University Assessment Page
• Radcliff, C. J., Jensen, M. L., Salem, Jr. J. A., Burhanna, K. J., & Gedeon, J. A. (2007). A practical guide to information literacy assessment for academic librarians. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.
• Johnson, M. (2010). This book is overdue!: How librarians and cybrarians can save us all. New York: Harper. 
• Nominate your library's best LibGuides on Springshare's site: http://bestof.libguides.com

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

Listen to this episode (mp3, 1 hour, 1 minute)

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.