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This spring, Emily Daly and I conducted a usability study of subject and course guides using the LibGuides interface at Duke. Emily and Alice Whiteside had completed a usability study in 2010 and made recommendations for guide design. We were interested in evaluating the guides again and seeing whether the guidelines needed [...]
Continue Reading →Approaching graduation and interviewing for jobs has caused me to reflect on what I’ve learned in the past two years and how it’s shaped my instruction philosophy. This is something I’ve had to articulate repeatedly in interviews, and I am happy to say that the experiences I’ve had at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill have prepared [...]
Continue Reading →The Horizon Report 2012 Higher Ed Edition identified Game-Based Learning as one of two technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the next two to three years. For those of you unfamiliar with the Horizon Report, it reports annual findings of the NMC (New Media Consortium) Horizon Project, “a decade-long research project designed to identify [...]
Continue Reading →Last month I traveled to UNC-Greensboro for the second workshop in the NCBIG Teacher Librarian Academy, led by Jenny Dale and Amy Harris. I covered the first workshop on developing learning outcomes, presented during the NCLA Biennial Conference, in a previous post. This time, it was a half-day immersion into student [...]
Continue Reading →If you’re looking for new tools to use in the classroom, you’re in luck! I’m happy to announce the unveiling of a new resource that Amber and I created. We’ve added two pages to this blog, toolkits which are designed to introduce librarians to technologies for library instruction.
Lately I’ve been experimenting with active learning and assessment methods in my library instruction sessions. Google Docs and Google Forms have provided me with abundant opportunities to engage students, assess their learning, and solicit feedback. I wanted to share a few ways I’ve been using these tools.
Google Docs
I’ve found that [...]
No, it’s not furniture. I attended the NCLA Biennial Conference in Hickory last week and wanted to share a few of the great ideas I picked up from libraries across the state.
Lessons Learned: Getting the Most Out of LibGuides
Some best practices shared by Jenny Dale from UNC-Greensboro:
Try to stick [...]
Continue Reading →Concept mapping is often used in instruction to facilitate knowledge acquisition by creating a visualization of the relationships between concepts. The use of concept mapping in the classroom originated with the work of Dr. Joseph D. Novak on representing emerging science knowledge in students (Novak & Cañas, 2008). Concept mapping can facilitate meaningful learning by [...]
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