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Reflecting on “Are Librarians Really Teachers?”
Polger, Mark Aaron and Okamoto, Karen Are Librarians Really Teachers? : Reflections and Analysis., 2009 . In WILU 2009 (Workshop on Instruction in Library Use), Montreal, Quebec (Canada), 25-27 May 2009. (PDF)
Disclaimer: I didn’t see this presentation in person and a PPT only tells part of the story. Also, I went to library [...]
Try an elimination diet, so to speak, to re-ignite your interest in library instruction
Further to my post on Wednesday, I’d also say that it would be useful to do something I like to call the Elimination Diet to re-ignite your interest in library instruction.
In the medical profession, an Elimination Diet is used to identify food sensitivities. Anyone who is diagnosed lactose intolerant would be familiar with this [...]
Getting too much grief from your students regarding your library instruction? Been there!
A friend of mine was telling me that library instruction hasn’t been as rewarding for her lately as it used to be and a lot of it has to do with the rude, disrespectful behaviour of her students.
I’ve been there myself! When I first started teaching, the heckling could be so bad [...]
If you ever wanted to teach to students how packaged the media are, what’s happening right now in Canada would be a fabulous example!
This past week, I’ve been given example after example to use for information literacy instruction on how students need to be aware that our media is just as packaged as everything else. As things continue in Ottawa, it is becoming more and more apparent to me, probably for the first time in my life, [...]
Posted by Laurie on December 8th, 2008 under Laurie speaks!, Library Instruction | Comment now »My first attempt at using Role Playing in my InfoLit instruction
On Friday, I used role playing for the first time with a class. It went really, really well. I’d definitely rank it as one of my top three positive experiences teaching information literacy! Yes, it really went that well!
What I did: I had a volunteer from the class (a student who [...]
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