Making science librarianship wonderful
“We all know that when people don’t know something, the 1st person they ask is a friend …, so everyone should be friends with a librarian” – J. West
Recent Blog Posts by Annie
crummy sites to use for evaluation
not hoaxes, but bad sites for students to develop for critiques annotations from ILI, links removed so as not to give the automatic link-checking algorithms a boost: http://www.know-vaccines.org/ member of Medical Veritas, which was a “journal” from 2004 to 2008 whose...
Rubrics 2.0
Have the students create rubrics - this link includes great rationale (buy in, work with the rubric, clarify purpose) and links to other examples [like this one with 16 VALUE rubrics from AACU]:...
Instructional design books
with annotations: -The Essentials of Instructional Design (Brown & Green). Meant for undergrads but it's a fantastic overview and introduction to the topic. -Instructional Design (Smith & Ragan). Advanced and a slog to get through. Nonetheless, it's a standard...
better libguide idea
nesting similar courses in 1 tab. from Ken Simon at Pasadena City College: "We just switched to doing this, and our librarians are relieved not to be swimming in a huge list of largely similar guides for different courses within a discipline — and even guides for...
Icebreaker ideas from ILI
I like some of these, but I'm not sure how many I'd feel comfortable using for a one shot. I'm going to try to facts based think-pair-share one today using facts from Project Information Literacy. Click here to download a .pdf file of a bunch of instruction ideas_...
An assessment overview from Kathy Stroud
"This page is to share references to good articles on Assessment of One-Shot Instruction Sessions. There is also a link to my [Kathy Stroud's] presentation at the June 19, 2014 Subject Specialists meeting. The bulk of the references are to summative assessment -...