Tuesday, July 23, 2013

this is a Camtasia tutorial I did for our library, introducing students to the Reference section as a way to pick a topic for their assignments. We have a professional sound guy on campus that helped me.
This is a link to my favorite tour I found while researching library tours and what other folks say to students:
I'm always curious about how other librarians are using survey tools in their classes:
http://blog.surveymonkey.com/blog/2013/05/14/customer-spotlight-grand-valley-state-university-libraries/

i don't have texting on my phone so I always felt a little left out at conference presentation that took polls from the audience. They are a great way to get a quick read on an audience though!

Google reader goodbye

I am fascinated by the demise of Google Reader. Especially after I switched over to them a few years back when bloglines was going away (They didn't.)
http://betabeat.com/2013/07/booting-up-supposedly-google-reader-is-dead-because-no-one-wanted-to-take-care-of-it/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/what-will-replace-google-reader.html

I did ad the flipboard app to my ipad a few weeks ago. This is a great and beautiful way to read articles when I'm not attached to the internet. Or so they say.. I haven't tried it yet!
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/19006/20130723/flipboard-mac-pc-google-reader-alternative-feedly.htm

Friday, July 19, 2013

cheating infographic

Sometimes I just love infographics
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/07/23/do-online-students-cheat-more-often/

Surveymonkey and assessment

Interesting article discussing surveymonkey and similar survey tools as bad ideas for ture assessment of learning
http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/spectrum/Archives/Vol-14/No-2/pub-sp0911-monkey.pdf

Offers good guidelines on creating a survey with the tools, but warns of specific pitfalls and ways to make the most of the free tool.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Adventures in library instruction

http://adlibinstruction.blogspot.com/
A great blog that enlists the perspectives of librarians who teach. Have gotten many ideas and I love that I can listen to them in my office or on my mp3 player! Great use of podcast software.

One-Shot library instruction

This blog looks interesting in terms of the way i teach most of the classes for the library: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/workshopdesign/
I can see some of the advice helping to develop online webinars for faculty and face to face options for students. Could lead to a for-credit class in the future?