Merinda McLure

03/26/2009

Spring

Filed under: instruction — Merinda @ 4:47 pm

It’s spring! and in that spirit I’m going to take a new stab at logging here what interests me.

At the CSU Libraries we’ve been looking forward to an upcoming visit with the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Jerilyn Veldof . That’s nudged me to take a fresh look around the Libraries’ website and their Unravel the Library workshop series has me thinking about how I might try differently framing and communicating my instructional services as an individual liaison librarian. Communicating a more descriptive menu of offerings – and including a series or several in the mix - might better explain the variety of ways in which I can support course instruction and student learning. All menu offerings endlessly customizable, but serving as starting points for creatively considering with faculty what might be most effective for a given course/group of students.

07/14/2008

Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors

Filed under: acrl, instruction — Merinda @ 10:30 am

New from ACRL, this library instruction pedagogy title announced on ACRLinsider.

07/02/2008

Creating Change: Teacher Librarians and New Learners

Filed under: acrl, instruction, research — Merinda @ 9:34 am

Christopher Hollister and the ACRL Instruction Section (IS) Conference Program Planning Committee organized a great IS program for ALA Annual, presented by Dr. Jeffrey Liles and entitled ”Creating Change: Teacher Librarians and New Learners” (ppt and select resources list). Leads to follow: Eric Jensen’s Brain-based learning: The new paradigm of teaching (forthcoming; see Brain-based learning) and George Siemens’ Connectivism: A learning theory for the new digital age.

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