LOEXcess
Another excellent LOEX day…for a day and a half conference, I have to say this is one of the more practical and useful conferences I’ve been too. So many ideas to mull over and consider. A brief recap of what I went to yesterday and today for now and then I will elaborate later:
Friday–I already mentioned the Brain Research talk. Wow.
Cloning ourselves–using videocasts to create tutorials
Media Literacy–using media literacy as a lens for teaching information literacy in general. Some resources: Alliance for a Media Literate America; Center for Media Literacy
How to Embed a Librarian–a different take on the process…this librarian actually attended the class and did the readings and “infiltrated” the course.
Dynamic Duo–Collaboration between Writing Centers and Academic Libraries–can’t wait to talk to the Writing Center about some of what I saw here. Here’s a link for more info: http://dynamicduo.pbwiki.com. More later.
Saturday:
The morning plenary was a panel of faculty who gave their perspective on having library instruction in their courses. Lots of good discussion…I’ll elaborate more on this later.
Phenomenography–researching users’ perceptions by asking them questions to describe their experiences using information.
From guest lecturer to assignment consultant–today’s highlight. Lots of info to apply to the Tech Fellow proposal, I think. More on this later, too.
Game-based multimedia approach to library orientation–the game on this site will be live soon: http://library.osu.edu/sites/fye
Instruction 2.0–this was a discussion group. Lots of cool things going on. This site has great examples: http://loexsd.pbwiki.com (let me know if you want the password–don’t want to publish it “live” online since it’s not my site).
The conference concluded this afternoon with us being asked to say who we met at the conference that we’d like to follow up on (I want to learn more about a strategy of letting the students pick the agenda for instruction sessions by asking them “what do you want to learn” which Tracey Mayfield, one of the LOEX coordinators told me about [I sat next to her at lunch today]), an idea that we want to incorporate (too many to pick just one right now–need to think them through and priortize) and, what part of our daily workflow we’re willing to drop to make room for these new things–the hardest question of all.
I leave you with a picture of the view from my “Tower” window:
and…
a baby duck!
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