In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills
Photo by Flickr user orangeacid My alternate title for this post was “The Internet is awesome. Start acting like it.” It is a call to arms to shift our attitude away from magnifying the perils of...
View ArticleNarrating the “Back Story” Through E-learning Resources in Libraries
We at In the Library with the Lead Pipe are happy to welcome two guest authors to our blog! Hyun-Duck Chung and Kim Duckett are two of our creative and inspiring colleagues at the North Carolina State...
View ArticleStepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable...
by Flickr user foreversouls Working in an academic environment, the majority of my student interactions are based around a specific assignment. Every semester there is at least one assignment that...
View ArticleSense of self: Embracing your teacher identity
Welcome to another guest post at ItLwtLP. This time we bring you thoughts from Carrie Donovan, an instruction librarian at Indiana University Bloomington. Enjoy! #307: Authenticity by assbach / CC-BY...
View ArticleLearning to teach through video
samsungtv 009 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/ousby/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 It’s a truth so many of us keep in the dark corners of our lives as instruction librarians: we were never taught to teach. We’re not...
View Article[RE]Boot Camp: Share Some. Learn More. Teach Better.
Wordle cloud of participants' goals Setting the Stage Last fall, as a part of the Texas Library Association’s “Transforming” initiative, my library held its own transforming retreat. Austin Community...
View ArticleWhat water?
Photo by Flickr user Nathan deGargoyle Recently I was lucky enough to come across the publication of a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace in 2005 to a group of wide-eyed graduates from...
View ArticleMaking it their idea: The Learning Cycle in library instruction
http://www.flickr.com/photos/penguinchris/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Librarians are always struggling to convince someone of something: convincing voters to say ‘yes’ to a library bond; persuading a library...
View ArticleCSI(L) Carleton: Forensic Librarians and Reflective Practices
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome guest authors Iris Jastram, Danya Leebaw, and Heather Tompkins. They are reference and instruction librarians at Carleton College, a small...
View ArticleFrom the Frying Pan Into the Fire (and Back Again): Adventures in...
In the Frying Pan / University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections My best experience as a teacher-librarian was leading a credit, semester-long course while a librarian at the University of...
View ArticleA New Polemic: Libraries, MOOCs, and the Pedagogical Landscape
“I MOOC” by IlonkaTallina, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 In Brief: The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has emerged in the past few years as the poster child of the online higher education revolution. Lauded and...
View ArticleIce Ice Baby: Are Librarian Stereotypes Freezing Us out of Instruction?
“empty spaces iv” by vassilis galopoulos In Brief: Why do librarians struggle so much with instruction? Part of the problem is that we have so many facets to consider: pedagogy, campus culture,...
View ArticleUnpacking and overcoming “edutainment” in library instruction
Photo by Flickr user Jen Kim (CC BY 4.0) In Brief Within our field, and more widely, there is a way of thinking that equates effective teaching with effective entertaining. This way of thinking can be...
View ArticleLibrarians Leading Short-Term Study Abroad
In Brief: Study abroad is a well-established method for transformative learning, recognized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities as a high-impact practice. Over the past decade,...
View Article“It was information based”: Student Reasoning when Distinguishing Between...
In Brief: We asked students to find an article and answer the following questions: Is this a popular or scholarly article? How can you tell? We analyzed student answers to better understand the...
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