14.Jul.2011 “Explaining Science” – A presentation at the Western Conference on Science Education
I had a brief, but enjoyable, visit to the Western Conference on Science Education at UWO (July 6-8, 2011). I attended on the Thursday to share with educators in attendance some of the things we’re experimenting with in the Science Literacy component of iSci. The format was interesting – speakers were paired up by topic [...]
10.Feb.2010 Becoming Expert Searchers
An advanced search strategies presentation for iSci. Including boolean!
14.Sep.2009 Library 101 for iSci 2009
Technically, my first information literacy class. The first hour and a bit was taken up with this ‘lecture’, which included some opportunity to discuss evaluation criteria for websites, and a source jeopardy game. Part II, the second hour and a half, required the students to find, collect, checkout, photocopy, print, and cite. They did this [...]