28.Jun.2011 Mind Mapping with Popplet
I was recently invited to guest lecture in an LIS class, speaking to and leading discussion around embedded librarianship and thinking beyond information literacy. For this latter topic, I had this notion that it would be interesting to get students to brainstorm broadly about what other literacies there might be, and what being literate in [...]
09.Mar.2011 Teaching undergrads how to read scientific journal articles
By one of those funny coincidences, a day after we spent a science literacy class in iSci discussing some of the nuances of reading a scientific paper, Rob Weir’s ‘It’s not Harry Potter‘ appears in Inside Higher Ed detailing the same thing. In the program, students are thrown into the deep-end of information research very [...]
08.Jul.2010 An(other) afternoon with the Shads
This year, I spent another afternoon with the MacShads (Shad Valley students @ McMaster) along with my co-facilitator, Susan. We wanted to take an opportunity to do some non-library, non-information literacy instruction, free from all fetters of normal expectations. So, what we came up with was to riff off of the MacShad’s overall theme project [...]