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ALA.
Library
Instruction Round
Table LOEX [Library Orientation Exchange].
Clearinghouse for Library Instruction
Professional
Associations
Association
of College and
Research Libraries. Instruction Section.
Intent of the site is "... to enhance the ability
of academic and research
librarians to adevance learning, teaching and research with respect to information literacy in higher education."
Look under "Standards and Guidelines" and note the following useful guidelines:
ALA's section on library instruction represents
all
types of libraries and supports library instruction as an essential
service for every library. The site includes some useful links to information on designing tutorials and
some nice teaching tips. Lists of the
"Top 20 Instruction Articles" are provided annually -- most recently for 2002; there's also a "top of the top" list. The
LIRT Web Standards and
Guidelines provide useful guidelines.
Copyright-free materials related to all aspects
of library
instruction
donated by
libraries and librarians. See Instruction
Links
for featured
web sites, sample assignments and syllabi, teaching tips, virtual tours,
tutorials, and the like. Some useful material for international
students. A large print collection is maintained at
Eastern Michigan Univ. and can be borrowed by member libraries/ians.
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UNC. Center
for
Teaching
and Learning
It will be worthwhile to check out this site, especially the serial publication, For Your Consideration. Of particular value to this class are the following:
- FYC 9: Evaluating Student Projects. Some good assessment methods here.
- FYC 12: The Guided Discussion. Good for ideas on ways to ask questions to elicit a good discussion.
- FYC 18: Planning, Designing, and Evaluating Student Assignments. Has some nice examplar criteria standards.
The Diversity in the College Classroom report is valuable as well. The Center no longer publishes these but what is here is valuable. The Teaching at Carolina handbook contains helpful guidelines for developing a developing a course syllabus, for teaching techniques, for that all-important first day of class, among others. A publication called Diversity in the College Classroom will be of interest as you consider how to best reach all the audience members in your classes.
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Here's a list of tutorials provided by a wide variety of academic institutions. If you find others, let me know and I'll add them.
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UC Berkeley -- The Teaching Library
Mission Statement: "The Teaching Library's aim is to promote information literature as part of the undergraduate experience." Some guides, teaching projects, services for faculty, and current course pages and information guides.
A librarian-built resource INFOMINE "is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the University level." Librarians from a number of institutions (including Wake Forest U) contributed to it.
CalPoly (CSU) Information Competence
Project
A project completed in March 1999 and last updated in June 2001. Includes a good collection of tutorials and a page of other "information competence" sites on the web and a list of online tutorials. Eye appeal is negative for me -- perhaps it will strike you differently.
Cornell
University. Uris Library.
Good online tutorial, "Seven Steps to Effective Library Research." Includes a number of video clips for Real Player.The University of Iowa Libraries. -- The Information Arcade.
Mission is "to facilitate the integration of new technology into teaching, learning, and research, by promoting the discovery of new ways to access, gather, organize, analyze, manage, create, record, and transmit information." Emphasis on use of "aggressive effort" to make electronic resources available and "collaborative efforts."
Internet
Navigator -- Utah's
Multi-institutional Internet Course
Part of an effort by the Utah Academic Consortium and a Health Sciences Library intended, among other things, to create a "collaborative interactive learning environment that eliminates time, distance and location barriers." The Internet Navigator is a bit slow to load and requires flash but gives you an idea.University of Waterloo The Library Information Space
Among other things, special services for persons with disabilities. .
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"Committed to quality online education." One useful feature is "effective practices." Another is "Third Thursday" online seminars on distance education related topics. .
Center for Instructional Technology.
A variety of support services offered at UNC. Check out the Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative (under collaborations) and the many instructional tools (many related to Blackboard). Several publications of interest including CIT Infobits.
Hands-on self-paced learning modules for a variety of networking and software areas, e.g., Cisco, Project Management, Sybase, C++, UNIX and the like.
An online refereed journal on integrating information technology into teaching and managing educational institutions.Training Journal
A practical source for folks involved in workplace training.
