There are real challenges in teaching a required information literacy class to college freshmen, but we keep trying to make our class, LALT 101, more relevant and interesting to our students.
Through last spring, students took weekly quizzes through WebCT. It made for easy (read: automatic) grading for the instructors, and it helped students prep for [...]
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I don’t know much about the Library Society of the World, but I like their style and followed the lead of many clever and attractive librarians and declared myself a Shover and Maker.
You should too!
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Classes started at AUC two weeks ago, but we’re just starting our first real session next week, in part because of an exemption exam and in part because of some construction delays on our new campus. In any case, as I prepare to teach two sections of our semester-long library class, I find myself wondering [...]
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Via the Chronicle’s Wired Campus, I read that the Encyclopedia Britannica online is now welcoming “greater participation” from its users. Hmm, an encyclopedia with user participation… sounds familiar.
The Britannica press release emphasizes how they are not Wikipedia (which isn’t named, of course):
Two things we believe distinguish this effort from other projects of online collaboration are [...]
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