Felicia A. Smith

Cybrarian Extraordinaire (eBook, PDF)

Compelling Information Literacy Instruction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Enhance your library instruction class by using this hands-on guide and learn numerous unique active learning exercises. The effectiveness of active-learning approaches to instruction is well documented. What is needed now are proven, practical applications. Written for every librarian or teacher looking for such new and creative teaching techniques, Cybrarian Extraordinaire: Compelling Information Literacy Instruction fills the gap. Based on the author's own experiences, the book shares specific active-learning exercises created to make library instruction more engaging for a wide variety of audiences. Specifically, author Felicia A. Smith illustrates the process of creating "edu-tainment" activities designed to serve serious instructional goals in a manner that is both fun and effective. Her book provides detailed examples of innovative ways to engage students in mandatory library classes. Among other ideas, it explores the use of e-readers as learning tools and describes the planning and possibilities involved in creating classes in online worlds, such as Second Life. Of course, it also explains the evolution of Smith's Pirate Librarian, offering exercises that reinforced the "library material as buried treasure" theme.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781598846065
• Artikelnr.: 37965887

Autorenporträt

Felicia A. Smith is an associate librarian who specializes in the areas of Latino studies and sociology at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1 Cybrarian Roads to Information Literacy Instruction
Preprofessional Experiences Resident Librarian 2 Resident Librarian Never
Give Up The Birth of an Extraordinary Cybrarian The Teacher Is Also the
Student Grading Student Assignments Teaching Databases Teaching Hints
Active Learning First Time for Everything: Creating the Commercial
Storyboarding Script The Importance of Committees in Academic Libraries
Groupthink Pitfalls Making Teaching Interesting and Fun Verbots Facebook
and Podcasts The Birth of the PiRRRate TeacheRRR The Mechanics of Teaching
For-Credit vs. Orientation Courses Fifteen-Minute Drop-in Sessions
Outreach Classes and Workshops SmartBoard Workshop for Library Employees
Achieving Continued Employment Closing 3 Moving into the Virtual
World: From Having No Life to Having a Second Life Helping Your Fellow
Librarians with Second Life 4 Outreach Librarian and Wireless Reading
Devices Stall Notes 5 Planning and Selling Instruction by the KISSS
Preparation Method (Keep It Simple, Significant, Silly) Leaving the Library
for the Classroom Sample Educational Games 6 Evaluating Your Courses 7
Sharing the Present, Preparing for the Future Appendix A: Updated
Storyboard (PPT) Appendix B: Journal Highlights and Evaluation Survey
Results Appendix C: Sample Daily Syllabus and Written Class Activity
Appendix D: Stall Notes Bibliography Index