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PA Forward Information Literacy Summit 2015

Posted on June 30, 2015 by jjm38

Rapid Prototyping Active Learning: Aligning Your Favorite Teaching within the Framework My presentation, worksheet , and examples are available as PDF files Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework Ellysa Cahoy’s Threshold Concepts in Plain English http://bit.ly/1gbiY3g John’s Online … Continue reading →

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reading Reflective Learning, Effective Teaching

Posted on May 16, 2012 by jjm38

I have decided to blog my activities and reflections while reading Char Booth’s Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators. Partially to keep with the theme of the book and also so I don’t write in this… Continue reading →

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Reflections on Teaching with Technology

Posted on May 2, 2012 by jjm38

I have created an online teaching portfolio as part of the Penn State Teaching with Technology certificate program. In additional to serving as a record of my teaching, it also has example documents and learning objects I have created as… Continue reading →

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Success in Teaching, or my presentation proposal for the ACRL Spring Virtual Institute

Posted on December 14, 2011 by jjm38

Here is my proposal just submitted for a 20 minute webcast in the spring of 2012 to the ACRL Spring Virtual Institute (with a significant finding in bold)Traditional one shot information literacy sessions when only one class period is devoted… Continue reading →

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Notes on Library Instruction

Posted on December 6, 2011 by jjm38

These are a few notes I had taken on teaching information literacy…Student Learning Outcomes are the first step to an information literacy program- create learning outcomes for a class- create a cycle of teaching an assessmentTeach a concept early then… Continue reading →

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Teaching Growth (actually just productivity)

Posted on November 15, 2011 by jjm38

I was updated our digital dossier program with my instructional statistics, when I noticed a nice pattern. Growth… {“dataSourceUrl”:”//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ai_LJ8fvp-P-dGZ5TllacHRoNDRLZGstXzQxRWJFcnc&transpose=1&headers=1&range=A1%3AD6&gid=0&pub=1″,”options”:{“vAxes”:[{“title”:null,”minValue”:null,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{“min”:null,”max”:null},”maxValue”:null},{“viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}}],”hAxis”:{“maxAlternations”:1},”hasLabelsColumn”:true,”isStacked”:false,”width”:600,”height”:371},”state”:{},”chartType”:”ColumnChart”,”chartName”:”Chart 2″}… Continue reading →

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Library Instruction with 48 hours notice

Posted on September 9, 2011 by jjm38

So I had to negotiate an information literacy session with less than 2 days notice. Scheduling a room, getting the assignment and feedback from the instructor all at the last minute. I actually wound up getting a HEAP from the… Continue reading →

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Digital Storytelling and Scholarship

Posted on July 20, 2011 by jjm38

Workshop (beta) during the Learning Design Summer Camp.Developed as a class for students (and faculty) in use of the Knowledge Commons- similar approach to writing a scholarly paper: Research + Engaging Narrative- Finding sources – not just information but multimedia… Continue reading →

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Upward Bound Science – Reflection

Posted on June 21, 2011 by jjm38

Session went well, though did not seem to engage the students very much.Pros: Began with Lionsearch, ended with Lionsearch, was a solid message and saw over half of the students looking at their results as I wandered the rows.Asked a… Continue reading →

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Upward Bound Science – Lesson Plan

Posted on June 21, 2011 by jjm38

Notes from last year: Just over 60 minutes, had 10 minutes extra time. Went too fast, slow down and give more basic examples. They had access accounts. Create a hands on activity.Learning objectivesUnderstand the basic organization and locations of the… Continue reading →

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