Proficiencies for instruction librarians

I’m embarrassed to admit that I’m the last UCSD instruction librarian to discover that there are actually standards of proficiency for instruction librarians! I ran across these ACRL proficiencies while I was cleaning out my office in preparation for the upcoming re-carpeting of S&E in the October 2007 issue of C&RL News. It was a very interesting exercise to go through the list of proficiencies and see how many I actually possess! Check them out.

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/profstandards.cfm

ACRL Springboard, If You Missed it Live!

ACRL Springboard Event archive and podcast interview with Henry Jenkins

On April 2, ACRL held its inaugural Springboard Event, an annual free webcast for ACRL members. The webcast featured Henry Jenkins, Co-Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT. The archive of Henry’s presentation will be made available on the ACRL website on April 16. More details are online here.

In the meantime, check out the podcast, “A Conversation with Henry Jenkins,” online here. In this podcast interview, Henry talks with College & Research Libraries News editor-in-chief David Free about presenting online, participatory culture, libraries, and rapper Soulja Boy as the poster boy for new media literacy.

Campus Technology’s 10 Tips

Campus Technology has come out with Ten Tips For Injecting New Technology into Your Campus–geared towards faculty, this list is, in my opinion, great for anyone trying to create something new while getting buy in from lots of folks.. My personal favorites? ‘Save time by skipping the pilot if you can’ & ‘Remember integration issues’ - Check it out here. Can you think of any recent changes here at UCSD that might have benefited from some of these tips?

EDUCAUSE Learning Initative Links

Dominique wanted to share these materials with you from her recent ELI meeting. Enjoy!

• ELI Annual Meeting web site
• What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies – podcast available . Highlights an upcoming documentary being created about how Wikipedia has reshaped cultural production of knowledge.
• Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries – podcast available . How the McMaster Libraries became recognized as one of the most innovative (received the ACRL Award for Innovation this year)
• Collaborative Design and Support of Effective Online Learning Environments – some online materials . How to develop online courses collaboratively with faculty, an instructional designer, and a librarian.
• Human Futures for Technology and Education – webcast available . Michael Wesch (creator of the video “the machine is us/ing us”). Very engaging talk about the future of undergraduate education.

Of course, the 2008 Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

100 ways to use your ipod to learn and study better

This is a great list of tips, tricks, websites and downloads for teachers and learners. The usual suspects are there, like Project Gutenberg, but really, there are things I have never heard of that I am definitely going to use! Check it out!
From The Online Education Database.

Wikipedia Joins Academe to Evaluate Itself

Good News with exciting results ahead I’d guess..

From the Chronicle Of Higher Education

Wikipedia is famous for its philosophy that ordinary people, not just scholars, have expertise to offer the public. But when it comes to evaluating the online encyclopedia itself, Wikipedia officials have apparently concluded that academe is best suited for the task.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, announced today that it will work with a research center — UNU-Merit — run by the United Nations University and the Netherlands’ Maastricht University to conduct its first Wikepedia survey. It will collect data over the next several months on who Wikipedia’s readers and contributors are, why they visit the site, and what they do there. The results are expected to be released this year at the Wikimania conference in Alexandria, Egypt.

“This will help us figure out how to persuade new people to start contributing, and how to keep contributors engaged,” Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said in a written statement.

Luc L. Soete, director of the research center, said the project fit well with his organization’s mission. He said Wikipedia helped people in developing countries gain access to knowledge. UNU-Merit, based in Tokyo, examines the social and political environments surrounding technological change.

The Machine Is Us/ing Us (again)..Information R/evolution

Did you love this as much as I did? Then you’re going to LOVE this.
“This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.”

PRIMO Site Of The Month!

Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles

Interview with Ielleen R. Miller and Jonathan D. Grubb Eastern Washington University
Interviewer: Anne Driscoll

Description: This flash tutorial teaches students how to compose basic bibliographic citations in MLA and APA formats. Explanation includes a rollover feature which provides additional information about the various parts of a citation (i.e. title). Students practice creating citations using a drag and drop format and click feature which gives immediate feedback on whether or not the citation was completed correctly.