http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc Instruction & Outreach Blog Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:43:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not to be confused with TxtMob, which is also great, this new tool looks pretty interesting. Create polls that students can text the answers in to! Sort of like clickers, but without the clickers...As far as I can tell it's free, and it certainly looks easy to set up (similar ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/09/04/text-the-mob/ Check out how Yale’s Science Library is applying Twitter (microblogging service) and Flickr (photosharing service) to deliver online instruction and outreach! https://twitter.com/yalescilib http://flickr.com/photos/yalescilib/collections/72157600264276497/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/08/04/innovative-online-instruction-outreach/ Geisel Welcome Week Tours data from 2007 & 2006: 2007, Geisel Tour Survey Results 2007, Geisel Tours, Random Sample of Majors and College Affiliation 2007 Tour Pix 2006, Geisel Tour Survey Results 2006, Geisel Tours, Random Sample of Majors and College Affiliation http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/08/01/geisel-ww-tours-student-data-feedback/ Apple recently sent out one of its first emails promoting iTunes U, which claims to presently contain more than 50,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. Here's a link to more info and a video tutorial. It’s rumored that ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/08/01/itunes-u/ I'm not sure exactly how you'd use this--I'm thinking presentations.. But Wordle is just really nifty. Paste in some text or a url and it creates a lovely little cloud for you. Try it! http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/07/31/wordle-clouds/ The new issue of LOEX quarterly is available and online. The instructions I received in the email announcement seem a little...involved. So I'll include them here. "Volume 35, Issue 1 of the LOEX Quarterly is now posted. Remember: as with the previous issue, the Quarterly has migrated to a new, more ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/07/16/new-loex-quarterly-2/ This article might gives us some of the data for our student assumptions & IL, and might be worth delving into at a meeting at some point in the future. It is a huge report (may be slow to load too) – a quick peek at the summary ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/07/09/first-year-student-assessment/ Here are some links to the UCSD WASC information: General information about the process: http://accreditation.ucsd.edu/Default.aspx Campus committees: http://accreditation.ucsd.edu/committees.aspx Past accreditation reports: http://accreditation.ucsd.edu/historical/ Approach for the Educational Effectiveness Review (including Information Literacy) http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/07/08/wascucsd/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/07/02/proficiencies-for-instruction-librarians/ This is painfully late, but hopefully I can get it posted before all the ALA updates! The theme of this year’s LOEX was Librarian as Architect: Planning, Building and Renewing. Slides and handouts for some of the presentations are here. I’m highlighting three sessions I ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/ioc/2008/07/02/loex-2008/