http://charlottejones.net/blog college teaching tools for the hip traditionalist Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:15:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had hoped to hand my camera to a stranger and get a nice picture of me smiling beside the poster session on Friday . . . but something MUCH better happened. This is the only shot I got because so many people came by that I never got ... http://charlottejones.net/blog/thank-you-for-coming-to-the-poster-session/ Craig Wheeler, Humanities Reference Librarian at Texas A&M, Commerce, and Maria Hudson Carpenter, Library Advancement & Communications Officer at Northeastern University in Boston, get ready to make some noise at the highly unusual workshop "Facilitation and Experiential Techniques for Changing Behaviors in Library Work Teams" on Friday at ACRL. ... http://charlottejones.net/blog/at-acrl-a-day-of-different-drummers/ Well, it has started off with as close to a tent revival as 3,000 librarians are ever going to get! Michael Eric Dyson, the prolific and sometimes controversial author of more than a dozen books on American culture, dug down to his academic roots and to his training as ... http://charlottejones.net/blog/blogging-from-acrl/ I had a great time teaching today. One of the things I love about my job as a social sciences librarian is leading in-class library research strategy sessions. Among academic librarians, these things are called "one-shots" because you get one shot at instilling enough library skills in a roomful ... http://charlottejones.net/blog/pacman-worketh/ In the aftermath of my Schoolhouse Rock awakening, I finally actually read Diana Oblinger's seminal article Boomers, Gen-Xers & Millennials: Understanding the New Students. These are ideas that have been avidly discussed and adopted on my campus by an informal learning community of faculty, librarians, and administrators. (UMW has been ... http://charlottejones.net/blog/pacman-cometh/ I'm getting that sheepish feeling again. The one I get when I've just told you to be careful with your sloppy hamburger and look down to notice that the condiments are dribbling out of my own burger onto my new white shirt. My latest embarrassment was brought about by two ... http://charlottejones.net/blog/another-blob-of-ketchup-on-my-shirt-front/ Okay, I know many will say that I have come very late to this party, but I am considering asking students to bring laptops to some library instruction sections this semester. I am a bit embarrassed to admit that our library’s classroom does not have individual computers for students to try ... http://charlottejones.net/blog/late-to-the-laptop-party/