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Posted Learning Styles? Forget it. to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
There are moments in ones career that just stop you in your tracks. So was it when I read this NPR piece about learning styles. Here's what Doug Rohrer, a psychologist at the University of South Florida found after reviewing...
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Posted Value of Instructional Designers in Libraries to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
I've long been a proponent of libraries contracting with or employing skilled instructional designers. We did that here at the U of MN a little over a year ago. Recently, Steven Bell had a chat with our designer and covered...
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Posted Workshops, presentations and consultations I have done in the past to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
I was recently asked for a list of workshops, presentations, and consultations I have done in the past to supplement this book. In this document I pulled from some of the titles and descriptions I have used in the past...
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Posted Project & Group Effectiveness Tools to Emerging Tech Expo
Presenter: Jerilyn Veldof ...
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Posted Now anyone can store and access their own assignments! to Assignment Calculators
In August, Minitex released its expanded and improved Research Project Calculator for public use! This version allows anyone to create an account, regardless if you are a Minnesota resident or not! This means you can store and edit your own...
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Posted FY10 Annual Report to News from Coordinated Educational Services
(based on a template)For the full Word document go to https://netfiles.umn.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-15397175_11. What were the major goals of the department this past year? Describe accomplishments within these goals. Digital Reference The University Libraries completed a transition to OCLC's QuestionPoint platform for...
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Posted CES Contribution to Wendy's Annual Review to News from Coordinated Educational Services
Innovations or substantial new undertakingsThe Libraries partnered with the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence and the SMART Learning Commons to provide the Peer Research Consultant Program, targeted to support First Year Writing students and MCAE program and scholarship students. Peer...
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Posted CES Contribution to the MINITEX Report - March 2010 to News from Coordinated Educational Services
Peer Research ConsultantsThe University Libraries' Peer Research Consultants (PRC) program is in its second semester. The program's goal is to support students as they do library research and find sources to use in their writing. Students can take advantage of...
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Posted What are we doing to help first year students? to News from Coordinated Educational Services
Kate Peterson gave a wonderful presentation today to our Friends of the Library group about a few of the programs we offer to students that support and enhance their learning; namely the online Unravel workshops and the Peer Research Consultants...
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Posted Culture of Library Teaching to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
Recently I read an interesting LISNews blog entry by Susan Ariew (University of South Florida) called "The Teaching Librarian Versus The Teacher" in which she explores how the teaching mission in large academic libraries is often not understood or valued...
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Posted Jody Gray published in C&RL News! to News from Coordinated Educational Services
"A Different Approach to Diversity Outreach: Partnerships and Collaboration at the University of Minnesota" was just published in the February 2010 issue of College & Research Libraries News. In it, Jody discusses her unique position bridging the University Libraries and...
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Posted And... cut down on those BULLET points on your Powerpoints! to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
As a follow-up to my last posting: There's a great overview on the Bob Pike Group website of some research done by Chris Atherton, a cognitive psychologist. To whet your appetite here's a couple take-aways: "1. Don't say too much....
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Posted Kudos to CES Staff to News from Coordinated Educational Services
From a recent Monday Memo:Jody Gray Honored by the American Indian Student Cultural CenterEach year the American Indian Student Cultural Center honors women of the community who have "displayed outstanding achievements." This year Jody Gray received this award at a...
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Posted Updates to code coming to Assignment Calculators
Just a heads-up that Minitex is rewriting its Research Project Calculator implementation to bring its teacher resources into the AC beta, with an eye toward extensibility. It will be written with on PHP / MySQL foundation to meet the platform...
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Posted 2008-09 Unravel Quick Update to News from Coordinated Educational Services
Nearly 3000 students took the in-person Unravel workshops. The online Unravel 2 pilot reached an additional 500 students.Average quiz scores:In-person - 85% Online - 88% Spring '09 a large journalism class started requiring their students to take Unravel 1 and...
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Posted Cut down those PowerPoints! to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
It's such a relief hearing so much talk about how cramming tons of words and information into PowerPoint slides is so... yesterday. One of the big proponents of that is Guy Kawasaki who created what he calls the 10/20/30 Rule...
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Posted CES Contribution to the MINITEX Policy Advisory Committee - September 2009 to News from Coordinated Educational Services
The Information Literacy Toolkit is intended to help our librarians increase their knowledge of information literacy, share best practices, and facilitate creating high-quality learning materials. The toolkit includes sample lesson plans, worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, and more. The Assignment Calculator breaks...
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Posted Ten Teaching Tips to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
Our Information Literacy Collaborative here at the U of MN came up with this list of teaching tips for our librarians. Great advice - take a look! 1. Less is More. Avoid too much content. Remember the brain can only...
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Posted Making presentations TED style to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
Although I talk mostly about designing workshops here in this blog, the reality is that lots of us also have to do our "sage on the stage" bit every once in awhile. Lucky for us, Garr Reynold's in his Presentation...
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Posted Vetting (or filtering) information to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
I stumbled on this great piece from the Bottom-Line Performance blog that I think is worth sharing (and it's certainly something I focus on a lot in my training librarian workshops): "The challenge for instructional designers is no longer finding...
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Posted Gorilla Approaches to Instructional Design to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
I just got off the phone with a librarian from major state university who is bringing me in for a half-day workshop. Given what she called a "catastrophic" economic situation in her state and university it became clear to me...
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Posted Check out the new Assignment Calculator Beta to University Libraries Academic Programs News
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Posted Check out the BETA version to Assignment Calculators
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Posted Interesting teaching technique to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
I just learned from CLENExchange another teaching technique that sounds like a great one to combine with the jigsaw technique. It's called Pecha Kucha, a 20x20 presentation where students develop 20 slides and each slide gets 20 seconds of presentation...
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Posted Is In-Person or Online Instruction Better? to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
This is a question that has been asked and studied about for ages. Claudia Stanny from the University of West Florida provided a citation today in a "POD" listserv post to a meta-analysis of 40 years of research comparing...
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Posted Check these out! A list of 25 education blogs to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
As you know, as teachers and instructional designers we're a big part of the education field and sometimes less part of the library "industry.", yet we tend to read our own blogs, publications and go to our own conferences. So...
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Posted Creating "niched" learning opportunities to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
Here's an interesting blurb that appeared on an Educause Learning Initiative site exploring the future of education: "When Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard University, sat down with students in a Philadelphia private school...
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Posted Getting rid of some of your content to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
One of my favorite blogs has a great entry about weeding through content and figuring out what are your need-to- knows. The entry is geared towards instructional designers creating e-learning, but applicable to in-person delivery as well. Check it out:...
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Posted Training is About Creating CHANGE to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
Bob Pike and Ken Blanchard had a teleseminar recently (download here) in which they talked about trainers as change agents. This powerful blurb is from that discussion: Training is about creating… CHANGE. CHANGE… in the way people do things. CHANGE…...
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Posted Getting to the Real Need to Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Blog
As I've said before in this blog (and over and over the workshops I give), the needs assessment step in the design process is absolutely critical. One of the most challenging parts of this step is uncovering what the real...
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