MLA: Current Trends in Instruction: Summaries and Discussion

Minnesota Library Association Conference
Current Trends in Instruction: Summaries and Discussion
October 7, 1010

Kristen Mastel, Outreach and Instruction Librarian (meye0539@umn.edu)
Kate Peterson, Information Literacy Librarian (katep@umn.edu)

Conferences Attended:

• LOEX 2010, April 29-May 1, Dearborn, MI
  http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html

• LOEX of the West, June 10-12, Calgary, Alberta
  http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/lotw/
  

• ALA Annual Conference, June 24-30, Washington D.C.
  http://presentations.ala.org/
  

Selected Themes:

Livening up your instruction session (storytelling, images, narrative, comics, etc.)

Silverman, C. (2007). Regret the error: How media mistakes pollute the press and imperil free speech. New York: Union Square Press.

Dalhousie Libraries Cartoons & Humor: http://infolit.library.dal.ca/staff/cartoons.htm

Supporting Students on Topics

Making it "stick"
Making it their idea: The Learning Cycle in library instruction by Eric Frierson in In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Marek, E. A., Cavallo, A. M. L., & Renner, J. W. (1997). The learning cycle: Elementary school science and beyond. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Using images to find/refine a topic.  What do you see? What do you want to know more about?  What does this mean to __ (time/place)?

Group brainstorming topic activity sheet: http://www.mtroyal.ca/library/files/lotw2010/davidson.pdf  

Additional Resources:

• Seewald, Joel & Brown, Lesley.  LOEX 2010 Conference Report: Dearborn, MI.  LOEX Quarterly 37(1). (Spring 2010).   http://hdl.handle.net/1970/928. After clicking on a link, click on "View/Open" to open the article, and then log in (username: loex_member, Password: loex1849)
• Slides and Handouts from LOEX 2010: http://www.loexconference.org/2010/program/sessions.html