Archive for September, 2011

Limericks

Tue 20 Sep 2011, 2:48 pm

I’m sitting in on (or “embedded in” as we say for some reason in libraryland) a first year experience class at my college. It’s a combination introduction to poetry and history of the English language class, and it’s wonderful, and I expect I’ll tell more later. But for today, limericks. The class had me going [...]

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We’re desperate! And friendly!

Thu 8 Sep 2011, 12:32 pm

One of the professors here whom I am on very friendly terms with gave the library a really nice endorsement during the tour I did for his class, talking about how all the librarians here are really happy to help. “You might think,” he said, “that a librarian’s ideal day at work would be one [...]

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Thought of the week

Thu 8 Sep 2011, 8:27 am

Do “learning goals” or “learning outcomes” on their own make teaching better? Or do they just make it more assessable?

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Can’t sleep, class will eat me

Tue 6 Sep 2011, 6:26 am

I’m discovering why I like zero-prep teaching. That way, I’d talk to the professor, read the syllabus and assignment, and walk into class ready to discover, Phineas and Ferb style, what we were going to do today. Now, though, that I’m trying to work with learning goals and outcomes, and walk the LibGuides talk, and [...]

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