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Institute for the Future Report, “Future Work Skills 2020″

As I was wrapping up the semester grading semester projects and looking back on the numbers from our first-year instruction program, I heard about the report from the Institute for the Future entitled “Future Work Skills 2020.”

What I appreciate about the report is its focus on skills, as laid out on their site:

Many [...]

Winter Meeting @ University of Vermont

For more information from the meeting visit the NELIG website.

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Bubble Over: Filter Bubbles, Internet Personalization, and You, Sarah Faye Cohen, Andy Burkhardt, Michele Melia (Champlain College)

This presentation simulates an instruction session with the Concepts of Self Class for 1st semester freshman. This instruction session is the first in-class experience freshmen [...]

Winter Meeting @ Tufts University

For additional information and handouts from the meeting, visit the NELIG website.

Welcome & Introductions

NELIG Secretary-Elect Kathrine Aydelott (Phillips Academy) welcomed the group and introduced our host, Laurie Sabol.

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Beyond the One Shot: Excerpts from a Faculty Information Literacy Collaborative, Karla Fribley & Christina Dent (Emerson College)

In May 2010 and May 2011, [...]

Winter Meeting @ Keene State College

For more information and to access materials and handouts, visit the NELIG website.

Welcome & Introductions

Elizabeth Dollinger welcomed everyone, introduced herself as 2011-2012 co-chair of NELIG. Best part of NELIG is members – thanked the “teachers” for today. New format today, so please let us know your thoughts. NELIG is [...]

Winter Meeting at Western New England University

Presentation 1:  Gathering Background Info – Credo v. Wikipedia, Jennifer Ditkoff from Keene State College presented a lesson that she and other librarians from Keene conduct with students in freshmen writing intensive courses who are working on their final 20 page paper. She does this activity with them to help them work through their topics [...]

Winter Meeting @ Providence College

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Scene: Fairfield Edition: Orienting First-Year Students to the Library Using Interactive, Multimedia Game Play, Laura Weber & Jessica McCullough, Fairfield University.  Workshop attendees were divided into 3 teams and played a library version of the game Scene It.  Each team watched a short [...]