Clarence Maybee and Charlotte Droll from Colgate University described how their group re-invented themselves and worked together with professors and IT folks to enhance student learning and reach information literacy and media goals…
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Susanna Cowan and Michael Howser from the University of Connecticut presented “Make No Assumptions: Incorporating the Student’s Viewpoint to Improve Library Spaces, Services, and Resources” and outlined what survey techniques they used to find out what students wanted at the Library. What they wanted to know from users was “What would you change? What do [...] Now that the materials from the New Hampshire Library Association’s Spring 2010 Conference are available online, I wanted to mention a few of the instruction-related items that came up. After the keynote speech, I attended the Academic Librarians Roundtable, in which a small but enthusiastic group of librarians (including some great non-academic librarians) shared some [...] Jason from Salem State showed xtranormal, a web-based animated video tool, which he uses in his instruction classes. One movie he demonstrated was an introduction to his services. (He mentioned he had one on databases, but didn’t show it.) He showed the process of making an xtranormal video, including customizing the backgrounds, characters, and adding [...] Laura from Bryant demonstrated PollEverywhere, an audience response system that uses cell phone text messaging (rather than clickers) to poll audiences. Options include multiple choice and free text responses. Polls and poll results can be integrated into Powerpoint. One attendee noted that clickers only allow multiple choice types of questions whereas this offers free text [...] Julia from Boston College talked about how they use Mosio’s Text-a-Librarian service. She noted that they only staff it 10-5, but would like to expand it. Q: What kind of questions are you getting? A little bit of everything! A student was looking for an image once but also hours and those types of questions. [...] |
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