Library Instruction 2.0: Building Your Online Instruction Toolkit

(cross-posted at Notes and Links)
2008 ALA Annual Conference
Rachel Bridgewater, Reed College
Anne-Marie Deitering, OSU Libraries
Karen Munro, University of Oregon
Links to our examples, and many more resources to browse can be found at our Library a la Carte page: Library Instruction 2.0
Web pages, CMS tools, LMS tools

LibGuides (SpringShare)
Library a la Carte (Oregon State University)
Haiku (web-based LMS, free [...]

Games, systems and a LOTW shout-out

I have definitely hit that “what am I forgetting before ALA” mode where it is not a matter of if I forget anything, but rather how important the thing I forget will turn out to be. I am deep in the throes of preparing to present this pre-conference workshop with these awesome people while [...]

Happy Birthday, Nature Precedings

Over at Peer-to-Peer, the Nature blog for peer reviewers, Maxine Clark points out that it is Nature Precedings’ first birthday (or one-year anniversary) today. Her post does a great job of pointing out how the web-based peer review part of this experiment has developed. I especially like her example of constructive review [...]

fun with words! pretty, pretty tagclouds for all

This is the paper Kate and I submitted along with our LOTW presentation, rendered into this gorgeous tagcloud by Wordle, a new tagcloud generator I saw today on Information Aesthetics.  I love tagclouds anyway – but this one lets you play with layout, fonts and colors in a way I’ve never seen before.  You can [...]

LOTW follow-up – from people who weren’t there!

Kate and I are still buzzing from the great conversation we had with the people who came to our session at LOEX of the West. It’s always an amazing and kind of surreal experience when you find out that other people are excited by the same ideas you are.
And it seems that other people [...]

LOEX of the West presentation, 2008

Peer Review 2.0: Tomorrow’s Scholarship for Today’s Students
LOEX of the West, Las Vegas

Anne-Marie Deitering & Kate Gronemyer

WEB 2.0 BACKGROUND
Five Web 2.0 themes — from the ACRL Instruction Section’s Current Issues Discussion Forum, Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World (Annual, 2006).
DANAH BOYD EXAMPLES
{Edit: These didn’t make it into the presentation, but they are examples of [...]

edupunk — positive, negative, vitriol or faith, what does punk mean?

I actually have no idea what the answer to that question is. I already mentioned the essay about the Clash which was about corporate rock, politics, and the reality of growing up in Canby, Oregon.
But there’s also this short movie that the Willamette Valley Film Collective made last year to compete in the International Documentary [...]