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Bringing virtues to information literacy
Ever since I became interested in information literacy, I’ve felt that there needs to be more to it than merely teaching students the skills to be able to locate and access information. This is borne...
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My favourite video-creating apps
I enjoy trying out the various video-making apps for ipad that I read about in education-focussed blogs, or discover via my children, Ms’ 11 and 13. I like thinking about how the videos could be used...
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Stepping outside the box: information literacy via Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of those resources that librarians and educators discourage students from using for research purposes. Fair enough – after all, students need to learn to source their information...
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Big questions and outrageous claims about information literacy
I love being challenged to think about the bigger picture, to question my assumptions and respond to provocative claims made with the intention of stimulating thought and comment. This is what...
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Thoughts about a Digital Literacy Scholar’s Lab
Inspired by recent conversations with colleagues, as well as reading around interesting subjects such as digital humanities research, curation, data management and elearning technologies (with a focus...
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Planting the seeds of a digital literacy education program
I am currently designing some short library sessions for high school students who will be visiting our campus in 2014. The sessions are part of a larger university-wide aspirational program for...
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Connected learning and the library
The idea of ‘connected learning’ encapsulates a lot of the current thinking around teaching and learning in libraries. Connected learning incorporates the existing learning theories that have been...
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Gamifying the library with SCVNGR
SCVNGR is a location-based game app for mobile devices that is about going places, doing challenges, and earning points. It is used in a variety of contexts, including conventions, conferences and...
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Supporting students from low socio-economic status backgrounds
Last week I attended a workshop which disseminated the findings from a study on supporting the needs of low SES students. Entitled “Effective teaching and support of students from low...
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Is there room for a maker space in the academic library?
A while back I wrote a post exploring the idea of a library-centred digital literacy scholars lab, a place of learning and collaboration between disciplines and areas of expertise or interest around...
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An illustrated guide to being a Learning Services Coordinator
Along with others in my workplace I have been preparing a short presentation for my colleagues to inform them about what is involved in my role as a Learning Services Coordinator in the academic...
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Playing with games in the library
There’s no doubt that games can be very powerful learning tools, and at my institution, as at most higher education institutions, there is momentum to introduce games-based learning into the...
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