Category Archives: Instruction
The Good, the Bad, and the Reality: Life in the Classroom
This post came from the Aestiva Solutions quarterly newsletter, the Campfire. To subscribe, click here. As academic librarians, we all aspire to be excellent for our students. Some days we earn ourselves gold stars with knockout classroom visits that match professor’s goals and actively engage students. Other days we fall face […]
Continue readingLearning Outcomes: The First Instruction Step, Not the Last
This post came from the Aestiva Solutions quarterly newsletter, the Campfire. To subscribe, click here. We’ve all been there. It’s a Monday morning in mid-September and you open up your email to see an instruction request for Wednesday. THIS Wednesday. You have never provided a library instruction session for this course, […]
Continue readingTotal Participation Techniques for Your Classroom
This post came from the Aestiva Solutions quarterly newsletter, the Campfire. To subscribe, click here. This summer, Eric and Ruth found time for a little professional reading as they prepared to host summer camp for instruction and reference librarians. Their favorite item from the stack was a book by the […]
Continue readingInformation Literacy Assessment
This post came from the Aestiva Solutions quarterly newsletter, the Campfire. To subscribe, click here. It’s 48 minutes into your hour-long one-shot and you are almost at the end of another library instruction session. The temptation is always to teach one last thing, especially because that one last thing is […]
Continue readingInstructional Lesson Plans
This post came from the Aestiva Solutions quarterly newsletter, the Campfire. To subscribe, click here. Happy September! We hope your semesters are off to a great start. In the Fall of 2010, Ruth taught her first full semester class, “The World of Social Media.” That semester was a huge learning […]
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