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Learning 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, […]

Total 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 […]

Information 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 […]

Instructional 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 […]