Information Transliteracy

This video of National Louis University's Gail Bush talking about information literacy in the 21st century I think dovetails nicely with some of our discussions in the last podcast (ep. 13)...

13: The Horizon Report

This month Carleen, Dana and Mark dissect the newly released NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education; discussing some of it's issues, obstacles and emerging technologies, and the possible implications for libraryland.

Download episode 13 (59 min)

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Podcast notes:

• NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education
• Gamification Dynamics: Identity and Story
• Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft
• Learning and Knowledge Analytics (George Siemens site)
• Marc Prensky's writings

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Overview video from NMC about their report:

WGIL Room 12: Invasion of the Blogs!!!

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Blogs and more blogs! The regular crew shares their fave blogs and contemplates changes that have undergone the blogosphere generally, and in instructional contexts, in recent years. A side quest in search of effective screencast tutorials is taken.


Download episode 12: (mp3: 49 min)



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Podcast Notes:

• Carleen's fave blogs:
• ACRLog
• Lauren's Library blog
• Information Wants to be Free
• Attempting Elegance
• Dana's fave blogs:
• In the Library with the Lead Pipe: fantastic team-blog with in-depth and well-thought out articles on all aspects of the library profession.
• Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning: MacArthur Foundation blog focusing on the intersection of technology and education and covers all levels of learning.
• Academic Librarian: blog of Princeton librarian Wayne Bivens-Tatum. Even though I don't always agree with his perspective on the mostly academic issues he tackles, his posts are always thought-provoking and well-written.
• Mark's fave blogs:
• Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton) is a strong library advocate. She is a public library director at San Rafael Public Library. Has incredible insight on the use of technology in libraries. 
• Seth Godin  is a great speaker and has good insight on marketing, new media and today's culture.
• Tame the Web, as mentioned on the podcast, Michael Stephens in a prof. at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State. He is great at explaining complex topics.
• ESC's Online Library YouTube channel
• JCC's Melville Dewey YouTube channel
• Do Screencasts Really Work? Assessing Student: Learning through Instructional Screencast

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WGIL Room 11: Late Reflections, Early Predictions and the Collaborative Effect

Our regular crew of Carleen, Dana and Mark don their New Year's hats and sound makers and reflect on the year past and prognosticate on the coming year in the library instruction world. Topics include co-habitation with a writing center, open access and open learning, and faculty-librarian collaboration.

Download episode 11: (mp3: 72 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• SUNY Empire State College Vision 2025 (focuses on Open Education)
• SUNY Central pushes shared president decision to July (Watertown Daily)
• This is NOT the future of librarianship (McMaster Univ.'s Jeff Trzeciak controversy)

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Library Podcasts

David Lee King has put together a great list of library-focused podcasts. I listen to most of them already but am now adding a couple more to my GReader - go check them out!

• Library Podcasts you Might Find Useful

WGIL Room 10: Got the One-Shot Assessment Blues

Dana, Mark and Dunstan talk one-shot and Gen Ed assessments: experiments, shortcomings, follow-ups and existential musings about the utility of one-shot data.

Download episode 10: (mp3: 56 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Mark's Annotated Bibliography Assessment Rubric
• SUNY General Education Student Learning Outcomes (Info Mgt and Critical Thinking req's are at bottom of list)
• RAILS (Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills)
• LibQUAL+
• SUNY Delhi Gen Ed Campus-Based Assessment Plan (scroll to page 89)
• Why E-Portfolios?

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Episode 9: Dragging Them to Water (Motivating Students)

Dana and Mark welcome new WGIL Room podcast participant, Dunstan McNutt as we delve deep into the issue of motivating students. Regular WGILer Carleen Huxley could not join us on the podcast this month, but we hope to have her back, along with Dunstan, next month!

Download episode 9: (mp3: 63 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Small, Ruth V., Nasriah Zakaria, and Houria El-Figuigul. "Motivational Aspects of Information Literacy Skills Instruction in Community College Libraries." College & Research Libraries 65, no. 2 (March 2004): 96-121. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed October 3, 2011).
• John Keller's ARCS Model and Motivational Design site
• What It Takes To Become A Scholar: helping students scale the taxonomy. The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2011, 5:24 pm
• Claire McGuinness, What Faculty Think–Exploring the Barriers to Information Literacy Development in Undergraduate Education, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 32, Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 573-582 (full-text for subscribers only - sorry :-)

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