Category Archives: Instruction
How I make instructional library web videos and screencasts and how you can too
Making videos for my library patrons have saved me time, allowed me to better serve my them, and enabled them to quickly find answers to their questions. I first started using web video for library instruction over 6 years … Continue reading
Filed under Instruction, Technology
YouTube and Fox News for an evaluation exercise
I’ve been doing an evaluation exercise with many of my English 151 classes for the last couple of years. It works pretty well, and I’ve had several instructors request that I repeat it again for their future classes. Many of … Continue reading
Filed under Information Literacy, Instruction
Why use web video to reach your audience?
Because it’s growing by leaps and bounds, that’s why! “The number of unique viewers of online video increased 5.2% year-over-year according to The Nielsen Company, from 137.4 million unique viewers in January 2009 to 142.7 million in January 2010.” I’d … Continue reading
Filed under Instruction, videos
Using video to address an immediate research need
This is a video that I put together last week to address a complaint that a faculty member had with her students’ research. The students were finding one particular resource and overusing and over-citing it in their projects. To address … Continue reading
Filed under Instruction, videos
It’s a small world after all
Last night I got an IM question from a student while staffing our IM reference service. She was in the stacks, but “was totally overwhelmed” with how many books we had and was very confused about how to actually find … Continue reading
Filed under Instant Messaging, Instruction, Libraries
