Category Archives: Instruction

How I make instructional library web videos and screencasts and how you can too

Posted on 13 January, 2012 by Chad

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 →

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YouTube and Fox News for an evaluation exercise

Posted on 22 February, 2010 by Chad

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 →

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Why use web video to reach your audience?

Posted on 11 February, 2010 by Chad

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 →

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Using video to address an immediate research need

Posted on 2 February, 2010 by Chad

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 →

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It’s a small world after all

Posted on 5 May, 2009 by Chad

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 →

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