Instruction

Minitex News articles tagged with "Instruction" (60):

Four Web Tools to Trial with Your Students This Fall

Here are four web tools that just might make your teaching and learning experiences this fall a bit easier and engaging. Let’s start with two web tools to facilitate formative assessment.

Going Beyond Google

Recently, ALA’s American Libraries Live host, Dan Freeman, moderated a panel of four on the topic of “Going Beyond Google.” Panelists Joanna Burkhardt, Professor and Head Librarian at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Branch Libr

Savvy Digital Natives? Says Who?

In a recent perusal of the Chronicle of Higher Education, I ran across the article, “Confronting the Myth of the ‘Digital Native.’”   The title immediately grabbed my attention as the

It’s Complicated….Indeed!

With no shortage of research on youth and technology, and specifically social media and teens, dana boyd, herself not a stranger to the library community, wrote It’s Comp

Expanding Discussions in Library Instruction

In case you missed it or just haven’t gotten around to reading these titles about library instruction and information literacy, I encourage you to consider the theoretical and practical discussions that have taken place over the last few years in the world of library instruction.  If you do any

Learning from Stand-Up Comedians

Most of us have heard about the sage on the stage or the guide on the side.  But how many of you have heard about the guy on the fly?  No, that’s not right.  How about the teach underneath?  No, no, that’s not quite right either.  Anywho, in a rec

ELM Interactives for Grades K-8

Utilizing the Student Interactives available on the ReadWriteThink website, Minitex Reference Outreach & Instruction staff

Improve Your Instruction with Five-Minute Assessments

Instructional assessment is like… what? Going to the dentist? A detoxifying organic juice cleanse? Reviewing the details of your life insurance policy? All good things, undoubtedly, but not immediately satisfying.

Guide on the Side Tutorials for ELM Are Here!

You may have heard us speak at MEMO or MLA this fall detailing our new adventure in online tutorials with Guide on the Side (GOTS).  GOTS is an open source software code created by library staff from the University of Arizona Libraries: Mike Hagedon, senior applications systems analyst/develope

Just Add Water and Watch Research Grow

Research is hard work, and it takes time.  You can’t just “add water” and voila!