One thing I’ve always wondered about blogging is how people find time to do it. Despite my oath to myself to make it a short part of most days, or at least once a week, time is really slipping by. So I’ll just make a quick list of what’s occupying me these days that might be of wider interest and fill in some details as I can find the time. If you’d like more information about any of these, I encourage you to get in touch.
- TEL Grants: Technology Enhanced Learning Grants are administered by the Vice-Provost for Teaching and Learning to “enhance student learning by developing technology tools and
infrastructure that help us meet our challenges and support all aspects of the classroom of the
future.” I’m involved in two of these grants (along with other librarians and many other players), which are linked and relate to creating repositories for digital learning objects. I hope to share more information as these take shape, but my role in one of them is to serve on the Steering Committee (my current role is to draft an evaluation framework) and on the other I’m collaborating with liaison librarians (currently Erika Sevetson, and we’ll be meeting with Bob Sessions) to create information literacy learning objects related to the “OneHealth/OneMedicine” initiative. - Library Instructional Content: After meeting with the Library Course Page Steering (LCP) Committee, we started a group to discuss our vision for how the library’s instructional content will be presented in various learning environments. The group includes Jean Ruenger-Hanson (LCP, Library Web Site Team, Research Guides), Sheila Stoeckel (Vice-Chair, LILI Instructional Design Working Group), Diana Wheeler (Liaison between LILI Coords and LCP), Jeff Bohrer (Academic Technology, Learn@UW) and myself. I’m working on a statement of what we’ll create, but our goal is to help guide conversations and design decisions about this topic.
- Learning Spaces Event: I’m on the planning group for this November 13th, all-day event and am organizing the panel. Look for an announcement in the next few days.
Other than that, I’m going to many meetings and doing a lot of talks around campus (courses, WiscNet, SLIS classes). And doing some teaching of undergrads, of course.
