Comments for Notes for the UW infolit Community

Comment on 21st century literacies by Emily Wixson

Emily Wixson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:30:01 +0000

Very thought-provoking, Sarah. Books and journals remain my “core business” because that is the directive from most of my faculty. The 2008 CIBER Briefing characterizes, information seeking behaviors in virtual environments as horizontal, bouncing, checking, and viewing. How do we approach reading for comprehension given this kind of behavior? I think this shift has and will present serious challenges and opportunities to traditional information providers such as publishers and librarians.

(1)University College London (UCL) CIBER group, Information behaviour of future researchers; 2008, CIBER Briefing paper 9.

Comment on First-Year Conference: Large Lecture Courses by Emily Wixson

Emily Wixson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:48:02 +0000

One thing librarians can do is connect instructors in their disciplines with with the educational research in this area. I had 2 faculty members ask me for help finding ways to engage students in their large lecture classes. I sent them a short bibliography and offered to obtain the articles for them. enw

Comment on Digital Storytelling by mcsarah

mcsarah — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:35:25 +0000

the previous comment looks like an ad, but I checked out the site and it may be interesting, so decided to post it. Sarah

Comment on Digital Storytelling by David A

David A — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:55:18 +0000

Sarah,

I’m one of the founders of http://heekya.com and I wanted to mention our application as a great web/social media tool for storytelling.

It’s simple — everyone has a story, and Heekya wants to be the place where those stories are told.

You can:
-add photos
-add video
-add text
-add audio
and publish that story and share it with your friends, family, and the world.

We also add a few things to your story to make it even more compelling:

context: add time, location, or topical context to your story and

connections: the ability to copy or clone a story and tell it from a separate vantage point.

Please feel free to send me an e-mail if you have any questions — we’re soon entering our initial user testing stages and would love to hear your feedback.

David

Comment on Chancellor Martin Inaugural Address by Camille

Camille — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:34:47 +0000

Biddy Martin was a great advocate for undergraduate education at Cornell (see her State of the University speech in 2007 in particular towards the end: http://www.cornell.edu/provost/academicStateUniv2007.cfm) and was supportive of cross-campus collaboration between faculty, academic technologists, instructional designers, and librarians; a strong teaching culture based on authentic and engaged learning; and assessment based on outcomes but not governed by standardized testing. I was sad to lose her at Cornell but look forward to seeing what she will do at UW.

Comment on K-20 Information Literacy in Wisconsin by John Pederson

John Pederson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:31:13 +0000

Thanks for coming to play! One of the really cool parts of the job that Maddy and I have is in bridging WiscNet’s K12 and Higher Education membership to learn more about each other and explore possibilities. Frequenting Wisconsin’s supper club scene as we connect with our membership is fun too!

Last May I participated with COLAND in their strategic visioning summit. One of the major outcomes of that document was the notion of “unlimited bandwidth” to all of our libraries. While my heart and expertise still follows the track of information literacy in K12 education, WiscNet’s core strength is the ability to help libraries figure out this goal. If there’s anything we can do along these lines to help libraries, please call on us!

Comment on IT Strategic Planning: Early Priorities for Teaching/Learning and Outreach by Emily Wixson

Emily Wixson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:00:57 +0000

I, too, would be interested in knowing which four courses are taken by 80% of students in their freshman and sophomore years. The Team 4 reaccreditation report doesn’t reference its source for the statement “early courses taken by nearly 80% of the undergraduates” (p. 21). I’ve been unable to track that information down, having called the Registrar’s office and also left a voice message at Academic Planning and Analysis. Let me know when you find out.

Comment on Keeping up with what’s going on at UW – RSS Clipsheets by covelli

covelli — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:53:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I didn’t know about this resource and have found it very useful! strange that it took the leadership institute to find it. I hope you had a great experience in the “institute”. Phew!

Comment on Keeping up with what’s going on at UW – RSS Clipsheets by mcsarah

mcsarah — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:37:48 +0000

It seems like it would be a big contribution just to provide some kind of proxied link to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Comment on Keeping up with what’s going on at UW – RSS Clipsheets by Amanda Werhane

Amanda Werhane — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:24:16 +0000

I had wondered the same thing, so last year, I experimented with setting up some general alerts and was sharing items of potential interest with John Lucas at University Communications, with proxied links to articles.

It wound up being too time-consuming for me to keep this up, but would perhaps be appropriate for GLS Library Communications or GLS External Relations staff to work on?

He shared a couple of general guidelines:
* They don’t clip every single version of a story, unless the sources are extremely varied in their coverage.
* They don’t generally post alumni mentions, unless it is an obit, or their contributions related back to the institution in some way.

Thanks for the UW System link – hadn’t known about that one!