Enhance your library instruction class by using this hands-on guide and learn numerous unique active learning exercises. The effectiveness of active-learning approaches to instruction is well documented. What is needed now are proven, practical applications. Written for every librarian or teacher looking for such new and creative teaching techniques, Cybrarian Extraordinaire: Compelling Information Literacy Instruction fills the gap. Based on the author's own experiences, the book shares specific active-learning exercises created to make library instruction more engaging for a wide variety of audiences. Specifically, author Felicia A. Smith illustrates the process of creating "edu-tainment" activities designed to serve serious instructional goals in a manner that is both fun and effective. Her book provides detailed examples of innovative ways to engage students in mandatory library classes. Among other ideas, it explores the use of e-readers as learning tools and describes the planning and possibilities involved in creating classes in online worlds, such as Second Life. Of course, it also explains the evolution of Smith's Pirate Librarian, offering exercises that reinforced the "library material as buried treasure" theme.
- 122 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Cybrarian Roads to Information Literacy Instruction
- Chapter 2 Resident Librarian
- Chapter 3 Moving into the Virtual World: From Having No Life to Having a Second Life
- Chapter 4 Outreach Librarian and Wireless Reading Devices
- Chapter 5 Planning and Selling Instruction by the KISSS Preparation Method (Keep It Simple, Significant, Silly)
- Chapter 6 Evaluating Your Courses
- Chapter 7 Sharing the Present, Preparing for the Future
- Appendix A: Updated Storyboard (PPT)
- Appendix B: Journal Highlights and Evaluation Survey Results
- Appendix C: Sample Daily Syllabus and Written Class Activity
- Appendix D: Stall Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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