Prezi beyond its intended use: exploiting the potential
I presented this with my sister Mandy at the 2012 Library Technology Conference at Macalester College. Our goal was to discuss the different ways you can use Prezi beyond the presenter standing in the front of the classroom technique. Mandy works in a small public library. I work in a small academic library. We tried to [...]
Teaching students to create presentations
Most of the professors I work with understand that I am willing to step outside the “intro to the library” library session. Sometimes they take advantage of that. The same professor who had me come into his course and demo a bad presentation and let the students live blog the results (explained here) has asked [...]
Supreme court cases
Once upon a time, I was an undergraduate politics major. Who knew that knowledge would be so useful in an information literacy session. I’ve talked about our introduction to speech class before. (If you aren’t familiar with the class, you might want to read that post first.) I thought I’d share with you what I [...]
COM101: Help needed
I need some help. I’m working on creating a few learning objects for our Introduction to Speech Communications class. Our course runs a little differently than most do. The library works with the class during the final two speeches of the semester: policy and values. The policy speech involves students giving a speech on a [...]
Topic suggestions–Choose your own style
Here are 2 examples of choose-your-own-adventure style topic exploration PDFs I’ve made. These were for Introduction to Research Writing (RES104). In this class, students write 3 5-7 page research papers, one in each of 3 major disciplines. Each semester the class focuses on a different region of the world (both to mix it up for [...]
Basic topic narrowing
A simple visual of how focused a topic must be for a 3-5 page paper, this prezi utilizes circles and the zoom function. This prezi is set for reuse. World Civ on Prezi
Race, Class, and Gender
One of my first prezis, this one is my lesson to a class of sociology students doing research for a class on race, class, and gender. It touches on primary and secondary sources as well as keywords versus subject searching. This prezi is set for reuse. Race, Class, and Gender on Prezi
Narrowing a topic by facet
This prezi was originally developed for a class with an open-ended assignment. Students were to choose a topic for a 4-5 page paper. This prezi helped them to think about how to narrow their topic using a facet approach. This prezi is set to reuse. Sociology topic narrowing on Prezi
Narrowing a topic
Alternatively titled: Does this paper make my topic look big?-How to narrow your topic to something doable Developed for our online Introduction to Research Writing (RES104), this prezi illustrates why narrowing a topic is important and ways to think about narrowing topics. This prezi is part of a suite of digital resources created for RES104. [...]
Crowdsourcing haiku
I do some weird things in my library instruction. I do not think I would be incorrect in saying my information literacy sessions are slightly unorthodox. We do some interesting things in our Introduction to Research Writing (RES104) course.This prezi focuses on introducing the geographic region and doable topics for social sciences, as well as [...]