The WGIL Room

The WGIL Room episodes:

• 11.30.2012

  Episode 16: MOOCs and Open Education

  Carleen, Dana and Mark try to dissemble and make sense of MOOCs and open education and the possible role(s) of libraries in that movement. Download Episode 16 (mp3: 57:20) or listen to the streaming version: Podcast Notes: A New Culture...

  
• 07.12.2012

  Episode 15: IL Standards

  The regular crew goes in-depth with information literacy standards. They declare the ACRL standards dead and look at other possible models for SUNYLA and how collaborating with the K-12 community in these efforts is needed. Download episode 15 (mp3: 49:52 min)...

  
• 06.27.2012

  Episode 14: Live at SUNYLA 2012

  Carleen, Dana and Mark are joined by Emerging Technologies Librarian Ken Fugiuchi of Buffalo State to discuss happenings at the 2012 SUNYLA Annual Conference, as well as issues on mobile technologies and much more. The audio levels are a little...

  
• 02.29.2012

  13: The Horizon Report

  This month Carleen, Dana and Mark dissect the newly released NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education; discussing some of it's issues, obstacles and emerging technologies, and the possible implications for libraryland. Download episode 13 (59 min) or listen to the...

  
• 01.26.2012

  WGIL Room 12: Invasion of the Blogs!!!

  via Flickr CC by cambodia4kidsorg Blogs and more blogs! The regular crew shares their fave blogs and contemplates changes that have undergone the blogosphere generally, and in instructional contexts, in recent years. A side quest in search of effective screencast...

  
• 01.11.2012

  WGIL Room 11: Late Reflections, Early Predictions and the Collaborative Effect

  Our regular crew of Carleen, Dana and Mark don their New Year's hats and sound makers and reflect on the year past and prognosticate on the coming year in the library instruction world. Topics include co-habitation with a writing center,...

  
• 11.17.2011

  WGIL Room 10: Got the One-Shot Assessment Blues

  Dana, Mark and Dunstan talk one-shot and Gen Ed assessments: experiments, shortcomings, follow-ups and existential musings about the utility of one-shot data. Download episode 10: (mp3: 56 min) or listen to the streaming version: Podcast Notes: Mark's Annotated Bibliography Assessment...

  
• 10.05.2011

  Episode 9: Dragging Them to Water (Motivating Students)

  Dana and Mark welcome new WGIL Room podcast participant, Dunstan McNutt as we delve deep into the issue of motivating students. Regular WGILer Carleen Huxley could not join us on the podcast this month, but we hope to have her...

  
• 07.25.2011

  Episode 8: RIP Session (Reputation, Identity and Privacy)

  Wherein the regular crew of Carleen, Dana and Mark discuss issues of online reputation, identity & privacy and if and how we can tackle these issues in one-shot sessions. We also meander off in the second half to discussions of...

  
• 07.08.2011

  Episode 7: SUNYLA Annual Conference Confab

  Better late than never! I apologize, especially to the participants about the lateness of getting this podcast up. It was recorded in June, but took me into July to post it. A small group of instruction librarians gathered one evening...

  
• 05.17.2011

  Episode 6: Pride and Ownership

  Wherein special guest Stacy Pratt, English professor at SUNY Jefferson Community College talks to us about working with her JCC librarians and several innovative assignments she's designed to equip her English students with research skills, and give them a sense...

  
• 04.15.2011

  Episode 5: Doing the Literacy Wiggle

  Wherein we discuss recent conferences (3 T's, ACRL, CiL) and dig our way into and among literacy landscapes.  We scour the topic with a metal detector, trying to unearth mysteries and problems behind various issues like critical thinking, reflective learning,...

  
• 03.08.2011

  Episode 4: LILAC in Winter (our 1st guests!)

  In this episode we welcome our very first esteemed guests, Michelle Costello and Kim Davies Hoffman, from SUNY Geneseo. We talk about instruction librarian professional development and their ACRL award winning Library Instruction Leadership Academy (LILAC) and other projects they...

  
• 02.08.2011

  Episode 3: Adaptability and Delicious Sunsets

  In this 3rd attempt at Episode 3 (yes, I managed to mess up the recording twice!), we discuss issues of online tools that go away, such as the now old news of Delicious and Google Wave. Issues of evaluating and...

  
• 10.29.2010

  Episode 2: Information Literacy, Assessment and "Catalogs Say the Darndest Things"

  Episode 2: Where we discuss all things assessment, teaching those darn catalogs, and much more! Download: WGIL Room Episode 2: Information Literacy, Assessment and "Catalogs Say the Darndest Things" (mp3, 63 min) or listen to a streaming version: Podcast Notes:...

  
• 09.07.2010

  Episode 1: E-Readers, E-Textbooks: Where are we headed? "We Have No Idea"

  Welcome to our first humble podcast! We will, for now (and due to time constraints), let our words speak for us. We are a work in progress (e.g., my crude audio editing skills!) but promise to improve as we go...