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.

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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.

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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 low so you may need to turn up your volume a bit to hear us (after the intro music, so you don't blow out your eardrums :-)

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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.

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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 tutorials is taken.

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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, open access and open learning, and faculty-librarian collaboration.

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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.

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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 back, along with Dunstan, next month! Download episode 9: (mp3: 63 min) or listen to the streaming version: Podcast Notes: Small, Ruth V., Nasriah Zakaria, and Houria El-Figuigul. "Motivational Aspects of Information Literacy Skills Instruction in Community College Libraries." College & Research Libraries 65, no. 2 (March 2004): 96-121. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed October 3, 2011). John Keller's ARCS Model and Motivational Design siteWhat It Takes To Become A Scholar: helping students scale the taxonomy. The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2011, 5:24 pmClaire McGuinness, What Faculty Think–Exploring the Barriers to Information Literacy Development in Undergraduate Education, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 32, Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 573-582 (full-text for subscribers only - sorry :-) Music attribution: Dancing On My Bed (The Pleasure Kills) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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 Google Plus, discovery layer search tools, and the lack of social components in library databases and tools. Download Episode 8 (mp3: 64.11 min) or listen to the streaming version: Podcast Notes: Choose Privacy (ALA video)Digital Tattoo (article about it: Goerzen, J., & Rosseel, T. (2010). Digital Tattoo: What's Yours?. PNLA Quarterly, 75(1), 66-69 - PDF - scroll to end of document for this article)Carleen's Slides on Facebook PrivacyInfocult blog (posts categorized as Info Warfare)Google+ Complete Guide (Mashable)Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy, Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson, College & Research Libraries Jan. 2011, vol. 72 no. 1 62-78. Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft (NY Times article) Music attribution: Dancing On My Bed (The Pleasure Kills) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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 during the recent  SUNYLA Annual Conference (several weeks ago) in SUNY Plattsburgh to discuss any and all things conference-y or instruction-y. I started the recording in mid-discussion, so please forgive the confusing start. A more formal introduction is buried a couple minutes into the recording.

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