The WGIL Room

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  • 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)

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    Podcast Notes:
    • A New Culture of Learning (book)
      • Q&A With The Authors of A New Culture of Learning
      • ARL Issue Brief: Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
      • MOOCs and the Future of the University
      • MOOCs: What role do they have in higher education?
      • The Year of the MOOC
      • Transformative Learning and Technology Literacies (Michael Stephens course)
      • When Freemium Fails

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      • 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)

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        Podcast Notes:
        • ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards
        • The Seven Pillars of Information Literacy
          • Quick Overview diagram layout
          • The Big Six Skills overview
          • UNESCO/IFLA joint Information Literacy statement
          • UNESCO Media & Information Literacy
          • Libraries and Transliteracy blog
          • An Analysis of Information Literacy Education Worldwide


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          • 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 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 :-)

            Download episode 14 (mp3: 49:36 min)

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            Podcast Notes:

            • SUNYLA 2012 Presentations
            • Pew Research hub: Libraries



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            • 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)

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              Podcast notes:
              • NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education
              • Gamification Dynamics: Identity and Story
              • Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft
              • Learning and Knowledge Analytics (George Siemens site)
              • Marc Prensky's writings


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                Overview video from NMC about their report:





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              • WGIL Room 12: Invasion of the Blogs!!!
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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.


                Download episode 12: (mp3: 49 min)



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                Podcast Notes:
                • Carleen's fave blogs:
                  • ACRLog
                  • Lauren's Library blog
                  • Information Wants to be Free
                  • Attempting Elegance
                  • Dana's fave blogs:
                    • In the Library with the Lead Pipe: fantastic team-blog with in-depth and well-thought out articles on all aspects of the library profession.
                    • Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning: MacArthur Foundation blog focusing on the intersection of technology and education and covers all levels of learning.
                    • Academic Librarian: blog of Princeton librarian Wayne Bivens-Tatum. Even though I don't always agree with his perspective on the mostly academic issues he tackles, his posts are always thought-provoking and well-written.
                    • Mark's fave blogs:
                      • Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton) is a strong library advocate. She is a public library director at San Rafael Public Library. Has incredible insight on the use of technology in libraries. 
                      • Seth Godin  is a great speaker and has good insight on marketing, new media and today's culture.
                      • Tame the Web, as mentioned on the podcast, Michael Stephens in a prof. at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State. He is great at explaining complex topics.
                      • ESC's Online Library YouTube channel
                      • JCC's Melville Dewey YouTube channel
                      • Do Screencasts Really Work? Assessing Student: Learning through Instructional Screencast

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

                        Download episode 11: (mp3: 72 min)

                        or listen to the streaming version:


                        Podcast Notes:
                        • SUNY Empire State College Vision 2025 (focuses on Open Education)
                        • SUNY Central pushes shared president decision to July (Watertown Daily)
                        • This is NOT the future of librarianship (McMaster Univ.'s Jeff Trzeciak controversy)

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                        • 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)

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                          Podcast Notes:
                          • Mark's Annotated Bibliography Assessment Rubric
                          • SUNY General Education Student Learning Outcomes (Info Mgt and Critical Thinking req's are at bottom of list)
                          • RAILS (Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills)
                          • LibQUAL+
                          • SUNY Delhi Gen Ed Campus-Based Assessment Plan (scroll to page 89)
                          • Why E-Portfolios?

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                          • 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 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
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                          • 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 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
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                          • 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 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.

                            Download Episode 7 (mp3: 69.00 min)

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                            Podcast Notes:
                            • The Courage to Teach, Parker J. Palmer
                          • Other writings by Parker Palmer
                          • ALA Freedom to Read Statement
                          • National Library Week
                          • lower east side librarian blog
                          • Additional podcast participants:
                            • Mike Daly, FMCC
                          • Darcy Gervasio, Purchase
                          • Barbara Kobritz, TC3
                          • Dunstan McNutt, Delhi
                          • Jim Nichols, Oswego
                          • Scott Richmond, Fredonia 

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                              Monthly(-ish) podcast on library instruction, information literacy and emerging technology.