The WGIL Room

The WGIL Room

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The WGIL Room episodes

  • 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 of pride and ownership over their work (I apologize that my own mic is so hard to hear; not sure what happened - DL)


    Download Episode 6 (mp3: 55.00 min)

    or listen to the streaming version:


    Podcast Notes:
    • Using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education
  • Metal Health Will Drive You Mad: Mental Illiness and Insanity in Heavy Metal Music (abstract  located about halfway down the page on left side)

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  • 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, open learning and the transition from high school to college and the relationship/impact of technology on all of them.

    Download Episode 5 (mp3: 55.00 min)

    or listen to the streaming version:


    Podcast Notes:

    The Transliteracy Debate

    Carleen's ACRL Google Doc Collaborative notes:
    • Integrating Library, Instructional Technology, and Distance Learning
  • Information Deconstruction: Perspectives on Critical Information Literacy
  • Building Relationships through Embedded Librarianship
  • Paper Sessions
    • Dana's CiL conference notes

    Music attribution: Dancing On My Bed (The Pleasure Kills) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 
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  • 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 have worked on.

    Download Episode 4 (mp3: 60.02 min)

    or listen to the streaming version:


    Podcast Notes:
    • Library Instruction Leadership Academy (LILAC)
  • 2011 ACRL Instruction Section (IS) Innovation Award announcement
  • The 3 T's: Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology and Transliteracy Conference
  • Kim and Michelle's ACRL 2011 National Conference presentation description
  • Geneseo Psyc 251 Online Tutorial
  • Dana's Take on "Transliteracy"

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  • 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 adopting technology tools, adapting to the fast rates of change, backing up cloud-stored data, and some upcoming conferences are touched on.

    Download Episode 3 (mp3: 48.18 min)

    or listen to the streaming version:



    Podcast Notes:
    • Delicious Going Away News [TechCrunch]
  • Flickr rumors [NY Times]
  • Google Wave is Dead [ReadWriteWeb]
    • Memento App for Android
  • Backupify
    • Diigo Social Bookmark tool
  • Librarians and Failure
  • Librarians and the Echo Chamber
    •  SLOAN-C Conference
  • Computers in Libraries 2011
  • ACRL Annual Conference
  • SUNYLA Annual Conference
  • 3 T's Conference: Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology and Transliteracy
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  • 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:
    • Adventures in Library Instruction podcast
  • ACRL Immersion programs
  • Debra Gilchrist's 5 Questions (on assessment, pronounced "Gil-crist" I'm pretty certain, despite how I mispronounce it in the podcast)
  • Assessment-as-Learning (brief summary of Gilchrist's assessment writing formula from ACRL Immersion)
  • Dana's Information Need Checklist handout
    • SUNYLA WGIL wiki
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  • 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 along. Take a listen and let us know what you think in the comments!

    Download: WGIL Room, Episode 1: E-Readers, E-Textbooks: Where are we headed? "We Have No Idea" (mp3, 1:07:40)


    or listen to a streaming version:


    NEW! Listen to us via iTunes

    Podcast Notes:
    • Buffalo State Lib 300 Classroom Blog 
  • Empire State College Research Assistance pilot
  • Jefferson Community College Information Literacy Tutorial (in progress) 
  • SUNYLA WGIL wiki
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Monthly(-ish) podcast on library instruction, information literacy and emerging technology.