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ARLIS/NA Teaching SIG April 23, 2020 | 12:00PM-1:00PM EST In lieu of the cancelled conference, the Teaching SIG held their conference meeting virtually via Zoom. 1. INTRODUCTIONS Present: 45 attendees, including current SIG Co-Moderators Anna Boutin-Cooper and Eva Sclippa. 2. VIRTUAL MEETINGS & MINI CONFERENCES Frequency: Originally suggested that we do a fall/winter, and spring/summer, but how often can we actually do this? This year, we did: two per year — one in the summer, one for annual conference. Liv — suggested that another time apart from the annual conference would be nice Stephanie Beene — would Teaching SIG be interested in joining with otherRead More →

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Save the Date! The Teaching SIG is hosting its first ever virtual mini-conference on July 25th at 2:00pm. Join Eva Sclippa, Shannon Robinson, and Anna Boutin-Cooper for a share out of notes and thoughts from sessions attended at this year’s LOEX Conference. Eva and Anna will also share out some updates for the Teaching SIG, including plans for future virtual mini-conferences. Join our virtual mini-conference via Zoom at this link: https://uncw.zoom.us/j/956303164. Please contact the SIG Co-Coordinators, Anna & Eva, with any questions or concerns!Read More →

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ARLIS/NA Teaching SIG Annual Conference Meeting – March, 2019 DISCUSSION: What would you most like from this SIG? Participants listed a variety of services and values the Teaching SIG could provide, including innovative pedagogy, a space to share successes and failures, lesson plans, syllabi, and instructional tools, a place to test out ideas, discuss, and brainstorm, and an opportunity to collaborate with other SIGs. The ideas of collaborating with the Critical Librarianship SIG and RISS were mentioned. Members expressed an interest in working with the Critical Librarianship SIG to support the application of crit lib in to pedagogy, and with RISS to explore the newRead More →

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First of all, a big thank you and congratulations to the organizers of the Salt Lake City ARLIS/NA annual conference! Those of us on the blog team who were able to attend are still discussing and processing everything we encountered there, and we imagine many of you are, too! The format of this post will be a little different from our recent posts, as we wanted to recap the Teaching SIG activities at the conference for everyone who couldn’t attend. As the biggest event was our sponsored workshop on active learning, however, this also seemed like a great time to touch on some of theRead More →

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Hello, Teaching SIG members! A general news and update post for you on some upcoming ARLIS Teaching SIG events: Interactive Panel Session, Wednesday, March 27, 4:10-5:30 pm: The Teaching SIG is hosting and planning an interactive panel session at the annual conference, “Inciting Learning by Doing: Bringing Active Learning into Your Classroom.” This session will introduce participants to a variety of active learning ideas and activities, and then we’ll spend the majority of the time working together and in small groups to help you develop active learning plans of your own. Teaching SIG Meeting, Thursday, March 28, 12:30-1:20 pm: For more conversation with your fellow SIG members and to discuss theRead More →

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Welcome to the inaugural post of the new ARLIS/NA Teaching SIG blog! We’re very excited to finally open up this resource for ARLIS members to share their teaching expertise year-round—and hopefully for many years to come. Let’s start by answering a few questions. What is this?: The Teaching SIG blog will serve as an informational hub for the ARLIS Teaching Special Interest Group. We’re planning to start out with an “Intro to Instruction” series of posts spread out over several months, covering many of the fundamentals of teaching in librarianship. Though many of these will be written by the blog team, we are very interestedRead More →