Comments on: A Working Mom’s Library Day in the Life: Thursday – awesome day http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2010/01/29/a-working-mom%e2%80%99s-library-day-in-the-life-thursday-awesome-day/ A librarian, writer and educator reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Alyssa http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2010/01/29/a-working-mom%e2%80%99s-library-day-in-the-life-thursday-awesome-day/comment-page-1/#comment-188022 Alyssa Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:07:07 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/?p=1490#comment-188022 I've been reading your blog quietly for quite a while now, but you hit the nail ON THE HEAD with this quote, "trying to find the happy medium between over-preparing (which leads to boring) and under-preparing (which leads to screw-ups)." I totally feel like this when I'm teaching info. lit/library instruction too. It really is a balancing act between knowing what you're talking about to just playing off your audience of students to really feel the direction the class will go. I also think I want to try out your technique of having students come to the front and trying the searches. I'm always looking for new ways to engage my students and for assessment ideas! I’ve been reading your blog quietly for quite a while now, but you hit the nail ON THE HEAD with this quote, “trying to find the happy medium between over-preparing (which leads to boring) and under-preparing (which leads to screw-ups).” I totally feel like this when I’m teaching info. lit/library instruction too. It really is a balancing act between knowing what you’re talking about to just playing off your audience of students to really feel the direction the class will go.

I also think I want to try out your technique of having students come to the front and trying the searches. I’m always looking for new ways to engage my students and for assessment ideas!

]]> By: stevenb http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2010/01/29/a-working-mom%e2%80%99s-library-day-in-the-life-thursday-awesome-day/comment-page-1/#comment-188005 stevenb Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:48:40 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/?p=1490#comment-188005 I was interested to see that you invited your students to come up the lectern to conduct their searches. This is a technique I used a great deal when I was doing frequent instruction sessions in classrooms where the students were not at computers.You may be interested to read more about this experience and my advice on leveraging this technique. (if you don't have Emerald full text let me know and I can get a pdf for you): http://bit.ly/9Cj4ZJ I was interested to see that you invited your students to come up the lectern to conduct their searches. This is a technique I used a great deal when I was doing frequent instruction sessions in classrooms where the students were not at computers.You may be interested to read more about this experience and my advice on leveraging this technique. (if you don’t have Emerald full text let me know and I can get a pdf for you):
http://bit.ly/9Cj4ZJ

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