Leadership for Social Change 2019
I felt this lesson could have gone better. I faced difficulty because of the length of the lesson, a Zotero exercise that needs to be revised, and the number of students. All of this made room management a struggle. ...
University Preparatory Program 2019
I used a combination of the AASL Standards Framework for Learners and the ACRL Information Literacy framework to support these Chinese high school graduates. ...
English 2: Problem-Based Learning
This method solved a dilemma for me: reinforcing what students already learned, providing an intro for students who haven’t had instruction, and reframing but not repeating our efforts in English 1. ...
Adding a Low-Stakes Quiz to a Guest Lecture
I added the quiz to spark interest in exploring market research tools, as they are often cumbersome to use. ...
FYW: Using BEAM
The main goal of this session was to encourage students to incorporate research into their argumentative essays, an assignment with no required research. ...
Mechanical Engineering Senior Design
You can use images to evoke feelings even if you don’t consider yourself an artist. ...
Hayao Miyazaki: Film & Media Studies
We research to listen in the scholarly conversations around a topic and join the conversations with our own voice rather than to find answers to an assumed position/argument prior to the research. ...
History Seminar: Evaluating Primary Sources
Comparing three primary sources related to the same historical incident and modeling how to interrogate each source, in order to shed additional light on each account. ...
FYW: Evaluating Sources
I like to ask the students why they have chosen their particular evaluation criteria. It’s always interesting to see why students choose what they do. ...
University Preparatory Program
I've added this scavenger hunt to a growing list of alternative ways to introduce students to our spaces and services that are more engaging than a lecture or a tour. ...
International Relations Summer Program
We used the Cephalonian Method (planted student questions to spur engagement) and a Jigsaw Exercise (groups of students discuss/share back pieces of a whole) for this summer program of rising high school juniors and seniors in residency at Tufts for two weeks. ...
Queer Spaces
This was discussion-heavy and in many ways personal, so it probably would also work well for other topics or classes where the librarian has a thorough knowledge and interest in the topic. ...
Intro Econ
One of the challenges of being the social science data librarian is that often I'm in the position of needing to introduce basic research skills & information literacy, as well as data literacy skills at the same time. ...
REAL Seminar
The seminar leaders felt it was important for REAL students to have early exposure to the library. ...
FIRST Reflection
Wanted to find a way to reflect on the “big picture” of research and how/where the library fits in. ...
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