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Teaching Meetings: Providing a Forum for Learning How to Teach
(Emerald Insight, 1998)
"In 1996, librarians at the University of Washington Bothell Library gathered together their teaching librarians and the director of the Writing Center and began meeting on a regular basis to discuss issues of teaching and learning. In this article, Leadley addresses some of the larger issues surrounding teaching, specifically ...
Online Library Research Refresher Activities for Third-Year Transfer Students
(ALA Editions, 2021)
The University of Washington Bothell & Cascadia College Campus Library has recently developed online “refresher” activities for upper division students, allowing both transfer and non-transfer students to review important library research skills. This chapter describes how harnessing a required course with a substantial ...
Fancy Dinner Date: Conversing with Artists' Books to Spark Creativity
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021)
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Visual Literacy for Libraries: A Practical, Standards-Based Guide
(ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016)
This book provides librarians and instructors with the tools, strategies, and confidence to apply visual literacy in a library and higher education context. Readers will not only learn about ways to develop students' visual literacy, but also how to use visual materials to make their instruction more engaging. This book shows ...
Create and Use Images
(American Library Association, 2016)
Images can enliven projects of all types by adding dimension and immediacy to everyday and academic communications. Meaningful visual communication, however, can be a challenge. Too often, images are an afterthought in a project and end up detracting from, rather than enhancing, the ideas and information being presented. ...
Interpret and Analyze Images
(American Library Association, 2016)
This chapter sets forth a flexible process for interpreting and analyzing visual content that you can apply in your work with students as they begin to analyze the meanings of images and visual media. Use our adaptable, inquiry-based process in consultations, instruction sessions, and assignment design. Through systematic ...
Ethical Use of Images
(American Library Association, 2016)
Images carry core cultural and personal expressions and information, packaged in an engaging format that is easy to
use and share. This ease can raise challenging ethical issues in academic, personal, and professional realms. Solutions aren’t always simple or immediate, and the process of exploring ethical issues can be ...
Images and the Research Process
(American Library Association, 2016)
Images can prompt inquiry and discovery and help students move from their concrete personal experiences into the more
abstract area of library research. A deeper and richer understanding of visual content empowers students to think about ways to use images as part of their everyday iterative research processes. Teaching ...
Find the Right Images
(American Library Association, 2016)
It can be difficult to know where to look for images and how to navigate the millions of choices available. The resources, strategies, and activities in this chapter will build your repertoire of approaches to finding images and guiding students as they look for images. Finding images is not as simple as knowing where to look. ...
Cite and Credit Images
(American Library Association, 2016)
You've found that great image! Now what? You’ll need to cite or credit the image when you use it, and this chapter will help you
do it right. Citing images is a fundamental part of using images in academic work, but it remains a source of confusion and anxiety for students, faculty, and many of us working with them. Style ...