Category Archives: in my classroom

Beyond Course-Integrated Instruction: An Example from Linguistics

By Iris | Published: Monday, February 1st, 2010
I just finished teaching this term’s installment of one of my least usual classes. This is a class that takes the idea of course-integrated instruction to an even more integrated level. There are trade-offs, for sure, but it remains one of my favorite sessions to teach. The General Idea I show up for one class period of [...]
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Why Advanced Search?

By Iris | Published: Thursday, January 14th, 2010
I often teach Boolean searching to classes of students. There, I’ve said it. And I’ve decided not to be ashamed of that practice even though most of the literature I’ve read since library school has steadfastly lambasted the practice as outdated, unnecessary, and self-indulgent. Of course, I don’t teach it in every class, but sometimes there’s just [...]
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Turning Topics Into Searches

By Iris | Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The last couple of mornings I’ve spent time with a couple of different freshman writing seminars getting them ready to tackle the research component of their classes. Both times I tried a technique that I’d done once last year when I co-taught with a colleague of mine. It’s kind of like concept mapping… but with [...]
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Course and College Integrated Instruction

By Iris | Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
It has been an odd but inspiring week at work. It was odd because my department members and I took one entire day to sit down together and write a couple of documents on a very tight deadline. It was inspiring because one of these documents mapped our experiences with last year’s first-year seminars to [...]
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Learning about Instruction from Subject Librarians

By Iris | Published: Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The past week has served as a clear and present reminder of the value of having subject librarians who are committed to helping students in their disciplines engage with and even contribute to the scholarly work of their chosen areas of study. Partially prompted by a desire to train our new librarian, and partially driven [...]
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