One of the major takeaways from this course was how to locate the theoretical frameworks that I can use to inform course design. I feel this is something that I (and others in my profession) struggle with, as […]

Thoughts on Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)
I’ve been more or less (usually less) active in my profession’s PLNs through our national organization (the Medical Library Association, MLA) and its regional […]

As I mentioned (briefly) in my FlipGrid comment, the notion of a digital community may not be as far-fetched as it seemed before the advent of social media and the pandemic. Before we all went into lockdown, I […]

I appreciate that this week focused on evaluating technology tools and making sure that we use the best tool for the situation. There are a number of technologies that are perfectly good at engaging learners, and […]

Week 4 Journal Entry
The module I’ve decided to create will be something for which I’ve already conducted a sort of needs analysis, and have designed as an in-person class. As a result, I can test it out when I […]

I remember one continuing education course I took at the beginning of my career as a health sciences librarian. I had never had formal training as an educator, and yet 60% of my job (at the time) involved […]

In keeping with the guiding questions we were provided this week, I’ve organized my reflection accordingly:

What did our readings remind me of?

The seminal works helped provide a “why” as well as “how” to […]

Module 1, Week 1 Reflection

As someone who had to learn on the job to be an educator, I was not acquainted with learning theories, except through the odd CE course I signed up for through work. I did attend a […]

The group interactions and assigned readings in this course helped me identify my own behaviors and why I act and react as I do when assigned to a group in any capacity. Of particular interest were the paradoxes […]

We’ve now progressed from identifying the paradoxes of belonging (identity, involvement, individuality, and boundaries), engaging (disclosure, trust, intimacy, and regression), and speaking (authority, dependency, […]

Engaging in a group is a delicate dance between maintaining one’s individuality and still contributing meaningfully to the group’s goals. Therefore, the theme for the paradoxes of engaging concerns how much doe […]

These past two weeks challenged us to think of the “Paradoxes of Belonging” coined by Smith and Berg (1997) and which are defined as the paradoxes of: identity, involvement, individuality, and boundaries. For […]

I first joined Virginia Commonwealth University as a librarian for the Health Sciences Library. In general, my position then and now entalis teaching information literacy: meaning that I show a student how to use […]

My motives for taking this course were not only for professional development, but to understand the current technologies used to deliver instruction. This course provided a good summary of various technologies, […]

My motives for taking this course were not only for professional development, but to understand the current technologies used to deliver instruction. This course provided a good summary of various technologies, […]

You may remember the screencast assignment I created to illustrate the searching process through the Tompkins-McCaw Library webpage. The screencast was a preview for my main project for this course. As the […]