Our speaker could not make it. It would have been interesting to hear about how high school librarians are challenged with instruction. Different members of the class with experience in school libraries did a good job of sharing some of the issues that I was unaware of such as the standards the students have to meet and how much emphasis is placed on those. It seems the time for instruction by librarians has to compete with the classroom time when it could be used to enhance it. There are many pressures on school librarians that don't exist in academic or public libraries.
We also talked about copyright and Kenneth Crews
from Columbia U. We also talked about
using social media in instruction. There
are free downloads at Jing.com and you can do screen captures with voice overs
at screenr.com. There is a huge amount
of possibilities in using social media to enhance and support your instruction. There are many articles out there about
trends in instruction to use to keep current including one from ACRL in June
2012, "Top 10 Trends for Academic Libraries" that I have on my list to locate and
read. LibGuides are becoming more and
more popular as a way to support instruction.
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