**This inspired my teaching!** Discussion in the virtual world, Second Life.
When: 16 February 2011, 12 noon Second Life time (which is 8pm UK time, see
http://tinyurl.com/47m8rjy for times elsewhere)
Where: Infolit iSchool in Second Life,
http://slurl.com/secondlife/infolit%20ischool/129/242/22/
What: What book, article, web resource or movie has inspired *your* teaching?
Please come along and share! Sheila Yoshikawa will start off by highlighting
results from a UK and a USA survey of what delegates at 2 key information
literacy conferences had found inspirational. However, ANY educator is welcome
to come and discuss what has inspired them.
Works named in the 2 surveys varied from fiction (Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy, Little Women) to educational classics (e.g. Freire's work) to practical
tutorials, to tales of inspirational individuals. This is different from the
usual teacher's reading list!
The list from the UK study is at
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/brown-davies-2009.pdf and the US list is in:
Brier, D.J. and Lebbin, V.K. (2006). “Ike loa: a list of influential books
shaping the instruction librarian’s teaching and learning philosophy”.
Reference Services Review, 34 (4), 607-643.
You need a SL avatar and the SL browser on your computer, to participate. This
is a Centre for Information Literacy Research event.
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Sheila Webber
Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Sheffield,
211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
0114 222 2641
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The information literacy weblog - http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
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