Best Practices workshop

The last session of the TLT/ACRL Best Practices in Information Literacy webcast was yesterday afternoon, and I'm still kind of thinking over the content. This session focused on writing an IL plan and the types of assessment to consider. The series repeated a lot of what I learned in Immersion last year, but it was a useful review and the presenters pointed to lots of useful resources.

As a department, we're going to be doing some strategic planning this summer and I'm really hoping we can do some curriculum mapping and write an IL plan. To prepare for our planning, I'm reviewing my Immersion binder and reading a couple of books I just got--one on standards-based instruction and one on assessment for IL. I'm not sure how ambitious I want to be right off the bat, but I'm hoping to have at least a modest plan drafted before I start meeting with the English department in August. I'll need discipline faculty input and collaboration to make anything work, so I'm just getting familiar with the curriculum and getting settled until I can get some face time with them.

Welcome

This is my new space for all things IL. My current plan is to use this blog to focus on information literacy and, more broadly, instruction. It will probably take a while for me to get going on this, but I expect to be posting regularly by fall semester.