Educational Activities
Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
- INLS 795: Professional Field Experience (3 semesters): Organized paperwork, responsible for in-person seminars, contact point for students,follow-up with field sites and faculty mentors.
- INLS 515: Consumer Health Information (2 semesters): Created syllabus and bibliography, guest lecturer; updated bibliography.
- INLS 554: Cultural Institutions (1 semester): Backup lecturer, grading, contact point for students, created bibliography and suggested readings.
INLS 890.096 Evidence-based Library & Information Practice (3 semesters): This class was conceived when I took Connie Schardt's excellent course in Evidence-based Medicine (Evidence-based Medicine and the Medical Librarian). As my chosen semester project, I created a 6-module tutorial that later became core material for the full-semester course co-taught with Dr. Joanne Gard Marshall. The course has evolved over three semesters, based on feedback and a deepened understanding of Evidence-based practice overall. Among the materials created for this course: EBL tutorial, bibliography, course syllabus, class plan, rubrics, glossary, and videos (see below), critical evaluation tool for bibliometric research studies (syllabus and sample lesson are available through my online teaching portfolio).
Question Building (video, 17 minutes). This is one of a series of videos created as supplemental materials for the Spring 2009 course on Evidence-based Library and Information Practice, INLS890.096. The course is conducted using Skype, with Blackboard content management. Question building is the first of a series of five steps, and is done according to any of several templates.
Other videos in this set include The Evidence Pyramid (concerning the concepts of rigor, bias, and reproduceability in research), The Structured Abstract (on the creation of, and rationale for, structured abstracts), and Finding Our Foundation (presentation of a study I conducted to determine whether records can be consistently retrieved the CSA LISA database using research-related terms).
Alliance Library gets a Second Life: Library services and health information in a virtual world
Teleconference on Second Life, with Lori Bell. NN/NLM Regional Medical Libraries, June 5, 2007.
Evidence-based library and information practice
Brown bag session UNC Health Sciences Library, March 2005.
A morning with the TRLN doctoral fellows: Evidence-based library and information practice. Duke University March, 2005.
Co-Instructor, with Joanne Gard Marshall Evidence-based Library & Information Practice, semester-length course. UNC-Chapel Hill SILS: INLS210-096, taught Fall 2005, Fall 2008 (online), and Spring 2009 (online, offered to WISE schools).
Learning break: Evidence-based library & information practice. Duke University Medical Center Library, August 4, 2005.
Learning break: Consumer health services, parts I & II. Duke University Medical Center Library, August 11 & November 3, 2005.
Selected consumer health education (in Second Life):
PubMed for YOU, Parts 1 and 2 Second Life Consumer Health Librarianship (offered to health librarians) Moving Toward Wellness: Smoking Cessation Looking for Health: A Workshop on Finding Good Health Information Roots & Wings: Finding Children's Health Resources Come See What We've Got! A Workshop on Finding Vision Resources Looking for Health: Finding Quality HIV/AIDS Information
Tutorial created for OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Library & Resource Center, Peoria, IL
Consultant, November 2003 – June 2004 LSTA Funded Grant Project
This project entailed the provision of tablet PCs to nursing staff on patient units. Unit-specific resource pages listed frequently prescribed medications, common procedures, and other nurse educator-provided information for use with bedside patient education. Krames patient education documents were converted to PDF form, and made available from unit pages for printing as handouts. I also created a modular tutorial to help staff learn about using and troubleshooting the tablet PC, as well as searching for specific content and reaching out to the medical library for further support.